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Bird's Nest In this task, students will examine a graph to determine a relationship between the length and width of bird's eggs. This task includes: |
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Charity Fair In this task, students will use the rules of probability to discover options for making the charity games most profitable. This task includes: |
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Domino Effect In this task, students must break down the final pizza price Dominos offers and calculate how much they charge per ingredient using linear equations. This task includes: |
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New-Tritional Info In this task, students will calculate how much time of exercise it would take to burn off various McDonalds menu items. They will then expand on this topic with two additional project tasks. This task includes: |
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On Your Mark In this task, students must explore if height creates an unfair advantage in Olympic races and determine what would happen if they were organized differently. For example, if races were not one distance for every participant, but if that distance depended on one's height. Students will then explore further through two additional project tasks. This task includes: |
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Sugar Prices In this task, students must examine a graph depicting the weight and price of sugar bags and determine which is the most cost efficient one. This task includes: |
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What Will They Think? In this task, students will examine a few responses and predict how others will respond when asked about new food products. This task includes: |
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