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Exploring Types of Variation Activity

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Create a variable list of problems. Groups come up with four scenarios. Each situation represents different types of variation, direct, inverse, joint, and combined. Teams then generate questions about their contextual problems for others to answer.

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Instructional Ideas
  • Have students refrain from asking about why the word problem is modeled by a specific type of variation
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires the class to be familiar with the types of variation
  • Uses access to computers to research real-world examples of the types of variation
Pros
  • Includes a sample benchmark set of responses
  • Contains a rubric to score the task
Cons
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