Robin Wozny

Wozny’s innovative teaching idea, “Project Based Learning,” is focused on showing students how math can be used in the real world. During the first quarter, students complete a virtual store project, where each student opens up their own “virtual” business and works with percentages, percent markups, and integers to develop an area of interest into a business. The second quarter uses common investigation tools involving math to solve a mystery, such as determining the speed of a car from a skid mark or the size of a suspect from their shoe size. Third quarter is used to build a town to scale, using geometry to build a scaled version of their own house, followed by the fourth quarter, where students put together a census book by collecting data from a random sample of the students in our school. They will collect household information about technology use, size of the household, common family activities and education to end with a final presentation to their school board about the data collected. Wozny hopes this program will not only help students effectively understand math, but will also enhance their ability to communicate about the math they do.