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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Nets of a Cube Reveal Rich Mathematics

  By drawlins • October 28, 2016 "Low Floor, High Ceiling" Problems, 3rd, Making Math Relevant

How Many Nets Are There That Can Make Up a Cube?

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Popular Vote versus Electoral College Vote

  By drawlins • October 27, 2016 "Low Floor, High Ceiling" Problems, 4th, Making Math Relevant

How is it possible to win the popular vote, but lose an electoral college election?

Fourth grade students watched the video below and modeled the mathematics to find out the answer to this question.

https://blog.lrei.org/math-commons/files/2016/10/Electoral-college-edited-qnp4dc.m4v

 Here is the problem they worked on:

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