Shake, Rattle, & Roll

Grades 7-8 and gifted 6

In Shake, Rattle, & Roll, an installment in the Expect the Unexpected With Math® series, students apply math concepts to real-world disasters and their far-reaching effects. A real attention grabber that keeps students engaged… and learning. Shake up your classroom instruction with these exciting materials!

Free Printable Math Lesson Plan
and Activities

• Poster (pdf)
• Teaching Guide and Activities (pdf)
• Additional Classroom Activities (pdf)
• Family Activity Pages (pdf)
  
  
  

Topics Covered

Shake, Rattle, & Roll provides lesson plans, activities and other teaching resources while incorporating and applying actuaries’ natural mathematics expertise in real-world situations, namely disasters.

Using Shake, Rattle, & Roll, students will:

• Create and analyze scatterplots;
• Learn how histograms are used and create and analyze histograms;
• Use cost-benefit analysis to make predictions from data; and
• Learn how tree diagrams can be used to understand the different possible outcomes of given events.

Objectives

Students will learn:

• How to use a scatterplot to compare two sets of data to determine if they are related;
• The definition of regression line (the “line of best fit”);
• How scientists and actuaries use math and data to study earthquake probability;
• That a histogram is a type of bar graph that represents frequency distribution;
• The definition of mean and how it applies to histograms;
• How an actuary may use histograms to analyze the frequency of events to determine risk;
• How to estimate costs and make inferences and predictions from data;
• How to use cost-benefit analysis to make decisions;
• How to use a tree diagram to map outcomes and determine the probability of different events occurring; and
• Mutually exclusive and complementary events.
  

Shake, Rattle, & Roll is aligned with NCTM standards and core middle school curriculum.

Click here for more Foundation classroom materials on probability.

About Expect the Unexpected With Math®

The dynamic lessons and activities in the Expect the Unexpected With Math® series use story lines that students find interesting to show them the fun and relevance of math. Motivate your students to achieve math success in the classroom and in real-world situations outside of school!

View the other installments in this series:

• The Power of Probability
• Solving the Unknown with Algebra
• Setting the Stage with Geometry
• Conversions Rock – converting numbers to fractions and percents
• Bars, Lines, & Pies – graphing

TEACHERS!
Contact the Foundation at asa@actfnd.org for availability of printed materials or to inquire about an actuary presenting this program to your classroom.

Watch a short video (wmv) of actuaries describing their experience with presenting the Shake, Rattle & Roll materials to a classroom.

ACTUARIES!

Use the Classroom Guide for Actuaries to present Shake, Rattle, & Roll to a classroom near you.