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ERIC Number: EJ717698
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-May-1
Pages: 6
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
The Galactic Spaceship Tour Challenge
Engel, Bill; Schmidt, Diane
Mathematics Teacher, v97 n5 p314-319 May 2004
A science fiction problem was placed before the students, they had to plan a profitable trip for Galactic spaceship tour and for which group of five students was made to solve the problem, which would encourage cooperative efforts, and different people in the group could work on different aspects. An important part of this problem is that students should organize their work and transmit their solutions in a systematic way.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1502. Web site: http://www.nctm.org.
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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