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Created by Allie Blake, Rachel Bossong, & Luke Sanders

  • Grade level: 2nd
  • Math topic: Addition & Subtraction with Length Measurements

Students make predictions about the length of robots that are pieced together and work as a team to test predictions by estimating, measuring, and adding lengths.

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“solving world problems” is a pun on the way that word problems in math often have little to do with students’ real worlds. This site provides resources for engaging every student in math & for connecting math to issues that matter.

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