Discover a Mathematician Research Project

Discover a Mathematician Research Project

Engage your students in cross-curricular studies with this Mathematician Research Project! This editable project can extend up to 11 days, but also can be simplified into 5 days based on the level of detail you wish your students to get into. In my classroom, students use all 11 days with a full MLA formatted paper, poster, and one day spent on a gallery walk!

In this assignment, students will:

1. Write a research paper
2. Create a Poster
3. Participate in a gallery walk

What This Product Includes:

•Project Description/Directions

• Directions
• 10-day timeline broken down (editable)
• Selection of mathematicians
• Paper outline for student research
• Rubric for paper and poster (editable)

•Example paper & posters with MLA directions

• Example paper in MLA format (this was a paper that received a 75/75. Written by a 15-year-old freshman in on-level Algebra I.
• 3 poster examples that received a 25/25.

•Gallery Walk Template

• Gallery walk template that students will use to learn about a new mathematician from each category as well as a scavenger hunt section & self reflection section on their poster. (editable)

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· Algebra I Resources

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· Quadratics Notes and Activities

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