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"Ponzi" Pyramid Schemes This task asks students to examine a pyramid scheme, caluclate the first tier profits, and explain what could go wrong. This task includes: |
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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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A Pound of Valentine’s Chocolates In A Pound of Valentine’s Chocolates, students are asked to find how long a one pound box of chocolates should last if Isolde eats it alone. The key concepts are fractions and proportional reasoning. 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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Circles and Squares This task requires students to determine ratios between measurements of multiple inscribed squares and circles. This task includes: |
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Dad’s Cookies In Dad’s Cookies, students are asked to figure out how many cookies Dad baked for the family before they ate them all. The key concepts are fractions and addition. 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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How Many Berries Did I Eat? In How Many Berries Did I Eat?, students are given information about how many berries were on each of the two bushes and how many are left on the bushes after berries were eaten. They are then asked which berries were eaten more of -- raspberries or blueberries. The key concept is subtraction. This task includes:
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