Greenville High School

Real World Applications in Math

Statistics Through Project Based Learning

Article by Nadia Boyea

If you were to walk into Ms. Gannon's third period class, you would find Juniors Emily Vetere, Alyssa Latta, Nicole Torrey and Senior Abbey Vincent working on hands-on projects for their class, Statistic Through Project Based Learning. This class is made up entirely of projects, all specific to what the students want to explore.

Currently the class is working on creating programs for the calculators. Their most recent finished project was creating a speaker from a styrofoam cup (link below).  When asked what the rest of the year holds, Ms. Gannon explains that, “ depends on the student's interests. Some of the previous projects have been analyzing data from a school lunch survey and even making a chair from corrugated paper, a material commonly used to create cardboard boxes.”

Ms. Gannon is most looking forward to exploring topics with the class that they might not have already learned about, such as coding and STEM. She says the most important part of this class is seeing where the math the students have previously learned is applied in the class. She finds that learning to work as a group and problem solve is also very important to this class.

This course is open to anyone who would like to join. It is not a Regents course but it is a math course that is an option if you would like to continue taking math. Ms. Gannon says there is no part two of this course but she welcomes students that aren't Seniors this year to come back next year to talk about problem solving.

Styrofoam Cup Speaker : http://msgannonmath.weebly.com/path-to-stem.html

Other Projects : http://msgannonmath.weebly.com/projects.html

Statistic through PBL Page : http://msgannonmath.weebly.com/stats-pbl.html

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