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Team Name: The Puzzle School: Jared Cosulich Title: XYFlyer Hometown, Local PBS Station: San Francisco, CA; KQED Description: XYFlyer allows students to explore equations and graphing through 200 puzzle-­‐like challenges and immediate feedback loops. Students try to create an equation that will graph out providing a remote controlled airplane a path through a series of points on the graph. Each challenge can be customized, allowing for creative solutions, and there is an editor allowing students and teachers to create custom levels to challenge each other. Team Name: Flocabulary Title: Order of Operations (“PEMDAS”) Hometown, Local PBS Station: Brooklyn, NY; WNET Description: PEMDAS is a handy mnemonic to help students remember the order of operations. This video explains the order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add and subtract. It then shows students how to apply PEMDAS to an example equation. This video is aligned to the following Common Core standards: CCSS.Math.Content.6.EE.A.2c; CCSS.Math.Content.7.EE.A.1; CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-­‐
SSE.A.1a Team Name: Flocabulary Title: Dividing Fractions (“Keep, Change, Flip”) Hometown, Local PBS Station: Brooklyn, NY; WNET Description: The “Keep, Change, Flip” mnemonic teaches students how to divide fractions. The song shows students this process with an example problem and explains the math behind it. This video is aligned to the following Common Core standard: CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.A.1 Team Name: Flocabulary Title: Area of a Triangle (“½ bh”) Hometown, Local PBS Station: Brooklyn, NY; WNET Description: This video introduces the formula for the area of a triangle. The hook reminds students that the formula is 1⁄2 b x h. It explains how to find the base and height of a triangle in order to find the area and demonstrates why area is calculated this way, using a parallelogram as an example. This video is aligned to the following Common Core standard: CCSS.Math.Content.6.G.A.1 Team Name: Flocabulary Title: Coordinate Plane (“The Treasure Hunt”) Hometown, Local PBS Station: Brooklyn, NY; WNET Description: In this video, our protagonist finds a treasure map laid out as a coordinate plane. To get to the treasure, he needs to use what he knows about coordinate planes. He reviews the concepts of x-­‐axis, y-­‐axis, origin and ordered pairs as he tries to find his treasure. This video is aligned to the following Common Core standards: CCSS.Math.Content.5.G.A.1; CCSS.Math.Content.5.G.A.2 Team Name: Flocabulary Title: Probability (“Tell the Future”) Hometown, Local PBS Station: Brooklyn, NY; WNET Description: The song explains the different ways of expressing probability: as a decimal, percentage or fraction between zero and one. It also walks students through calculating probability using the common examples of a coin flip and a dice toss. This video is aligned to the following Common Core standards: CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.5; CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.6; CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.7; CCSS.Math.Content.7.SP.C.8; CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-­‐
ID.A.2; CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-­‐MD.B.5; CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-­‐MD.B.5a Team Name: School Yourself, Inc: Zach Wissner-­‐Gross, John Lee, Kenny Peng, Vivek Venkatachalam, and Michael Fountaine Title: Beat the Odds Hometown, Local PBS Station: Boston, MA; WGBH Description: "Beat the Odds" is a web-­‐based game in which students are challenged to develop and use probability models. In Training Mode, students are presented with coins, dice, or cards, and are asked to compute the probability of a specific scenario (from a library of about 1000 questions). If students aren't sure of the answer, they can run as many random trials as they want to get a better sense of what the probability might be. In Competition Mode, students are again presented with specific scenarios, and are asked to predict how many times (out of 100 trials) a specific result will occur. After running the 100 trials, whoever is closest to the experimental result wins the round. Both Training Mode and Competition Mode become increasingly challenging as the student advances in the game and levels up. For example, compound probability questions are introduced when the student reaches Level 3. With these two gameplay modes, "Beat the Odds" was specifically designed to align with the 7th grade common core standards in statistics and probability. Team Name: DeMillo Design: Connie Demillo Title: Geometry Terminology Animated Local PBS Station/Hometown: St. Paul, MN; TPT Description: I made some animations about geometry terminology and put them to a beat. The idea is that if a student could watch them a few times, and play the movie in their head, they could better remember what the math terms mean. Team Name: Vertical Learning Labs: David Ng Title: Drawing Area Hometown, Local PBS Station: Acton, MA; WGBH Description: In Drawing Area, students will find the area of a polygon by drawing it using rectangles and right triangles. Team Name: Beasley Games: Jen Schneider and Martin Schneider Title: Knights of Pi Hometown, Local PBS Station: Dresher, PA; WHYY Description: Knights of Pi is a two dimensional platform game that introduces, teaches, and provides practice for geometry concepts and Common Core State Standards (including those noted below) through lessons and practice problems that are entirely integrated into the platform setting (a kingdom filled with knights, dragons, castles, fireballs and more). Each level introduces a new geometry concept/standard via a tutorial set in the Knights of Pi kingdom and explained by game characters (knights and dragons). Levels incorporate prior concepts, so that practice on all learned concepts continues. Math problems are integrated into the levels, and by answering problems correctly, users are rewarded by being able to continue and by having a new task to accomplish (such as defeating dragons). Progress reports are continually generated, and shared at the completion of each platform level to give users an idea on what they should work on. The following geometry standards are expressly included in the game: -­‐Classify angles as acute, obtuse, right, and straight -­‐Know that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees -­‐Find a missing angle when given two angles of a triangle -­‐Understand the relationship between the circumference and the diameter of a circle -­‐Calculate the radius or diameter, given the circumference or area of a circle -­‐By including upper elementary standards additional practice is available (when needed) to reinforce core concepts before students practice related middle school skills based on the following Common Core Standards: 7.G.B.4, 7.G.B.5, and 7.G.B.6. Team Name: St. John Regional Catholic School: Lisa Cutchin and Thomas Nishimoto Title: The Art of Math Hometown, Local PBS Station: Fort Detrick, MD; MPT Description: How do you build a mobile that is balanced? You can try over and over, or you can use algebra build a balance mobile. Team Name: RA: Andrew Przybylski, and Rebecca Schmitt Title: Make It Math Hometown, Local PBS Station: Milwaukee, WI; WI Media Lab Description: Make It Math is a tool where you solve various selectable types of math problems whose answers relate to a coordinate point. Once you answer all the problems correctly, the picture slowly becomes complete. Team Name: Boland: Clara and Boyd Boland Title: Time (to) Travel Hometown, Local PBS Station: Golden, CO; Rocky Mountain PBS Description: Here's something to think about. It takes time for stuff to get from one place to another. In this video we explore the time it takes for different things to travel from one place to another. Team Name: Mathalicious Title: Tip Jar Hometown, Local PBS Station: Monticello, VA; eMediaVA Description: When we go out to eat at a restaurant, it's customary to tip as a percent of the total bill. But is this fair? And what are some other ways we might pay waiters & waitresses?