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Elementary
- Across the Netherlands
- Maggie Hos-McGrane
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 5. Help sort out this bike trip through the Netherlands (requires a bit of map reading). Initially a two-week
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- Across Wisconsin
- Jo Wenzler
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine how long it will take this athletic math teacher to bike across Wisconsin (requires a little map
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- Frugal Freeda
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Help Freeda decide which store has the best
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- Golf Anyone?
- Phil Marchal
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Kyle needs some help in figuring out how many buckets of golf balls were hit at the Hook and Slice Driving
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- Jumping Rope
- Leon Roland & class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Just how long was the rope with which we
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- March Madness!
- Teaching the Young Learner Class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Given four clues, figure out which pair of friends won a basketball
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- Mr. W. Goes Across Australia
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 5. Help Mr. W figure out when he needs to start his trip in order to meet Mrs. W on time (requires a bit of map
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- The Olympic Distance
- Shrawan Khanna & Class
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Determine how many kilometres the Russian Olympic team members will travel in attending the 2002 Winter
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- What Was That Score?
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine the football (not soccer!)
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- Middle School
- Baseball Attendance Figures
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Find the difference between the greatest possible number of people at the stadium and the least possible number of
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- Baseball Trivia
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How many runs do the Phillies have to score before the base runners have covered a mile?
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- Batter Up!
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Use statistics to help Lee convince his manager to give him a
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- Canadian Soccer
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Find the distance a player runs to complete three "Double V" laps.
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- Chamique the Archer
- Mr. Marthinsen's Geometry Class
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Chamique wants to know the probability of hitting a bull's-eye with a randomly shot arrow.
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- Citius, Altius, Fortius
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Would record-holding speed skaters and runners break the speed limit in a residential
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- Football Figures
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 2. This year we have already won as many games as we lost last year. How many games will the team play this year?
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- Golfing Luck?
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Work with probability on the practice hole of the golf
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- Homerun Percentages
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Baseball box scores give us a chance to practice percent
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- I Get A Kick Out Of Soccer!
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. How many laps of the soccer field would a team member need to complete to run more than a mile?
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- Inching Along Down the Football Field
- Terrel Trotter
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Fred put his football down on a goal line of the 100-yard field. He then moved it forward half the field
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- Olympic Temperature
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Compare the difference in temperatures between Sydney, Australia at 14 degrees Celsius and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania,
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- Saturday Bike Ride
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Now that spring has arrived, Ali and Maya decide to dust off their bikes and go for a Saturday ride. Help find what
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- Sequence of Exercise
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 2. Each day Chris and Jody jog three blocks farther than they did the day before. How many days have Chris and Jody
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- Super Bowl XXXIII
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Based on the winners and points scored during the past 15 Super Bowl games, which team should win Super Bowl XXXIII?
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- Super Bowl XXXII
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 2. The Super Bowl committee has decided to create a plaque to hang in the NFL Hall of Fame. Your job is to determine
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- Algebra
- 'Ace' Trotter
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. A problem from the sports world regarding free-throw
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- Adrienne's Axel
- Leslie Hogben
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Adrienne, an algebraically inclined figure skater, figures an interesting problem for us.
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- At Least This Many
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Using two data points from the NBA statistics chart, form an equation (y = mx + b style), then use it to predict other
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- Dot.com Derby
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Three "dots" run a race around a circular track in an unusual manner. You must determine the winners in two
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- Going for the Gold
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 4. Find the number of points that are awarded for each gold, silver, and bronze medal in an athletic competition.
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- Homer Jones
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. Find the area of a certain triangle laid out on a baseball
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- Jack and Jill Go Jogging
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two famous Mother Goose characters take up aerobics, running at some numerical speeds while exercising. How fast can
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- Lucie and Daryl's Bike Ride
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. A sister and brother who ride bikes provide us with a math challenge concerning distance, rate, and time.
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- Motorcycle Daredevil
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 4. A motorcycle stunt person needs some math equation work to calculate her most daring feat: jumping between ramps at high
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- Tennis Anyone?
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Use algebra, inequalities, and ratios to find the greatest number of matches a player could have won before the weekend
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- Touchdown Toddlers
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two little boys run an unusual race on a professional football field, and everybody comes out a
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- What's the Score?
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Find the final score of the football game between the Falcons and the
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- Geometry
- Aim at This Target!
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 4. Figure out the areas of different parts of this target, and the relation between the different areas. Can you explain
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- Areas of Circles in a Target
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Given one circle inside another circle. If the outer circle is 36 inches in diameter, how big must the inner circle be
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- Calculating String Length
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Given the archery targets of two competitors, figure out which one has the shortest 'string length'.
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- The Corner Banking of the Daytona Speedway
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Compare the corner banking at the Daytona Speedway, which is 31 degrees, with the roof on the house and garage that I
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- Drawing a Kite Plan
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 3. Given a picture of a kite plan, figure out the radius of the circle that creates the curved section.
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- Olympic Softball
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Should the pitcher's rubber in Olympic softball be behind the line drawn from third base to first base, or in front of
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- Olympic Target Shooting
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Given that a shooter is equally likely to hit any point on a 10-inch target, what are the odds that his shot will be in
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- Patterning a Shotgun
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Construct a circular target with nine regions of equal area, with one a circle in the middle and spokes going out to
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- Play Ball!
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Figure out how to scale down parts of a basketball court so that it's "woman sized," assuming that the average men's
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- Replacing the Football Field
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Will a regulation-size NCAA soccer field fit inside an equal-quadrant 400-meter
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- Running a Mile on a Metric Track
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 4. How far out from the rail on a 400 meter track would you have to run to cover 440
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- Sighting in a Rifle
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 3. Analyze the given target of four shots, and tell me how far to move the scope on my rifle so that the group of shots
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- The Speed Skating Oval
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Find the radii of the turns of a 400 meter speed skating
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- Who Wants to be an Archery Champion?
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. To determine the winner, calculate the "string length" for each of two archery rounds.
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- Winning at Biathlon
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 3. Figure out which of two fictional biathletes will win a
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- World Series Snafu?
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 2. Determine what's wrong with the "official" dimensions of "home plate" in baseball.
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- Discrete Math
- Fastball or Curveball?
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 4. Using game theory, find the percentage of time a batter should guess a fastball will be thrown, and calculate the
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- Ping Pong Tournament
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Organize a Ping Pong (table tennis) singles tournament for your
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- Which is the Dominant Team?
- Jennifer Stetz, Nicole Zayatz
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Determine which soccer team dominates the
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- World Series Champions
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. How many ways could a baseball team win a World Series of n games if it must win a majority (one more than half) of
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- Trigonometry/Calculus
- Basketball Angles
- Richard Tchen
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Find the minimum angle at which a basketball will pass through a basketball
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- Fishing on the Bay
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Will the depth of the water on the bay be at the right level for fishing? Write a trig function to find
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- Football Volume
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Given the dimensions of a football, find its
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- The Indoor Driving Range
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Determine the minimum amount of netting needed to make an indoor driving range golf
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- Skiing in Vermont
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. How far must you ski and what does your heading need to be for you to return to your starting
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