Math

A Math's-based project helps to engage Year 7 students

After studying the unit on Positive and Negative Integers, all Box Hill HS Year 7 students worked on a Math's-based project called “the World Weather Report”. Our young minds have demonstrated cross-curriculum skills on this task such as using technology (Excel and online research), calculations and even writing techniques. Some work samples follow:

Due to COVID-19, 2020 was a very tumultuous year. Alongside the various changes our world has undergone during the global pandemic, the weather persisted in growing hotter as I inspected a Math's-based project which is analysis of the temperature data of three cities around the world. My weather report intends to identify the climate types of three cities namely, Moscow in Russia, Bangkok in Thailand, and Wellington in New Zealand. 

(by Amelia Foley)

Tokyo is a city with subtropical climate. The “Tokyo 2020 Temperature” graph shows the exceptionally high temperature during the three summer months: July, August and September. 

The Maximum Temperature of the three months all exceeded 25°C with August only 0.1°C away from 40°C. 

The city has six months (half the year) of Average Temperature being higher than 20°C. But during winter, the temperature dropped as low as 1.2°C and had 5 months below 5°C. The people who inhabit Tokyo would live with boiling hot summers and freezing cold winters. 

(by Peter Nguyen)

Athens has a warm Mediterranean climate. We can see this from the data that Athens’s average temperature was 17.6°C and the average minimum temperature was 13.9 °C. The graph shows that, the temperature started rising around April and peaked during July and August.  

This suggests that Athens may have a moderate and comfortable climate because it is not too warm neither too cold. 

(by Oli Millar)

Overall, this weather report project has clearly demonstrated all the climate types of the three cities we studied. Thanks to this project-based assignment, I have applied positive and negative numbers in the real world. I have also understood the importance of learning Math's because it interweaves many different areas such as nature science, geography, technology, and literacy. I shall do my best to learn this amazing subject. 

(by Saavitri Gupta)

We love to see our students applying their learning to real life situations and were impressed with their work and reports.