connections for the students. Allow them to realize the importance of mathematics in the creation of our world as well as our current lives. I have tried a few times to create projects around math in the everyday world and have always felt like they fell flat. Students seemed to always struggle with the concept of math in our world. Somehow the Fibanacci Sequence comes out and students become fixated and confused by the aspects of it. They just could never really build the connection and learn anything. This year I decided to try once again, with my head held high and expectations booming to see what I could do with this topic. I wanted the students to see the beauty of how math has shaped our lives. I decided to change the focus from all math to just Geometry in our World. This is a project that I actually had ongoing throughout the entire first term. I gave them four general topics and allowed them to choose a theme for each topic. They then had to find out what they could about the topic in that theme and give me 4 examples of their findings.
Here is the link to the criteria: Geometry in our world
