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2  Tim is doing a school project on the State of Tennessee. He has decided that he wants to see on average how many people live in each square mile of Tennessee.

3  The area of Tennessee › How could he find this? › What shape is Tennessee?  Parallelogram  How do you find the area of a parallelogram?  Find out by going to http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid= __shared&cid=emready@area_pt&lid=7 http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid= __shared&cid=emready@area_pt&lid=7  Base of Tennessee (East to West Measurement) = 430 mi  Height of Tennessee (South to North Measurement) = 110 mi

4  How many people live in Tennessee?  Go to http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and find out.http://www.wolframalpha.com/  So what is the average population per square mile of Tennessee?  Next, compare this population per square mile to the population per square mile of Pennsylvania, be prepared to share your solution and reasoning.

5  Check out the Function Machine http://enlvm.usu.edu/m a/nav/activity.jsp?sid=n lvm&cid=4_2&lid=191

6  http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/03088/t oepassing_wisweb.en.html http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/03088/t oepassing_wisweb.en.html

7  http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.js p?sid=__shared&cid=emready@right_tria ngles&lid=1 http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.js p?sid=__shared&cid=emready@right_tria ngles&lid=1

8  http://mathforum.org/mathtools/cell/tr,A LL,ALL,ALL/ http://mathforum.org/mathtools/cell/tr,A LL,ALL,ALL/  http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html  http://www.wolframalpha.com/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/  http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/bb_dlib.js p http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/bb_dlib.js p  http://www.hippocampus.org/ - We didn’t visit this one, but it might be nice for struggling students. You can even view topics by page # from YOUR book. http://www.hippocampus.org/

9  Take some time and explore these applets/manipulatives. Find some that you could integrate into your daily lessons.


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