Sustainability in High School Mathematics#
Welcome to the open-source project about sustainability in high school mathematics! We are happy that you have decided to give our project a try.
Origin: This project has been developed by Lars Quaedvlieg, Etienne Chassaing, and Cameron Bush (see the credits page for more information), for the “HUM-433 How People Learn II” course at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Goals: The project aims to integrate sustainability into high school mathematics education by creating a platform that allows students and teachers to easily access and contribute to a library of sustainability-themed exercises and interactive showcasings. The exercises will provide an opportunity for students to apply mathematical concepts to real-world sustainability problems, thereby improving their understanding of sustainability and enhancing their problem-solving skills. Furthermore, the platform is accessible on any device like a laptop, tablet, phone, etc.
Target Audience: The target audience of the project is high school students and teachers, with a focus on integrating sustainability into high school mathematics education.
We are excited to share more information about our project with you, so please explore our website to learn more. Thank you for your interest in our work!
If you are interesting in helping…
You are encouraged to contribute to this project! If you are interested, reach out by e-mail or help out by contributing to the GitHub repository.
Book content#
The content on the platform will be organized into three layers:
Independent exercises that can be used in their affiliated math chapter
Topics that are reused in a few math chapters
Topics that are deepened through a jupyter-notebook activity such as a small simulation.
Important
As a teacher, you do not need to have any experience with programming (jupyter notebook) to use the book! We have made it easy-to-use, and have released a user guide over here. Do not worry! It is easy to use and you will be able to get started within minutes!
The platform will also include interactive simulations and visualizations to illustrate sustainability concepts and mathematical models, and statistical methods and data analysis to assess the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives.
The book is open-source and will hopefully keep growing with the help of amazing people. For now, in order to get started, simply click on the topic you want to see, on the left navigation bar. Alternatively, check out the user guide to get started or learn about advanced features.
Citations#
If you are doing research and wish to cite this book, please cite this book (APA) as
Quaedvlieg, Lars C.P.M.; Chassaing, Etienne; Bush Cameron J. (2023). Sustainability in High School Mathematics.
@book{quaedvliegSHSM2023,
title={Sustainability in High School Mathematics},
author={Quaedvlieg, Lars C.P.M.; Chassaing, Etienne; Bush Cameron J.},
url={https://lars-quaedvlieg.github.io/Sustainability-High-School-Mathematics/},
year={2023}
}