Dude, here's your car...
This article offers the opportunity to incorporate many Mathematical
competencies, while also providing the student with socially responsible
information. It explores percentages, actual numbers, currency,
time and rates, all of which can be in some way included in the
classroom to enhance the learning of the student from real life
data. While being a highly commendable numeracy-literacy problem,
it also presents the important issue of theft and how such acts
affect people, including the many different situations that people
can be in when their cars are stolen.
To make a lesson open ended, the question of a future expectation
as to where the students perceive the rate of car theft to be
heading is included. This offers the chance for the students to
use mathematical figures to make a judgement or base an opinion.
For further ideas on the use of this article in a classroom,
teachers should look at the article entitled "Rising
car thefts hits battlers".
(Written by Sam Nogajski, BTeach student, University of Tasmania,
2001)
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