The link below brings you to a great interdisciplinary lesson dealing with math, social studies and English. Students should know how to substitute values into an expression or equation to evaluate the result. Much of the work in this lesson revolves around examining how those values affect the result.
"Once a year, the President of the United States stands in front of Congress and the American people to deliver the State of the Union Address. Throughout history, there have been some amazing speeches, and some less-than-amazing ones. But have the annual addresses gotten…dumber?
In this lesson, students examine the Flesch-Kincaid formula for determining the grade level of a piece of writing (which has been used to make the claim above). Then, they apply it to presidential addresses over time and decide whether claims of declining intelligence are fair."
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http://www.mathalicious.com/lessons/my-fellow-americans
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