Optimizing: Security Cameras

A little background

  • In case you are trying the MARS MAP Classroom Challenges for the first time, it is recommended that you read the Brief Guide for teachers and administrators before you get started.
  • At the start of the lesson, students think individually about their responses to the questions set.
  • In the same small groups, students evaluate and comment on sample responses, identifying the strengths and weaknesses in these responses and comparing them with their own work.
  • In a whole-class discussion students compare and evaluate the methods they have seen and used.
  • In a follow-up lesson, students spend ten minutes reflecting on their work and what they have learned.
  • Additional resources for this lesson include: l52_optimizing_security_cameras_slides_beta_ms_jam.ppt

Objectives

  • To help you assess how well students are able to analyze a realistic situation mathematically.
  • To help you assess how well students are able to construct sight lines to decide which areas of a room are visible or hidden from a camera.
  • To help you assess how well students are able to find and compare areas of triangles and quadrilaterals.
  • To help you assess how well students are able to calculate and compare percentages and/or fractions of areas.
70 mins 6.RP.A.3 6.RP.A 6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.2 6.G.A 6.G.A.2 6.G.A.1 6.G.A.3 K-12.MP.1 K-12.MP.2 K-12.MP.3 K-12.MP.4 6.RP.A.3A 6.RP.A.3B 6.RP.A.3C 6.RP.A.3D 6.G.A.4
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