Research Project Ninth Grade Math

Algebra I PROJECT

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MAJOR TEST GRADE

Your first Algebra project is due NO LATER THAN _______________

Your project will be a poster and report about a mathematician. You may select a mathematician from the list below or select another one of your choosing (PYTHAGORAS, EUCLIS, and ISAAC NEWTON are NOT acceptable).

This project will count as a major test grade, and you can earn more than 100 points so lets go for the points!!!!!!

1. For this project you will be doing some research about a mathematician that you have selected.

2. In order to share your findings with the entire class, you will produce a poster which highlights the mathematician’s name with dates of birth and death prominently displayed.

3. You might include a portrait or photocopy of what the mathematician looked like.

4. Other items of interest are achievements in mathematics with a brief explanation of what the mathematician accomplished.

5. Accomplishments outside the field of mathematics should also be included.

6. Be sure your poster is easily read and eye-appealing.

The following is a list of possible mathematicians for the mathematics history project.

This is a required project and it is not OPTIONAL!!!!!!

MATHEMATICS HISTORY PROJECT

GRADE SHEET

NAME:_____________________________ DATE:_______________

1. Poster completed and turned in before or on the due date of _______________.

0 – 20 points _________________

2. Poster contains 5 different important facts about the mathematician.

10 – 20 points _________________

3. Poster is very neat, easy to read, and shows examples of his/her achievements.

10 – 20 points _________________

4. Poster shows at least one accomplishment outside the field of mathematics.

0 – 10 points _________________

5. The student had good eye contact during the presentation. The presentation was made without reading to the class.

5 – 15 points _________________

6. The student was able to show or tell how this mathematician’s invention or achievements are still being used today.

5 – 10 points _________________

7. The written report was a one page summary of the information collected about this mathematician.

10 – 15 points _________________

TOTAL POINTS / GRADE _________________

REMEMBER THIS IS A TEST GRADE!!! IT IS A REQUIRED PROJECT

Appollonius of Perga
Archimedes
Babbage, Charles
Banneker, Benjamin
Bhaskara
Bolyai, Janos
Boole, George
Cardano, Girolamo
Chatelet, Cu Emilie
Descartes, Rene
Einstein, Albert
Eratosthenes
Euler, Leonhard
Fermat, Pierre De
Fibonacci
Galilei, Galielo
Galois, Evariste
Gauss, C.F.
Germain, Sophie
Hopper, Grace Murray
Hypatia
Khayyam, Omar
Kepler, Johann
Khwarizmi, Al
Kovalevsky, Sonya
Leibnitz, G.W.
Lovelace, Ada
Napier, John
Noether, Emmy
Pascal, Blaise
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
Somerville, Mary Fairfax
Tartaglia, Niccolo
Thales
Torricelli, Evangelista
Viete, Francois

Literary Criticism Senior English Mrs. Maule

Okay, Guys, can't use the Internet to do this research. You will have to use these online databases. :-) Can't find literary criticism on the 'Net...if someone writes a literary criticism ...they want to get paid and published, not just put it on the Net for any one to see. So, we have these two databases you can use...they only last 30 days and then they disappear. These two databases are FANTASTIC!!!!!! Good luck!!!!

FreeTrial password is welcome go to Literature Online then select criticism and reference before you search

Another free trial..... Literature Resource Center

Get Real! Unit Performance Project (Sakmar and Cupp)

GET REAL!

Unit Performance Project

What could be more representative of literary realism than a newspaper?

In groups of four, students will create a Realism Register consisting of an editorial; a lead (feature news) story (including a headline); an entertain-ment/home section (which could include the following: review of plays, community events, church socials, wedding information, comics, or recipes); obituaries; an advice column; a crossword puzzle; a weather report; a sports section (baseball was the only major sport around at this time…it began in 1876); and an arrest blotter. News items will be based on Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as well as on other events typical of the time period (Civil War/ post Civil War era).

The following roles will be assigned in each group:

one group member will write an editorial; another will be responsible for a lead story; and the third and fourth members will divide up the remaining seven feature categories (three stories each). All group members will be responsible for the final layout, finished newspaper, and presentation.

I will provide you with newspaper material, but you need to have the columns, etc. in line and in order for your final layout.

Get creative! You may have to research the time period (life in small towns, sports history, early newspapers, etc.) or transform fictional events from the novel to use in your newspaper. Your may choose to have a photographs to accompany the lead article and other pieces of writing.

Roundtable presentations—Finished newspapers will be posted around the room, and we will circulate to observe and read them.

Due Dates

1. Thursday, Nov. 16^th -- Pick groups and assign roles. Turn in to Mrs. Sakmar

2. Thursday, Nov. 30^th-- First draft due at the beginning of class. This will be for each person in the group.

3. Monday, Dec. 11^th-- Final draft and presentations due.

Newspapers from the 1800's

Trial for Historical Newspaper's Database password is welcomethen scroll down and select ProQuest Historical Newspapers - K-12 Edition: New York Times