Resumen de Launching mathematical success

Dittika Gupta, Lara Dick, Melissa M. Soto (coord.), Mollie H. Appelgate (coord.)

• Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM 2014) calls for integrating into the classroom real-world activities that connect mathematical ideas to other subjects and contexts. Motivated by the desire to make these connections, Gupta and Dick devised a paper airplane design task to engage students in various STEM concepts. The challenge is to design a paper airplane that could fly the fastest or the farthest. The overall goal of the task was to motivate students to think about design, materials, and weight distribution as they fabricated and experimented with paper airplanes.