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Goals:

This WebQuest is designed to allow 9th grade Math and Business students the opportunnity to apply percent increase and estimation skills in real life application of planning a budget and utilize that information to reasearch and plan an event. They will then utilize their knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft word to create and present a proposal.

Objectives:

The students will:

• Work in a cooperative group
• Analyze data and use knowledge of percent increase to predict future costs.
• Create a budget based on analysis of data.
• Research content on provided links.
• Plan an event utilizing research.
• Create Excel worksheets for proposed and actual budget.
• Analyze budgets utilizing Excel graphing capabilities.
• Create a proffessional PowerPoint slide show on planned event and budget including the appropriate use of slide layouts/transitions, sound, text and moving images.
• Present proposal for event supporting reasons for choosing event specifics and costs.
• Complete a written analysis of project that includes mathematical reasoning used and a discussion of project process and outcomes.

Pedagogy Components:

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

Learning Styles

Sense and Meaning

Bloom's Taxonomy 

Curriculum Standards:

The material covered in this WebQuest is geared to incorporate a variety of New Jersey's Core Curriculum Content Standards. Listed below are the 9-12 standards covered.

• Mathematics Standards:
  • Standard 4.3 (Patterns and algebra)
    • C. Modeling
      • 1. Use functions to model real-world phenomena and solve problems that involve varying quantities
        • Linear, quadratic, exponential, periodic, and step functions.
        • Growth/decay and change in the natural world
        • Applications in mathematics, biology, and economics.
  • Standard 4.5 (Mathematical processes)
    • A. Problem Solving
      • 1. Learn mathematics through problem solving, inquiry, and discovery.
      • 2. Solve Problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts (cf. workplace readiness standard 8.3)
      • 5. monitor their progress and reflect on the process of their problem solving activity.
    • B. Communication
      • 1. Use communication to organize and clarify their mathematical thinking.
        • Reading and writing
        • Discussion, listening and questioning
      • 2. Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others, both orally and in writing.
      • 4. Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.
    • D. Reasoning
      • 2. Use reasoning to support their mathematical conclusions and problem solutions.
      • 4. Rely on reasoning, rather than answer keys, teachers, or peers, to check the correctness of their problem solutions.
    • E. Representations
      • 1. Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
    • F. Technology
      • 1. Use technology to gather, analyze, and communicate mathematical information.
      • 2. Use computer spreadsheets, software, and graphing utilities to organize and display quantitative information.
      • 4. Use calculators as problem-solving tools (e.g., to explore patterns, to validate solutions).
• Technological Literacy Standards
  • Standard 8.1 (Computer and information literacy)
    • A. Basic Computer Skills and Tools
      • 3. Construct a spreedsheet, enter data, use mathematical or logical functions to manipulate and process data, generate charts and graphs, and interpret the results.
      • 5. Produce a multimedia project using text, graphics, moving images, and sound.
      • 9. Merge information from one document to another.
    • B. Application of Productivity Tools
      • 12. Integrate new information into an existing knowledge base and communicate the results in a project or presentation

Primary Author: E. Kresky, J. Apple, M. Force