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Trivial Pursuits and Algebraic Models (writing equations)  


Course Topic(s): Developmental Math | Modeling: Dev Math | Linear Equations | Functions

Hands-on activity. The purpose is to help students learn to use variables and to write equations to model a problem situation. Helps students learn how to work simple "word problems" by actually doing what is said.

Resource URL: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_SanDiegoCommunityCollegesDevelopmentalMathExchange/TrivialPursuitsandAlgebraicModelswritingequations?bc=;Coll_Group_SanDiegoCommunityCollegesDevelopmentalMathExchange.IntermediateAlgebra;Coll_Group_SanDiego


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Creator(s): Mark Sandefur (Georgetown University) and Rosalie Dance (University of the Virgin Islands)

This resource was cataloged by Bohdan Rhodehamel

Publisher:
Developmental Mathematics Collection

Resource copyright: CC BY-NC-SA

This review was published on December 08, 2011

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