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Minimum Requirements: A classroom computer with an internet connection and video projector.
Better: With wireless graphics tablet, you can take activity to individual students instead of them coming forward.
Suggested directions for use
- PLEASE MAKE BETTER SUGGESTIONS contact
Before class:
- Prepare handouts.
- Click on above link to open handout.
- Print out (2-pages) and make copies for students.
In class:
- Pass out handouts.
- Start Runner Activity.
- NCTM page: http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.2/ or
- Runner Activity Only: http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.2/standalone.htm
- Activity 1
- Teacher does a demo race with just a single runner.
- Have one or two students try races with a single runner and different parameters.
- Have students complete Activity 1 in the Handout.
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* Worksheet activities authored by:
The colleagues of MathForum's Algebraic Reasoning Workshop – Cohort 3 - Winter07
* The Runners Activity is an NCTM tool.
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