- Across Europe - Lisa Lavelle
Elementary, difficulty level 3. Calculate Tray's gift "budget" during her first year working for Capital City Guidebooks (requires a bit of geography research). Initially a two-week problem.
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- Across the Netherlands - Maggie Hos-McGrane
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 5. Help sort out this bike trip through the Netherlands (requires a bit of map reading). Initially a two-week problem.
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- Across Wisconsin - Jo Wenzler
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine how long it will take this athletic math teacher to bike across Wisconsin (requires a little map reading). Initially a two-week problem.
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- A Million in Time - Lisa Lavelle
Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. "Human beings can expect to live a million..." Use your conversion skills to determine which unit of time best completes this statement.
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- Mr. W. Goes Across Australia - Lisa Lavelle
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 reading).
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- Swimming Sea Turtles - Leigh Nataro
Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Using latitude and longitude data collected from three sea turtles, determine how far each turtle is from its starting position.
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- Tourists in Turkey - Arda Antikacioglu
Elementary, difficulty level 4. Analyze tourism data from Turkey to discover how many people visited specific areas of the country last year.
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- Up, Up, and Away (Part II) - Leigh Nataro
Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the compass setting required to send a balloon on the shortest route from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Essex Junction, Vermont.
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- Up, Up, and Away (Part I) - Leigh Nataro
Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Can you determine the shortest distance a balloon could travel from Essex Junction, Vermont, to Honolulu, Hawaii?
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- Where in the World is Essex Junction? - Leigh Nataro
Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. How far is Essex Junction, Vermont, from the equator?
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- Where Is Whitehall? - Leigh Nataro
Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the distance from Whitehall, Pennsylvania, to the equator.
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