Algebra Number Sense Grades 4–HS

Triple Crown possibilities, 2015

Posted 2023-11-20 09:44:32
Updated for 2017! [caption id="attachment_17810" align="aligncenter" width="300"]AmericanPharoah Victor Espinoza riding American Pharoah[/caption]

American Pharaoh was the first horse to win not only the Triple Crown but also the Breeder's Cup race = Grand Slam!  Never done before.

Involve your students in this soon-to-be event while reviewing fractions, calculating miles per hour and miles per minute of horse racing, and learning about the measures of “hands” and “furlongs”.

A lot of CCSS are addressed in this task.  This is a very "number operations" heavy lesson full of rational number operations and conversions, see CCSS below.

triple-crown2017.pdf

For members we have an editable Word doc and solutions.

triple-crown2017.docx          triple-crown2017-solution.pdf

  CCSS: 4.NF.1, 4.NF.2, 5.MD.1, 5.NF.1, 5.NF.7, 5.NBT.7, 6.NS.3, 6.RP.3, 7.NS.3

Activity Solutions & Supporting Materials

Common Core standards

6.RP.3 5.NBT.7 7.NS.3 6.NS.3 5.NF.7 5.MD.1 4.NF.1 5.NF.1

Topics

Data and Probability ratio Fractions Unit rate conversion decimal miles per hour 4.NF.2.

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