Product Description
Mathalicious writes real-world math lessons that support inquiry-based teaching and challenge students to think critically about the world. Lessons use middle and high school mathematics to explore questions like:
- Is there an upside to negative emotions? (Integers, Absolute Value)
- How is wealth distributed, and how should it be? (Middle School Statistics)
- In which Major League Baseball (MLB) stadium is it hardest to hit a homerun? (High School Quadratics)
How It Works
Mathalicious lessons are intended to be used in a whole-class setting so that students have opportunities to discuss various approaches to problem-solving, present their reasoning, and critique the reasoning of others. Lesson take 100-180 instructional minutes to complete.
Mathalicious lessons can work with any other core or supplemental resources. Teachers and schools beginning their transition to more inquiry-driven teaching should use one Mathalicious lesson at the launch of each major instructional unit to motivate and contextualize several concepts to be developed throughout the unit.
This meaningful real-world exploration, or anchor task, serves as a reference point throughout the entire unit. The time commitment for implementing this high-impact resource in this way is 2-3 instructional days per six weeks. It’s recommended that schools which are ready to “fully” adopt CCSS’s approach to rigor implement three lessons per unit: one at the beginning, one at the middle, and one at the end. This implementation approach utilizes 6-9 instructional days per six weeks, and comprise a full third of the instructional experience.