The A-Maizing Corn Lab: A Geneticist's Biography Leads a Mathematics Exploration

Autor/inn/en	Cwikla, Julie; Patterson, Marcelle Dessommes
Titel	The A-Maizing Corn Lab: A Geneticist's Biography Leads a Mathematics Exploration
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 11 (2006) 9, S.421-427 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0839
Schlagwörter	Probability; Graphs; Genetics; Mathematics Instruction; Middle School Students; Secondary School Mathematics; Learning Activities; Computation; Data Collection; Pattern Recognition; Data Analysis; Mathematics Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Grafische Darstellung; Humangenetik; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Lernaktivität; Data capture; Datensammlung; Mustererkennung; Auswertung; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz
Abstract	This article describes an innovative lesson that uses the biography "Barbara McClintock: Alone in her Field" (Heiligman, 1994) to integrate genetics, literature, and mathematics as a context for students to investigate patterns on Indian corn. This two-day lesson requires students to estimate, collect data, identify and describe patterns, represent their data using bar graphs, use Punnett squares, and investigate probability. (Contains 9 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10