Assignment for Week 13


Farmacy http://flickr.com/photos/ticky/50417600/ from Too-ticky’s photostream Creative Commons license

Here are some links to read:

OCR @ Food From the ‘Hood | Main

  • Read an update from the kids who started Food from the Hood.

Junior Achievement: teen business ideas, student entrepreneurs

  • Read about these students who have started their own businesses.

After reading about the kids in Food from the ‘Hood and Junior Acheivement, what business do you think you could start in the next few years? Why would you choose that business? Please write at least two sentences.


Links

Tess people in Math Cats’ Tessellation Town!

  • Build tessellations (repeating patterns) at this site.

NumberNut.com: Addition Activity

  • Work on your addition

Scholastic News – Postcards

  • Make a postcard to tell a story

Spiderwick Chronicles site

Links for Week 11

From Jen Stark © 2007

The picture above is paper art by an artist named Jen Stark. Think about things like symmetry (shapes that are the same), and transformations (like reflections) when you look at this. You can click on the picture to see more of these.

Go back to our Profit/Loss spreadsheet to learn more about formulas (equations) in spreadsheets.


Links

After you finish the activity you can go to this links…

Cool math games at Coolmath4kids.com – free math games for kids of all ages

  • Start your own lemonade stand to see how much money you can make in business.

Ben & Jerry’s – Press Center

  • Learn about ice cream makers Ben and Jerry. What is interesting about this company?

Colors in Motion

  • This is a fun and informative site about colors