Standard: Math

08 Feb 2025

Equations and Equine (7th Grade)

August-June

Equations are helpful to figure out the best options for horse care and management.  Students will explore different aspects of stable management to create equations related to the cost of care.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 7.EE.2 In a problem context, understand that rewriting an expression in an equivalent form can reveal and explain properties of the quantities represented by the expression and can reveal how those quantities are related.
  • 7.EE.4 Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.
  • 7.EE.4 a. Solve word problems leading to equations of the form px + q = r and p(x + q) = r, where p, q, and r are specific rational numbers. Solve equations of these forms fluently. Compare an algebraic solution to an arithmetic solution, identifying the sequence of the operations used in each approach.

Vocabulary:

equation, rational number, expression, operations, sequence, equivalent, quantities, algebraic, arithmetic

08 Feb 2025

Math and Manure (7th Grade)

August-June

Taking care of horses is a full time job.  Students will explore and calculate what it takes to run and maintain our stables and horses.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 7.RP.1 Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas, and other quantities measured in like or different units.
  • 7.G.4 Work with circles.
    • Explore and understand the relationships among the circumference, diameter, area, and radius of a circle.
    • Know and use the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
  • 7.G.1 Solve problems involving similar figures with right triangles, other triangles, and special quadrilaterals.

Vocabulary:

quantity, area, fraction, inequalities, equation, ratio, unit, conversion, rates, percentage, circumference, diameter, radius, right triangle, quadrilaterals.

08 Feb 2025

Calculating Horse Care: Ratios (6th Grade)

August-June

Math is used everyday in horse care and management.  Students will use horses, the tools equestrians use to care for them, and the places horses live and work to explore ratios and equations.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 6.RP.1 Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities
  • 6.RP.2 Understand the concept of a unit rate associated with a ratio
  • 6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real world and mathematical problems

Vocabulary:

Ratio, numerator, denominator, rate, unit, percentage, conversion, equivalent, multiples, fraction, division

08 Feb 2025

Calculating Horse Care: Polygons & Volume (6th Grade)

August-June

Math is used every day in horse care and management.  Students will use horses, the tools equestrians use to care for them, and the places horses live and work to explore polygons, volume, and equations.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 6.EE.2 Write, read and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers
  • 6.G.1 Find the area of polygons and apply these techniques in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems
  • 6.G.2 Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths of the prism. Apply the formulas V = l⋅w⋅h and V = B⋅h to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

Vocabulary:

Polygon, volume, equation, base, height, area, triangle, rectangle, square,      hexagon, cube, 2D, 3D

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