My 8th graders really enjoyed it. My cooperating teacher enjoyed it. My University Supervisor even observed me on Day 3 of the project. The lesson was a little more chaotic than I had planned, but my supervisor complimented me on the project. He even asked for electronic copies of the files to send to some math teachers in China.
Since I had already done this project with 8th graders, I thought my Algebra 1 students would be able to whiz right through it. I was wrong. I had to teach many of my students how to read a ruler.
Rounding to the nearest quarter inch was a disaster. And, the questions students asked me made me feel more like a geography teacher than a math teacher. Me: Class, today we are going on a road trip. Me: Hawaii is an island. That means it is surrounded by water.
Student 2: Why does Hawaii look so weird? Custodian who just happens to be emptying the trash at this point: Hawaii is a series of small islands.
Custodian: No. When I was in Hawaii, we traveled between the islands by taking ferries. Student 1: Is Washington, D. Student 2: No, Washington, D.
Student 1: I think this map is wrong. Me: Why? Student 1: Oklahoma City should be above Tulsa. Me: Yes. Nashville is in the U. I required my students to write both the city and the state they were visiting on their assignment. One student wrote that she was traveling to New Jersey, PA.
I ran across a YouTube video that someone created to walk students through completing the Road Trip Project. I thought I would link it here in case it was of use to anybody.
E-mail me at mathequalslove at gmail dot com, and I'll gladly attach the files and send them to you! This is an excellent project, but can you please add some color to the rest of the website. Thank you! How did you determine the numbers for the vehicles in day 2? I am thinking of updating them before I use this project…. Hi Ashly! This is designed to be an individual project. Every student will have a different route and thus different answers. Good luck! Let's think about what units our answer will be in.
The units for gas mileage is miles per gallon. In this instance, "per" means we will divide. So, you will need to take the number of miles the car will go and divide by the number of gallons of fuel the car will require to go that many miles.
Hope this helps! Thanks for sharing…. This is a great project! I used it this year with my students and plan on using it again. It provided them with a good amount of practice solving proportions as well as some good insight on what it might take to plan a real trip. At the end of the project they created a poster or PowerPoint and presented their road trip to the class.
I love reading your blog and seeing how you make math fun. Glad your students enjoyed the project! I like the idea of creating a poster or PowerPoint to present their trips!
My students were so excited to share their trips with their classmates. They were especially interested in seeing who ended up taking the longest trip and the most expensive trip! My math team was just getting ready to create a project very similar to this. I am so glad I stumbled on this before we re-created the wheel! Thank you for sharing!!!! You have saved us a lot of time. Oh wao! Thanks for sharing this pretty great project here. I will recommend it to my students and plan on using it.
I really love to read your posts and feeling how much you make maths fun. I am currently doing this project with my classes, but I've ran across a few issues. Therefore, I have a few questions for you: 1. Did you give them a budget or just let them spend however much they wanted? Did you give them a maximum of days they could be gone? I have several students spending more than 2 months on this trip.
Oh my! Tomorrow, they will be presenting these trips to the class. I may spend Monday going over the average family income for our city and compare the vacation expense to their income. Any suggestions?? I've never given students these constraints, but I've often wished that I did. My students have done the same thing! I'd love to revise the project one day to involve a budget. Great project! I was looking for a project for my students to complete this unit and I can't wait to present this!
I love your blog…thank you for ALL the wonderful ideas! Can you please give me the answers to step 8 so i can teach my students. My email is uneedagurley1[at]gmail. This was an awesome exercise for my remedial math class. The children enjoyed it. And I folded in the aspect of searching for activities including costs in each city where they chose to stop. Can you please send me your email address.
I have a question regarding part one and I want to make sure I can explain it to my students. Thank you. We saw this and thought it would be absolutely wonderful to use with our students!
Our issue is we cannot open or download any of the links. We aren't entirely sure what is going on. Do you think you could send an email with the documents and materials? My email is tfrazier godleyisd. We would greatly appreciate this and are excited to try this out! Hello their Sarah I'm having trouble with this project if you could plzz send me the answers like all of it plzzz: this is due Friday my grade is at a D right now just plzz I'm sorry for bugging like asap lol thank you.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Contents hide. Sarah Carter. Can take up to one week to complete academic days. Road Trip Project This summer your family has decided to take a road trip.
That was a lot of fun but project based learning is hard work and frankly the way that project is designed — it took a lot of cash to fund the purchase of a bajillion glue gun sticks foam felt cardstock popsicle sticks etc. The lights were collinear points set.
Janelle printed a layout of the mall to map out their route. Last year I did a project based learning unit for midpoint and distance. This is a great end of year project for 5th 6th 7th or 8th grade math. It is your job to decide what cities to visit and calculate how far you will travel. So I created this pre-algebra road trip project. Math Word Problems Decimals. Pack your bag activity. We came across plenty of stoplights on the road. The black dots represent the doors to the mall or stores.
You will obviously need Algebra in order to have fun. Made up of points no thickness of width. Using a ruler they drew out their route on a US map. Each student chose 5 cities to travel to on their road trip. The Basics of Geometry In this unit we will explore the basic building blocks vocabulary and classifications of geometry.
Answer Key complement It requires kids to use computers in class while budgeting for a fun road trip. This project is a great year-end activity for. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. There are 3 main components to this summer project.
Map your Mathematical Road Trip Answer questions on pages 2 -5 of the packet to find the coordinates of your position as you travel from New Jersey to California and back again. It can also be broken up into the individuals tasks to give as an end of unit ass.
We were offered money imaginary money to create our own super cool road trip of a life time. We came across differently shaped road signs. Be sure to show all of your work and box your final answer.
You may only visit cities that are included on the given map. Use the map to answer the following questions. Cities all outside the state of Virginia before returning home to Ashburn. You will start in Ashburn and travel to five other US. A regular hexagon c.
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