A
TELECOLLABORATIVE MATH PROJECT ABOUT BACKPACK SAFETY
"Get
Off My Back!"
is an online collaborative math project for middle school students
from around the globe. The focus of our project is to explore the
affects that heavy backpacks have on the growth and development of
student posture and to identify safe backpack weights. This project
will join students from other places in a common investigation about
backpack safety while studying about statistics, graphing, percentage
and ratio.
Classes
will complete the project activity and submit their data, which will
be posted on the project web site. Teachers will be able to
access the collective data to have a larger sample group from which to
make observations and draw conclusions. Those interested in
joining "Get Off My Back!" should contact project
coordinator, Linda Dyck up until
April 30, 2005.
