Interactivity 4

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This lesson plan was all about gas economy and how much you are actually spending on a car when you initially buy it.  This lesson plan is relevant to high school students who will be looking into purchasing their first car.  They are only making a small paycheck due to age or availability and so they need to make sure their paycheck doesn't get wasted on just gas for their car.  This lesson opens their eyes to actually researching a car before buying it.  If the student already has a car they can, by the end of the lesson, figure out how much they are spending on gas as well as what the optimal mileage for their car would be.  This is why I chose this lesson plan.  It brings mathematics that are standard curriculum to an everyday scenario that my students would be facing.  They will be figuring out averages as well as finding a function that best fits the data they have collected.  With this information they can figure out the speed range in which their car gets the best gas mileage.
I may be overlooking something but I feel that the standards were in line with the strategies and the technology used.  I added a few things but they were minor.  This lesson was all about collecting data and being able to graph it, find the function that best fits the data, and then interpret it and answer questions using the function derived by the data.
These technologies made the lesson go by smoother and made the content easier to understand.  The teacher would be teaching the content step by step with visual representation to go along with it.  Having both of these representations help all students to grasp the information and retain it for later use.