Write a lesson plan (following one of the formats we have seen in the class) for a project that would build on your students' backgrounds. Though an actual project of this kind would arise from your interactions with the students, try to anticipate the strengths and issues of the community you intend to teach in, and base your lesson plan on them.

To get an idea of what such a project can look like, look at the articles we read about the Funds of Knowledge work, as well as the article by Claudia Zaslavsky, "Data analysis and the culture of the community." I will also show you videos in class of projects that I did with elementary school students. Another good resource is the Radical Math website: look at "The School Funding Project" and "Community Voices Heard" on the main page.

Here are some ideas for what you can do:

• Design a community walk (in which case you need to try to anticipate what types of problems will turn up, and how to mathematize them;
• Design a data collection and analysis project;
• Develop a lesson from a real life situation (use an article from the newspaper, a TV news story, knowledge of the neighborhood, Census data, etc.)

Also include a paragraph explaining what you think the benefits of this particular project, and this type of project in general, would be.

In this assignment, it is much more important to be creative and develop an interesting, engaging lesson than to write a flawless lesson plan. The grading rubric will be developed accordingly. The assignment is worth 50 points. You may turn it in electronically.