Related Math Media Lesson Plans Links
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topic #1
TV Program Ratings
Introduction What is a rating/share?
Math Activity One
One Week’s Ratings
Math Activity Two Syndicated Programming
Sample Ratings Page
Sweeps
What Do Ratings Represent?
Math Activity Three 30 Sec. Ad Costs
Math Activities 4 & 5
Accuracy & Ratings
Market Sizes
Math Activity Six
Articles About Ratings
Related Media Math Lesson Plans
Math In The Media
RELATED LINKS TO OTHER LESSON PLANS
Advertising & Marketing (Math In The Middle Teacher Guide)
http://gpn.unl.edu/guides/707.409.pdf
Batting Averages and More (PBS Mathline)
Box Office Finish, A Question of Methodology (NY Times)
Bursting The Bubble (PBS Media Matters)
By The Numbers: Math Connections in Newspapers for MS (NAA)
Census Lesson Plan (PBS NewsHour)
Cinema & Maths (pdf booklet from UK’s Film Education)
Don’t Buy It (PBS): Two math activities:
1) Graphing Data for Nutritional Comparisons 2) Using Statistics to Sell Cat Food
Estimation and Your TV Diet (pdf document)
ESPN Sports Figures Lesson Plans
Fantasy Baseball (Number & Number Relations) Middle School Math Project, PBS TeacherSource
Having Fun with Baseball Statistics
How Many Commercials Within Each TV Show?
How Stocks & The Stock Market Work from How Stuff Works
Is it really news? (PBS Mathline)
Lesson Plan: Play the (Stock) Market
Math at the movies (PBS)
Math Challenge: TV Ratings
Mathematics In Movies (contains movie clips)
Math in Television Art Direction (The Futures Channel)
Math In The Media
Math In The Movies
Math In The News (Education World)
Media Literacy: Numbers In The News (Big Chalk)
Media Math Concepts
Politics & The Media (examination of 30-second campaign ads)
Sports Photography & Math (The Futures Channel)
Video & Cinematography (Math In The Middle Teacher Guide)
http://gpn.unl.edu/guides/707.408.pdf
World’s Largest Math Event ("Entertaining Mathematics")
Site updated on: 08/04/2012
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Introduction
What is a rating/share?Math Activity One..One Week’s RatingsMath Activity TwoSyndicated ProgrammingSample Ratings PageSweepsWhat Do Ratings Represent?Math Activity Three.30 Sec. Ad CostsMath Activities 4 & 5 Accuracy & RatingsMarket Sizes.Math Activity Six..Math Articles..Related Media Math Lesson Plans
