Women's History Month

Early Childhood

Susan B. Anthony is an important figure in women’s gaining the right to vote. Ask your classmates to vote for their favorite school subject. Make a tally chart and count the votes for each subject.  How many voted for reading?  Math? Science?  Music? Art?

Upper Elementary

Susan B. Anthony was an important figure in the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.  She died in Rochester, New York, in 1906.  How old was she when she died?In 1979 her face was printed on the one dollar coin in honor of her contribution to women’s rights.  How many years after her death did this occur?

Middle School

Along with a woman’s right to vote, one of the focuses of the Women’s Rights Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls was women’s entrance into colleges and universities.  At that time, women could attend female academies, but were barred from higher education.  Expansion West, and the opening of new colleges as coeducational schools, offered women access to higher education.  But by 1870, only .7% of women attended colleges.  By 1900 the rate was 2.6% and by 1920 only 7.6%.Today, 45% of women (aged 18-24) attend four year institutions, compared with only 35% of men.Given this data, what is the average annual growth rate, for female college attendance from 1870-1900?  From 1900-1920?  And from 1920 to 2014?

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Featured Websites:

Women’s history math hunt:http://teacher.scholastic.com/mathhunt/StartGame.asp?QuizID=13

Middle School: http://www.fi.edu/school/math/women.html