Barbara Strange
Barbara Strange has taught sixth grade for 32 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Guilford College in 1972 and her masters degree from UNC-Greensboro in 1978. She taught in Guilford County Schools for most of her career, at Northwood Elementary and Ferndale Middle School. For the last six years, she has taught at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School system.
Resources created by Barbara Strange
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- Biologists: Working with probability
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use theoretical probability to predict genetic outcomes, and will understand how mathematical probability is used in biological careers.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Food service professionals: Working with fractions
- This lesson for grade six demonstrates how an understanding of fractions is important in the food service industry. Students will use operations with fractions to determine how many recipes to make for a given scenario.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- General contractors: Working with area
- This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students design a floor plan for a house and use calculations of area to arrive at a cost estimate.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Home renovation: Working with area
- In this lesson for grade six, students will work together in cooperative groups using the internet to calculate the cost of finishing a basement.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Law enforcement careers: Working with decimals
- In this lesson for grade 6, students will perform basic math operations with decimals and will understand how math is used in law enforcement careers.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Marketing careers: Working with scale drawings
- This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students create a scale drawing of a toy car and reflect on how math can be used in marketing careers.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Medical careers: Working with probability
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use probability to predict the likelihood of occurrence of two unrelated health conditions and will understand how math can be applied to careers in mathematics.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Meteorologists: Working with data analysis
- This lesson for grade six introduces students to careers in meteorology and engages them in meteorological data analysis.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange. Edited by Julie McCann.
- Phi: The divine proportion
- The "divine ratio" is valued by designers, artists, and architects because of its interesting and and unique properties. In this lesson for grade six, students learn about this ratio and use it to create a work of art.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Sales careers: Working with percents
- In this lesson for grade six, students will understand how to perform operations with percents by using commission rates for various sales careers to calculate salary.
- Format: activity (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
