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- Biologists: Working with probability
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.7
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics and Science)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Career skill: Writing expressions and equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.9
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will translate between natural language sentences and mathematical equations. Students will discuss how this skill may be useful in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Careers in banking: Working with exponential growth
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.9
- In this lesson, students use exponential growth to solve problems related to careers in banking.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- 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.
- Food service professionals: Working with fractions
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.2
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Free falling: Working with radicals
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.4
- In this lesson, students solve problems involving radicals and discuss the importance of radicals in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- General contractors: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.10
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- 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.
- Home renovation: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.9
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science
- In this unit, students will be involved in hands-on, inquiry activities that integrate various subject areas in order to learn and apply concepts of food chemistry and nutrition.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- 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.
- Law enforcement careers: Working with decimals
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.1
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance and Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Linear equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.2
- In this lesson for grade seven, students calculate monthly bills for cell phone plans using linear equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Marketing careers: Working with scale drawings
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.6
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Medical careers: Working with probability
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.8
- 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: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Meteorologists: Working with data analysis
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.4
- This lesson for grade six introduces students to careers in meteorology and engages them in meteorological data analysis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.Edited by Julie McCann.
