need help asap! field trip ideas!!!

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need help asap! field trip ideas!!!

Jaki H
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since 2008-01-19

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NJ, USA

0 posted 2008-04-15 08:52 PM

ok, im trying to convince my math teacher to let us have a field trip. she couldnt think of any places to go...

i need a field trip idea for 10th/9th grade grade geometry (or any similar math) students in New Jersey or new york or somewhere close.
kind of random, but any ideas???

HELP!!!

Seoulair
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since 2008-03-27

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Seoul S.Korea

1 posted 2008-04-15 09:02 PM

Bakery. I shall say.

Bob K
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2 posted 2008-04-16 03:56 AM

Why not a jazz club.  Maybe you can get some of the jazz folk to talk to you about how they do jazz and somebody can talk a little bit about the math of it all.  Music and math are related you know.  Maybe you can get somebody to let you watch them do recordings.  Maybe you could find something interesting at the Institute For advanced Studies at Princeton.

Maybe they have something for High School Kids, maybe not.  Why not google math and New Jersey or just spend some time fooling around with that stuff on the computer and see what comes up?

     Just a few thoughts.

Jaki H
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since 2008-01-19

Posts 232
NJ, USA

3 posted 2008-04-16 05:44 AM

hmmm... jazz... not a bad idea! dont know if the school board would consider it but ill ask.

and i did look up stuff on google. theres a surpisingly little amount of stuff on it... i looked for about an hour and couldnt find much that wasnt in washington or something.

thanks for the suggestions!

Sunshine

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4 posted 2008-04-16 11:37 AM

Planetary observation site.

Bakery, or any restaurant [dealing with quantity and how to anticipate the number of units to be sold every day; what goes into preparation of individual meals...]

Zoo, what it takes to feed its animals...

Grocery stores [again, numbers of units] and also incorporate each student's need to "plan a meal for 10" and figure out what one would require for a five course meal...

all math related.

Susan Caldwell
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5 posted 2008-04-16 11:46 AM

http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

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