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Eventmath: Math lesson plans based on current events

Eventmath is a living resource for all math educators, made possible by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. Each lesson plan is developed by volunteers, based on a recent news article or social media post. Have a look at what we have so far!

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United States Electoral College	Eventmath lesson plans about the United States Electoral College.
incategory:"Eventmath calculus" incategory: "Eventmath health"	Eventmath lesson plans applying calculus to health.
-incategory:"Eventmath draft lesson plans" incategory:"Eventmath calculus"	Eventmath lesson plans that are not drafts and do apply calculus.
incategory:"Eventmath arithmetic" incategory:"Eventmath lesson plans requiring 00-15 minutes in class"	Eventmath arithmetic lesson plans requiring 00-15 minutes in class. (Here's the full list of class-time categories.)
incategory:"Eventmath calculus" deepcat:"Eventmath lesson plans with source date 2022"	Eventmath calculus lesson plans based on a media source from 2022. (By using deepcat, you search the months within 2022. You could narrow it to March 2022 by replacing 2022 with 2022-03.)

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• Category:Eventmath lesson plans with source date 2024-04
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• Category:Eventmath lesson plans with source date 2024-02

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Regular courses

• Quantitative literacy (college level, one semester)
• Quantitative literacy for journalism (college level, one semester)
• Statistics and society (secondary level, one semester)
• Intro to statistics (college level, one semester, calculus assumed)
• Anything else we come up with!

Supplemental courses

• Daily elementary algebra warm-ups (secondary level, two semesters)
• Projects for differential equations (college level, one semester)
• Anything else we come up with!

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Tips

• For now, anyone wishing to create a course can ask about it on the Eventmath Discussion tab.
• In the future, we'll make instructions for creating a course and link to them.

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• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Illustrating "a tale of two Americas" in work from home trends
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Is rainwater truly unsafe to drink anywhere on Earth?
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Using algebra to explore ranked choice voting in Alaska
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Visualizing teacher resignations
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Fast Fashion and Water Crisis
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Brian Williams thinks there are only 300 people in the US
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Using inflation to predict Spotify subscription cost over time
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Analyzing a scatter plot of COVID-19 death rates of blue vs red states
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Dimensional analysis, shipping, and an impossible weight limit
• Eventmath/Lesson plans/Estimating the cost of preventing climate breakdown

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• If you'd like to browse drafts by category, head over to the Tasks tab.