[LM_NET] TARGET: HIGH: Short Story for Math Unit

[Davinna Artibey <davinna@COMCAST.NET>]

Hi.  A 9th grade math teacher at my school would like to use a short story,
preferably a mystery, as a vehicle to teach students about gathering and
analyzing data.  She has been using Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the
Pendulum" but says it takes students a full week just to understand the
story.  Her students in the past have done activities with actual pendulums,
trying to predict if the protagonist could really be freed by the rats
before the pendulum hit him.

 

Do any of you have any suggestions for a simpler short story she could use
that has math project potential?

 

Thank you,

 

Davinna Artibey

Teacher Librarian

Denver Center for International Studies

Denver Public Schools, CO

Davinna@comcast.net

http://cisdenver.org/

 

 


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