This is an article about outreach efforts to teach networks to students of age 13-16 in England. Supplementary teaching materials are available, too.
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Middle School
AMSI MPE Schools Resources
GeneralThe Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has a number of self-contained classroom resources based on topical issues and current events. For each there is a brief background and some mathematical questions for students.
Publications de l’ADIREM
GeneralNASA Exploring Climate Change Through Graphs, Rates and Slopes
Climate / Climate ChangeSpaceMath@NASA in collaboration with Houghton-Mifflin has produced a multi-media module for seventh grade math students that covers climate change. The module includes a press release, NASA video, and a series of standards-based three math problems for student exploration of global warming.
Link to the module on climate change
NASA Exploring Climate Change by Graphing Functions
Climate / Climate ChangeSpaceMath@NASA in collaboration with Houghton-Mifflin has produced a multi-media module for sixth grade math students that covers climate change. The module includes a press release, NASA video, and a series of standards-based three math problems for student exploration of global warming.
Link to the module on climate change
NASA SpaceMath – Problems in Earth Science
Atmosphere / Climate / Climate Change / Energy / Geophysics / Meteorology / Natural Disasters / OceanSpaceMath@NASA has created a number of individual math problems for grades 5-12 that feature Earth science themes. This webpage is the archive of these problems – each is given by its title, content, grade level and math skill, and consists of a single Student page and a teacher Answer key in a compact PDF file.
Link to the NASA problems in earth science, Link to the full SpaceMath@NASA collection
NASA Remote Sensing Math
Atmosphere / Climate / Climate Change / Energy / Geophysics / Inverse ProblemsWith 103 problems designed for middle and high school students, this book covers many topics in remote sensing, satellite imaging, image analysis and interpretation. Examples are culled from NASA earth science and astronomy missions. Students learn about instrument resolution and sensitivity as well as how to calibrate a common digital camera, and how to design a satellite imaging system.
Download Remote Sensing Math (pdf, 18 MB, 226 pages)
NASA Earth Math
Atmosphere / Climate / Climate Change / Energy / OceanWith 46 problems tailored for grades 5-9, students explore the simple mathematics behind global climate change through analyzing graphical data, data from NASA satellites, and by performing simple calculations of carbon usage using home electric bills and national and international energy consumption.
Download Earth Math (pdf, 6.8 MB, 1066 pages)