Planning a Trip

SCORE Mathematics

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Planning a Trip

Introduction: Students will plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their choice.

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Prior Knowledge: Students should know how to use a search engine(s) and be able to print in color from the Internet.

Grade Level: 4-7; 8-12.

Task: Students should be asked to give you the names of from three to five cities. After checking and approving their choices, you should give them the reminder of the assignment. The main assignment is to make a brochure to travel to the chosen cities. It should be of a quality that it could be used by a customer to decide if they would like to take this trip. It should include fares for planes, trains, rental cars etc., cost of housing and meals, points of interest to visit in the cities.

Resources: Access to the Internet with search engine(s) and a color printer.

Process: Students should use search engine(s) to find the information for the cities, downloading to a color printer. They should put the information into a brochure of a quality to be used by a customer.

Learning Advice: Students will learn the use of search engines and printing from the Internet. The student will put together a brochure that could be used by a customer or for a trip they or their family plan to take.

Evaluation:

4 Quality useful to a customer
3 All information present, format could be improved
2 Lacking complete information
1 Lacking most of the information

Extensions:

Conclusion: Students have had fun with this lesson and turned in some high quality brochures.

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California Mathematics Academic Standards:

Grade 4:
Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Students make decisions about how to approach problems.
1.1 analyze problems by identifying relationships, discriminating relevant from irrelevant information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns

2.0 Students use strategies, skills, and concepts in finding solutions.

2.4 express the solution clearly and logically by using the appropriate mathematical notation and terms and clear language; support solutions with evidence in both verbal and symbolic work

3.0 Students move beyond a particular problem by generalizing to other situations.

3.3 develop generalizations of the results obtained and apply them to other circumstances

Grade 5:
Number Sense
2.0 Students perform calculations and solve problems involving addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication and division of fractions and decimals.

2.1 add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals; add with negative integers; subtract positive integers from negative integers; and verify the reasonableness of the results

Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Students make decisions about how to approach problems.

1.1 analyze problems by identifying relationships, discriminating relevant from irrelevant information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns
1.2 determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts

2.0 Students use strategies, skills and concepts in finding solutions.

2.6 make precise calculations and check the validity of the results from the context of the problem

3.0 Students move beyond a particular problem by generalizing to other situations.

3.2 note method of deriving the solution and demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the derivation by solving similar problems

Grade 6:
Number Sense
2.0 Students calculate and solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

2.3 solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems, including those arising in concrete situations, that use positive and negative integers and combinations of these operations

Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Students make decisions about how to approach problems.

1.1 analyze problems by identifying relationships, discriminating relevant from irrelevant information, identifying missing information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns
1.3 determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts

2.0 Students use strategies, skills and concepts in finding solutions

2.2 apply strategies and results from simpler problems to more complex problems
2.4 use a variety of methods, such as words, numbers, symbols, charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, and models, to explain mathematical reasoning
2.5 express the solution clearly and logically by using the appropriate mathematical notation and terms and clear language; support solutions with evidence in both verbal and symbolic work
2.6 indicate the relative advantages of exact and approximate solutions to problems and give answers to a specified degree of accuracy

Grade 7:
Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Students make decisions about how to approach problems.

1.1 analyze problems by identifying relationships, discriminating relevant from irrelevant information, identifying missing information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns
1.3 determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts

2.0 Students use strategies, skills, and concepts in finding solutions.

2.1 use estimation to verify the reasonableness of calculated results
2.5 use a variety of methods, such as words, numbers, symbols, charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, and models, to explain mathematical reasoning
2.6 express the solution clearly and logically by using appropriate mathematical notation and terms and clear language; support solutions with evidence in both verbal and symbolic work

NCTM 5-8:

STANDARD 1: MATHEMATICS AS PROBLEM SOLVING
STANDARD 2: MATHEMATICS AS COMMUNICATION
STANDARD 5: NUMBER AND NUMBER RELATIONSHIPS
STANDARD 7: COMPUTATION AND ESTIMATION
STANDARD 10: STATISTICS

NCTM 9-12:

STANDARD 1: MATHEMATICS AS PROBLEM SOLVING
STANDARD 2: MATHEMATICS AS COMMUNICATION
STANDARD 10: STATISTICS
STANDARD 12: DISCRETE MATHEMATICS