Monika Vasili
Resources created by Monika Vasili
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- Careers in real estate and customer service: Working with central tendency
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.8
- In this lesson plan, students compare the mean and median salaries of two different careers and answer questions analyzing the data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Commercial and industrial designers: Working with volume
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.7
- In this lesson, students calculate the volume of a variety of boxes, and calculate the change in volume that would result from a change in the boxes' dimensions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Couriers and messengers: Real-world problem solving
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.4
- In this lesson plan, students take on the role of couriers and use indirect measurement to plan a delivery.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Frequency tables
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.1
- In this lesson for grade seven, students discuss how frequency tables are used in various careers. Students use survey data collected in class to make their own frequency tables and present them to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey, Carol Taylor, and Monika Vasili.Adapted by Sharon Abell and Barbara Turner.
- Graphic designers: Working with scale
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.3
- In this lesson, students will create a design on centimeter graph paper and enlarge it by creating a grid on a piece of poster board. Students will learn discuss the use of scale factor in the careers of graphic artists.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–9 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Guidance counselors: Working with scatter plots
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.10
- In this lesson plan, students read about the life earnings of people with a variety of educational backgrounds and visualize the information using a scatter plot and line of best fit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Guidance and Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Interior designers: Working with right triangles
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.2
- In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of right triangles to create a design for an abstract work of art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Landscape architects: Working with indirect measurement
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.5
- In this lesson plan, students use indirect measurement to discover the height of the school's flagpole. Students learn about careers in landscape architecture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Pilots and flight engineers: Working with slope-intercept form
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.1
- In this lesson, students compete in relay races to complete a series of problems involving slope-intercept form. Students discuss the importance of mathematical reasoning and teamwork in aviation careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Travel agents: Working with linear functions
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.9
- In this lesson plan, students create linear equations to choose between two rental car companies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Woodworkers and finishers: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.6
- In this lesson, students participate in a furniture-finishing scenario in which they draw and calculate the area of a set of tabletops with different shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
