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My name is Beth Brinsfield 6th Grade Math Teacher Harlan Elm. (18 years) Technology Comfort level---step above a novice

Brainstorm Gasoline prices--Practice basic Math skills in a real world setting. How many gallons in your parents gas tank? How many miles will the tank last for? Price per mile? Price per tank? Range of gas prices?

Compare gas prices to other liquids.. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp265-01.shtml

Charting historical gas prices. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp076.shtml Using an inflation calculator-online.

Gas prices in other countries. http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_price/?postversion=2008050109 http://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/2008/05/gas-price-math.html

Nutrition Cool Math games http://www.biglearning.com/big-learning-math-activities.htm http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=2

Fuel Project 1. Students will survey their parents/guardian. (Homework)(Independent) -How large is your gas tank? -How far can you drive on one tank? -How often do you fill up? 2. Students will use the survey answers to figure out (Homework)(Independent) -Miles per gallon (division/subtraction*/decimals) -Cost per week, month, and year for fuel. (Multiplication/addition*/decimals) 3. Students will compare and discuss fuel costs with their partners or group.(Group) 4. Students will compare Fuel costs from other countries using (Group/partner) http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_price/?postversion=2008050109 Students will choose 10 countries to compare to the US. 5 Countries from the most expensive list and 5 from the cheapest list. (Subtraction/decimals) (Homework/Class work) This list can be printed if computers are scarce. 4. Students will choose one of the following activities after viewing (Partner/Ind) http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasoline_inflation_chart.htm This graph can be printed if computers are scarce. a. -What was the average cost of gas in 1975? - What is the inflation adjusted price of gas in 1975? - What is the difference? - Using your survey data, if your parents could fill their car at the 1975 gas price: calculate the miles per gallon, weekly expense, and monthly expense. - Compare 2008 expenses to 1975 prices. b. -What was the average cost of gas in 1999? - What is the inflation adjusted price of gas in 1999? - What is the difference? - Using your survey data, if your parents could fill their car at the 1999 gas price: calculate the miles per gallon, weekly expense, and monthly expense. - Compare 2008 expenses to 1975 prices. c. Choose a year. ??  -What was the average cost of gas in? - What is the inflation adjusted price of gas in? - What is the difference? - Using your survey data, if your parents could fill their car at the ?? gas price; calculate the miles per gallon, weekly expense, and monthly expense. - Compare 2008 expenses to ?? prices. 6. Students will create charts/graphs comparing the cost of a gallon of gasoline to gallons of other liquids -- mouthwash, house paint, fruit juice, etc. using adds from newspapers or online adds. (Group/Ind) Students will choose 5 different products to compare to gasoline. http://www.acmemarkets.com/eCommerceWeb/LandingPageAction.do?action=begin 7. Students may use http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ A free online tool to make the charts/graphs. (Addition/Multiplication/Division/Graphing)