“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My goal as an Inquiry Team Mathematics Teacher is to use mathematics as a tool to help my students understand the world we live in today so they can successfully design their own future.
Davy Dijoux
Inquiry Team Mathematics Teacher
Northwest Prep Charter School
2590 Piner Rd
Santa Rosa CA
707-522-3320
northwestprep.org
Inquiry Team Mathematics Teacher
Northwest Prep Charter School
2590 Piner Rd
Santa Rosa CA
707-522-3320
northwestprep.org
******* OUR SPRING 2014 PROJECT IS FOCUSED ON ECON/BUSINESS ********
see BENCHMARK TABS above for weekly assignments
PBL MATH CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Mathematical Practices (applied and practiced throughout all topics)
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
TOPICS OF INQUIRY WITH CURRICULUM STRANDS
ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ENGINEERING
PROGRAMMING
AGRICULTURE
see BENCHMARK TABS above for weekly assignments
PBL MATH CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Mathematical Practices (applied and practiced throughout all topics)
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
TOPICS OF INQUIRY WITH CURRICULUM STRANDS
ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
- Ratios & Proportional Relationships
- The Number System
- Expressions & Equations
- Geometry
- Statistics & Probability
- Interpreting Categorical & Quantitative Data
- Making Inferences & Justifying Conclusions
- Conditional Probability & the Rules of Probability
- Using Probability to Make Decisions
ENGINEERING
- The Real Number System
- Quantities*
- The Complex Number System
- Vector & Matrix Quantities
- Seeing Structure in Expressions
- Arithmetic with Polynomials & Rational Expressions
- Creating Equations✭
- Reasoning with Equations & Inequalities
PROGRAMMING
- Interpreting Functions
- Building Functions
- Linear, Quadratic, & Exponential Models*
- Trigonometric Functions
AGRICULTURE
- Modeling
- Geometry
- Congruence
- Similarity, Right Triangles, & Trigonometry
- Circles
- Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations
- Geometric Measurement & Dimension
- Modeling with Geometry