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Goals of Midland School’s Mathematics Program |
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 Upon completion of Midland School’s math program students will have developed comfort, facility, and enjoyment working with numbers. They will understand the motives for learning particular mathematical concepts. While students will have developed organized and rigorous patterns of thinking and problem solving, they will also be able to take academic risks through trial and error. Not only will Midland students have the confidence to compute mentally and manually but they will also be able to intelligently use technology to solve real world problems. They will appreciate the importance of units of measurement to interconnect disciplines and provide significance to computations. Students will gather and analyze data to model real-world phenomena and will be capable of extracting meaning from large quantities of graphical and tabular information. Facility with mathematical systems is necessary to understand and interpret current social, political and scientific information reported in newspapers, magazines and professional and scientific journals. In all of these areas, students will develop the ability to neatly and clearly present written work..
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A Dog's Life: GPS Tracking of Our Local "Wildlife" |
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Fall2010
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As many Midlanders know, the dogs on campus have the best life. While everyone is sitting in class, working on a research paper, or taking a test, the dogs are out playing all day, getting attention from a number of students, chasing squirrels, barking at the bell, or simply taking a nap. In Statistics, our students tracked five different dogs to uncover their secret lives. The five dogs are all owned by students and they were tracked from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday since these days are roughly the same in the Midland daily schedule. The GPS data was then uploaded into Google Earth in order to visualize the dog's day. The GPS tracks were also analyzed using the Fathom Dynamic Data program by Key Curriculum.
(Click on a dog to see his or her day.)
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