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Math in the News    order this print and read a spread download a complete sample This middle-school follow-up to our popular “Math Carnival” tab is a piece that really adds up. It also won a gold medal in the 2006 Distinguished Achievement Awards Competition of the Association of Educational Publishers (EdPress). Every day, math makes news in the world, and understanding math can help students understand how the world works. Product prices, sports statistics and entertainment ratings all are based on math. So are business profits, salaries, taxes and the digital technology that drives everything from DVDs to the Internet. To help students recognize how important math is in their lives, Hollister Kids is offering this exciting new middle school supplement. In this section, students will learn to recognize the math connections in life through word problems drawn from stories that actually appeared in newspapers around the country. Use-the-newspaper activities then extend the learning as writing or discussion prompts. Act now to order “Math in the News.” Show your students that when math makes news, numbers come alive! Sample Newspaper Activity Take a Space Trip — It won’t be cheap, but someday soon, the public will be able to travel into space. Burt Rutan, inventor of the first private spaceship, won a $10 million prize in the fall of 2004 when he flew his own ship into space. Now he has a deal to build five spaceships that will blast paying customers into space as soon as 2008. Tickets are going for $200,000 each — and more than 29,000 people signed up in the first six months. Rutan says once space travel becomes relatively safe, the prices will drop to $25,000 to $30,000 and lots more people will get to go into space. Find newspaper articles about space travel. Use the information you gather to write an outline for a creative story set in space. Then do these math problems: If 29,000 people paid $200,000 each for trips into space, how much money does that all come to? How much would those 29,000 people pay all together if the tickets only cost $30,000? How much would it cost for everyone if the tickets cost $25,000? Learning Standard: Analyzing how purchasers obtain information about goods and services from advertising and other sources. Sponsor Suggestion PTAs, parent groups, CPAs, accounting firms