Hi. I received two responses to the request below. Thank you to both
responders. Our math teacher was very interested in the 5 Minute Mysteries.
Here are the two replies:
Have you looked at Ken Weber's Five minute mysteries?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894716905/sr=1-1/qid=1155257914/ref=pd_bbs
_1/104-9726421-8143101?ie=UTF8
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894716905/sr=1-1/qid=1155257914/ref=pd_bb
s_1/104-9726421-8143101?ie=UTF8&s=books> &s=books
Are you familiar with the board game Clue? It is a murder mystery to be
solved. You have a few clues as do the other players in the game and you
must use logic and deduction to figure out who did it with what weapon andin
what room. Not a book though it might work.
Davinna Artibey
Teacher Librarian
Denver Center for International Studies
Denver Public Schools, CO
Davinna@comcast.net
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From: Davinna Artibey [mailto:davinna@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:16 PM
To: (LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU)
Subject: TARGET: HIGH: Short Story for Math Unit
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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