Video
Summary: This learning video
is designed to develop critical thinking
in students by encouraging them to work
from basic principals to solve a puzzling
mathematics problem that contains uncertainty.
One class session of approximately 55
minutes is necessary for lesson completion.
First-year simple algebra is all that
is required for the lesson, and any
high school student in a college-preparatory
math class should be able to participate
in this exercise. Materials for in-class
activities include: a yard stick, a
meter stick or a straight branch of
a tree; a saw or equivalent to cut the
stick; and a blackboard or equivalent.
In this video lesson, during in-class
sessions between video segments, students
will learn among other things: 1) how
to generate random numbers; 2) how to
deal with probability; and 3) how to
construct and draw portions of the X-Y
plane that satisfy linear inequalities.
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Richard
C. Larson
