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Mr. Billett found this cartoon by Lynda Barry while he was reading the paper the other day. It makes fun of math word problems by exploring their "back-story", which is the history behind a situation. I thought it was relevant because we have been solving a lot of word problems involving proportions recently. (Click here to download the handouts under homework assignments for 12/17 and 12/12.)
To receive extra credit, you can make up a problem of your own, and come up with questions about the back-story like the girl in the cartoon. If you are working on this at school, you can use Comic Life to create an additional panel for the cartoon and email it to me.
If you choose to comment on this post, select a story problem we worked on in class, and make up some back-stroy questions for it. Have fun!
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