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A Golden Crown? This task uses ratios and proportional relationships to determine if the King's crown is made of solid gold. This task includes: |
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Best Buy Tickets In this task, students must illustrate the best possible choices for printing, in terms of cost efficiency, for ticket printing. This task includes: |
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Best Size Cans In this task, students must find the can dimensions that will provide the smallest surface area while still being able to hold the predetermined volume of soda. This task includes: |
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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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Fearless Frames In this task, students are asked to calculate the dimensions of a prism frame being built using a predetermined amount of metal. This task includes: |
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Fruit Boxes In this task, students are given box dimensions for a flat box and asked to calculate the largest volume possible. This task includes: |
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Funsize Cans In this task, students must find suggestions for cylindrical measurements of soda cans that contain a predetermined volume but have the smallest surface area. Similar to Best Size Cans, but with more guidance. This task includes: |
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Glasses In this task, students must find the volumes of three glasses of varying shapes. This task includes: |
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Multiplying Cells In this task, students must determine how many cells will be present at a given time by examining multiplication rates. This task includes: |
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Patchwork In this task, students must discover a formula for determining the number of triangles and squares needed for varying cushion sizes. This task includes: |
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