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Elementary
- Across Europe
- Lisa Lavelle
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. Calculate Tray's gift "budget" during her first year working for Capital City Guidebooks (requires a bit of geography
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- 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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- Flying Time Zones
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help me figure out what time my watch should show when I land in
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- A Million in Time
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. "Human beings can expect to live a million..." Use your conversion skills to determine which unit of time best
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- More Mowing Madness
- George Miller and Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Where should Matt and Georgette change places to evenly split their "Matt-mowing"
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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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- Perfect Passengers
- Mrs. Clark's Sixth Grade Stars
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Elementary, difficulty level 2. See if you can determine who's who using clues to their eye color and
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- Railroad Crossing
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine how far apart Division Junction and Logarithm Square are, based on the time Emily and Edward
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- Speeders, Beware!
- Stephen Maurer (and Chief Brian Craig)
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Evaluate the method the Swarthmore Borough Police Department uses for catching
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- Tourists in Turkey
- Arda Antikacioglu
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Analyze tourism data from Turkey to discover how many people visited specific areas of the country last
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- Water Park Adventure
- Leon Roland & class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How much does each member of the class need to earn to fund the field
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- Middle School
- California Dreaming
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine the length of time that will be needed to drive from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Los Angeles,
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- Car Rental Quandary
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Compare the car rental deals using the given information.
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- Commuting Conundrum
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Help Suzanne and Richard decide which train tickets will give them the most value for their
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- Distance Driving
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Write an expression that will help you determine how long it will take the car to travel any given number of
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- Downhill All the Way
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Starting at 10,000 feet above sea level, descending a 6% grade followed by a 4% grade will put a car how many feet
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- Frequent Flier Figuring
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Use Web resources to help plan the shortest route from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans,
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- Math Club Ski Trip
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Mrs. Germain and her friend, Mrs. Granville, need your help to plan the shortest route to visit five local ski
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- Sailing Around the World
- Leon Roland & class
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Determine the amounts of the supplies that Giuseppi Linguini will need to sail around the
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- Algebra
- Highway Miles
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Find the number of miles a person travels on a highway, given the number of gallons of gas and the consumption
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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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- To Grandmother's House We Go
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 4. Red Riding Hood goes to visit Grandmother for the holidays at the same time that Grandmother heads out to visit Red.
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- Up the Down Elevator
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Juanita has to use a freight elevator to deliver packages but can use the passenger elevator to return. What is her
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- The Way the Crazy Crow Flies
- Janet Bowers
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. A crazy crow flies back and forth between two trains that are approaching each other on parallel tracks. How far does
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- Discrete Math
- Dona and Dennis Go Traveling
- Dona Coffey
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Using matrix addition, students determine how many means of transportion they have in getting from city to
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- Minimal Minnie's Cost
- Ethel Breuche, Dona Coffey
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Building a rail line that connects a number of different cities: a problem that involves graph theory, minimal
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- Mother's Chores
- Jim Greene
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. A Traveling Salesperson Problem. Tom's mother needs to make several stops around the city and then get home. What
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- New York Tours
- Sharon Edelkind
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Use vertex coloring to solve conflicting New York tour bus
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- The Termite and the Cube
- Jared Hammond
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. Can a termite, traveling only vertically or horizontally through a 3x3x3 Rubik-like cube, go through every cube
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- Train Travel
- Dona Coffey
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Dona is in charge of setting up a new train service to connect nine towns in a county. What's the minimum cost?
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- Trigonometry/Calculus
- Adventure Airlines
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 1. How far from the airport does the plane need to begin its descent?
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- Center Coordinates
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the coordinates of the center of a circle circumscribed around a
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- Don't Be Late for Dinner
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Based on given distances, determine whether Susy will be late getting home for
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- Goose Bay Mountain
- Johnson, Patnode, Desautels, Brault, Mahoney
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Using trigonometry, find the angle of takeoff needed for a plane to clear a
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- Swimming Sea Turtles
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Using latitude and longitude data collected from three sea turtles, determine how far each turtle is from its starting
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- Up, Up, and Away (Part II)
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the compass setting required to send a balloon on the shortest route from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Essex Junction,
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- Up, Up, and Away (Part I)
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Can you determine the shortest distance a balloon could travel from Essex Junction, Vermont, to Honolulu,
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- Where in the World is Essex Junction?
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. How far is Essex Junction, Vermont, from the
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- Where Is Whitehall?
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the distance from Whitehall, Pennsylvania, to the
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