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Security Camera This task requires students to determine the most optimal security camera placement in a store to prevent shoplifting and provides a diagram with people throughout the store in order to give a quantatative visual. This task includes: |
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Seeing Structure in Expressions In this task, students must answer five short questions. This task includes: |
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Sidewalk Patterns In this task, students will create an equation to determine the amount of each colored brick needed to create a specific sidewalk pattern. Similar to Sidewalk Stones, but with more guidance. This task includes: |
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Sidewalk Stones In this task, students will create an equation to determine the amount of each colored brick needed to create a specific sidewalk pattern. This task includes: |
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Skeleton Tower In this task, students are required to create a formula for discovering how many cubes it takes to build structures of various sizes and shapes. This task includes: |
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Sorting Functions In this task, students are asked to match corresponding graphs, equations, tables, and rules. This task includes: |
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Square In this task, students must prove that points on a graph are the corners of a square. 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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T-shirt Sale In this task, students must determine price savings from a sale. This task includes: |
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Table Tiling In this task, students will calculate how many tiles will be needed to cover tables of varying sizes. This task includes: |
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