Eventmath/Lesson plans

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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What you type	What you get
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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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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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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