Lucy Behrendt

Food mixed with math! Mmmm hmmmm! Students enter a scenario in which they and a friend are ordering a pizza and have three options: two round pizzas with different radii, and a rectangular pizza. One pizza-eater wants the most crust; the other just wants the biggest pizza! Students must apply the formulas for area (for rectangles and circles), perimeter, and circumference to make a choice about who would order which pizza! They will demonstrate understanding of which part of the pizza is repr

This document includes two different scenarios that can be modeled and solved with systems of linear equations. 1) Students are given pricing info for two different car rental companies and must: write the linear equations make tables for each equation graph them analyze what the solution (the point of intersection) represents answer questions like "which company is cheaper if you're driving 18 miles?" 2) Students are given information about the price of child and adult tickets for a puppet sho

Students are given the pricing for two different T-shirt companies, asked to write linear equations for each company, and then to set them up as a system of equations. After writing the equations, there is a table created that they must fill in and a grid provided on which to graph the equations. They must then analyze the information by answering questions like "Which company would you order from if you ordered 5 t-shirts? What about 15? What about 20?" so that students may analyze the point o