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What Is the Average Birth Month?
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ORC# 10113
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Students are asked to find the average birth month. Analysis of the data and examination of just what “average” means in the case of months leads to the mode being selected as the best way to find an "average" with categorical data....
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Exploring Variables and Real Numbers
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ORC# 10115
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 6–8
Professional Commentary: This set of questions is intended to give the teacher and students an appraisal of the level of individual students' understanding of variable expressions and the relationship of numbers to the number line. These questions provide a rich opportunity for students to explore ideas about number and variable in a thought-provoking context....
43
Jeopardy Algebra
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ORC# 10122
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 6–12
Professional Commentary: In the game of Jeopardy the answer is given and the contestant must supply the question. In Jeopardy Algebra the solution of an equation is given, and students must write an equation and then solve it to get the given solution....
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Linearity in the World Around Us
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ORC# 10123
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 8–10
Professional Commentary: Several real-world situations motivate the study of linear functions, their parameters, and behaviors. The contextual situations lead to the abstraction of function and provide tools for understanding and long-term memory....
45
The Commuter
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ORC# 10124
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 8–10
Professional Commentary: This problem, at first blush, looks like a fairly typical distance-rate-time problem and is a good one to pose after students have worked a few DRT problems. Drawing a diagram will help the students reason out the solution....
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Recursive Explorations With Number Cycles
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ORC# 10125
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: A number cycle is a repeating number pattern. For instance, the sequence 1, 3, 5, 7, 1, 3, 5, 7, 1, 3, 5, 7 ....
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Pizza Crusts and Painted Cubes
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ORC# 10126
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Students use inductive reasoning to generalize a rule for the number of pieces of pizza cut from square pizzas that have crust on 0 sides, 1 side, or 2 sides. Using area, students can confirm the resulting polynomial is correct....
48
Functions Derived From Data
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ORC# 10127
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Scientists who study real-world relationships often gather numerical data as an integral part of the scientific process. The business person will do the same thing before making a decision that has monetary ramifications....
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A Clever Method for Factoring Trinomials
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ORC# 10128
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 8–12
Professional Commentary: Here is an extension of some basic factoring methods. Although factoring has been lessened in importance in recent years, it is extremely helpful in maintaining algebraic skills and extending logical thinking and problem-solving skills....
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Let’s Go on a Penny Walk
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ORC# 10129
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Start at 0 on the number line. Flip a penny. If it is heads, move right a distance of 1 unit....
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