001[music] Math construction is a class that takes all of the the building trades math, teaches the kids the skills and then they directly go and apply those skills. [music] They also supplement the curriculum with real life financial literacy skills. >> So math and instruction is a block class. Uh there are two teachers in here, one a applied tech teacher and one math teacher. [music] Uh we basically go over the background knowledge of the construction industry, the math involved in that. We typically hit on that math pretty [music] strong with safety at the beginning of each school year. And then we take those math ideas and apply [music] it to the actual building of the dugouts in this scenario or other projects that we've [music] been working on. The math teacher will do a little bit
002of instruction on the math and then the applied tech teacher will talk about [music] the actual the building concepts behind it. >> One of the biggest questions is when when are we ever going to use this [music] or we Yeah, I mean we get that as teachers all the time. >> Tape measure is a big thing initially that we hit on. You would be actually surprised in how many people can't read a [music] tape measure. >> I never thought I would be using uh adding inches all inches like a/4 38 all those >> lot of fractions. So basically tape measures, rulers, just everything measured out. You had to make sure everything fit perfectly. There's a lot of fractions, a lot of geometry that kind of goes into um those those concepts. Perfect grade, making sure
003your concrete is sloped from [music] back to front for drainage, angles, a lot of angle measurements, a lot of angle cuts, a lot of measuring, squaring, a lot of Pythagorean theorem, um making [music] sure your walls are at perfect 90s, slope, pitch of your roof, and it just teaches you life skills, teaches you how to use math outside of school. No, I just think it it really is going to help you out in the long run doing working when you own a house. >> I like working with my hands a lot. My [music] grandpa was a pipe fitter. I plan to do an apprenticeship at IBW. Absolutely [music] has helped a lot. Like working with other people. Um just the community and getting used to working with hand tools like Joel's. >> So, my dad
004is redoing his basement and I've definitely used a lot of the stuff from his class to help him out with measuring drywall, measuring all this wood, just helping out. And now, I mean, what's great about this class is I could use this on other things. >> When kids could actually um see uh firsthand uh what could happen when you put together uh a little bit of knowledge and [music] apply it to, you know, actually constructing something, they get a little more excited about the their learning experience and take a little bit more pride in it. We have built sheds around the campus, but this was our [music] biggest project uh to date. And just seeing where we came [music] from with basically staked out ground and rock there or grass there [music] and what it's
005now, uh it's pretty rewarding as a teacher. And for [music] the kids to be excited about it and to get their hands dirty in the project, uh has been super rewarding. [music] >> We started off laying the concrete. Concrete workers helped us like learn about how to finish concrete and all that. How they pour it, all this stuff. Before we put up the walls, we framed them out, put them all together, then stood them up. Learned how to mark your holes and everything for [music] your concrete studs. Then we moved on to the the roofing and all the joists and everything. Overall, it really helped with like everything. You learned concrete, carpentry, roofing. >> Yeah, it was a great experience. woodworking last year [music] and this year it was like a step up. So, I
006mean, we haven't really built a project this big before. We've only built [music] coffee tables and little chests and it I think it was just amazing the fact we got to go outside [music] almost every day, build such a big project for our school. It took a lot of math. You know, everything had [music] to be perfect because, you know, you don't want anything to be too short or messed up. >> These students are leaving a legacy behind. What connects kids to this course [music] is the fact that they're doing projects that will be around this school for years after they [music] graduate. >> I'm most proud of how it all came together, how we built it up from nothing. >> I think being able to look back at it and say that I built
007that, [music] saying I'm the first female to build a dugout in my math and construction class. >> [music]