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Counting people PoM-Jan-'15. You are a journalist and you have to write a press release about a mass meeting in your city |
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 World of Work  Becoming a(n)... journalist  Context press and mass media Role Students work as journalists that have to write a press article about a mass meeting in a big public area. Activity Working to create a plan to estimate how many people participate in a demonstration or a mass meeting. Product Short press article, giving their estimation and arguing mathematically about how they worked it out. |
Abstract Children start counting from a very early age. Counting is a key mathematical competency in Early Childhood Education and the first grades of Primary School. However, counting goes beyond school and it is an essential activity in many professional fields such as biology, ecology, geology, medicine, journalism, sociology… In contrast with the ‘world of school’ where counting is normally an unproblematic and straightforward activity, in the ‘world of work’ counting can become a really challenging task. In this activity, students will have to devise their own plan for counting the number of people in a big public area. Documents
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Inquiry Learning Inquiry Learning Dimensions - Exploring situations - Planning Investigations - Experimenting systematically - Interpreting and evaluating - Communicating results ✓ Discipline - Mathematics ✓ - Biology - Physics - Chemistry - Engineering Target group - Primary Education - Lower Secondary Education ✓ - Upper Secondary Education Age range 11-15 Duration 90 min. |
