Mahoney Worksheet
Dr. Carolyn Mahoney is one of the seven Black mathematicians to have earned a PhD in mathematics from The Ohio State University. She graduated in 1983.
Learn more about Dr. Mahoney on her profile page
Dr. Mahoney focused on fields such as combinatorics, graph theory, and matroids, which will be explored through a puzzle in this activity.
This ready-to-print worksheet is ideal if you are looking for a quick activity or if you are a social sciences educator and don't want to invest so much time talking about math. Besides the printable student worksheet, you will find a set of slides to project and guide the activity. Note that the last slide includes solutions.
Lesson Details
Grade level: 3rd to 8th
Estimated time: 15 minutes
Form of work: Individual
Ohio Math Standards:
- Grade 3. Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- Grades 4 and 5. Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
- Grade 7. Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.
Math concepts: graph, vertex, edge, polygon
Accompanying slides with solutions
This activity is also available as a full lesson plan.
