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Writing a claim doesn’t have to be difficult, it’s your answer to a question that is asked along with your evidence and reasoning. For instance, if a friend asked you this question: “should my little brother get a cell phone?”. You might answer cell phones can be unhealthy for kids. Always remember not to start […]

Imagine the temperature outdoors is a sweltering 33 degrees Celsius. The weatherman reports that there every 11 days the temperature will reduce a certain amount until it gets to zero degrees Celsius. You want to determine how many degrees the temperature will drop during each of those 11 days if it drops at an average […]

The number 21 is in a lot of places. If you are a gambler, you may think of 21 at a blackjack table. In the game, you start out with being dealt two cards. One card is face-up for everyone to see. The other card is face down. Only you can see that card. Face […]

A truck is traveling down the highway at 40 miles an hour. The driver slows the truck down by pressing the brake pedal every few times. If the speed of his truck evenly drops with each press of the brake pedal, how many times will the truck driver need to press the brake pedal in […]

At a popular company, a job advertisement for a receptionist was placed on an online job board website. Forty-two applicants applied for this position. The human resources department runs the applications through a computerized process that sorts them into groups. These groups are above average, average, and below average. The human resources department will then […]

In your closet, there are 44 articles of clothing in there. You start looking through your closet and realize something strange. You have shirts, pants, shorts, and sweaters. Ironically, you have the same amount of shirts, pants, shorts, and sweaters. So, use the factors to find how many of each article of clothing you have […]

In math class, your teacher presents you with a word problem using the triangle below. You realize that you need to divide the angle in half. To divide the 45 degree angle, you want to use the factors of 45 since you are so familiar with factoring. Can you use factors of 45 to know […]

Unlike the other months, there are only 28 days in February. It is the only month that has that few of days. The rest of the months have more. At the end of this month, Debby will be taking a huge exam to get certified for a department at her job. The exam will cover […]

By 2022, there have been 46 presidents in the United States. In your social studies class, you must memorize them for an upcoming test. You want to group the presidents and memorize a group at a time. You think this will make it easier to remember them for the test. How can you group the […]

The Babylonians’ contributed a lot to our number system – and one of which is probably the number sixty. Without the Babylonians, we wouldn’t have known the number of seconds in a minute – or even the number of minutes in an hour. Sixty is an ancient and mysterious yet exciting number. While it is […]