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Sometimes the Real World Is Overrated: The Joy of Silly Applications

Sometimes the Real World Is Overrated: The Joy of Silly Applications

by Charles Larrieu Casias | Mar 26, 2018 | Grades 6–8

By Charles Larrieu Casias One of the cool things about math is that it can provide powerful new ways of seeing the world. Just for fun, I want you to open up this lesson from the grade 8 student text. Take a quick skim. What do you notice? What do you wonder? When...

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