Math+Town

Mathematical Town

Students will be responsible for developing a town that is is mathematically based. The students are the tourism director for their town and they must attract people to come to their town. This project is based for 7th and 8th grade students. The students will be required to develop their town based on one of the main math topics that they have learned about throughout the school year. All of their town must be math centered and they will be required to have a mathematical theme. The students will be required to develop different aspects of their town using brainstorming and creation tools. The students will have to show that they understand the importance of many geometrical properties, as well as The students will be using the following tools for this project:

Google Docs

The students will be required to answer brainstorming question on google docs. Google Docs are a great way for students and teachers to share information with each other. Teachers are able to create their own pages and put them online. Students can then take them from online and then they will be able to edit the document for their personal use, but not effect the document for other people.

Voicethread

Students will be using Voicethread to create a 30 second advertisement for their town. The students will have to be front and center for this video presentation and they will be required to promote at least five different enticing places for tourists to come to visit within their town. The students will not need props for this video, but they will be encouraged to include them if it helps with their presentation.

Wordle

Students will be required to create a word cloud that defines what their town is in a nutshell. The students will be told that their mathematical town's tourist department will be using this as promotional fliers for their town to entice people to come to their town. The students will be developing a unique wordle word cloud to have people gain interest in their town. The students will be required to create the word cloud that contains at least 7 adjectives or ideas to get people interested.

Here is an example of the Wordle I created for my math city, Equationville:

Google Presentation

Students will be required to develop a presentation on their town. The students will be required to create a presentation that the tourism board will use in order to develop an interest in their towns. The students will be required to have this presentation created with at least 5 slides highlighting the different aspects of their town. The students will be required to talk about attractions, restaurants, and unique features of their town. The students will be required to base it all on mathematical topics that they have talked about throughout the year.

Blogger

Students are also expected to post all of their projects onto a blogger account that they are to create. The students will post the things to a Blogger account in order to share that with their classmates and teacher. The students can see the examples posted by the teacher as well at the following blogger account: