Having Trouble Viewing the Video? Click Here Mountain To Climb Your Mountain to Climb is to figure out what is the best shot from the cue ball to each of the colored balls on the table and what angle or angles would be involved in getting that ball into a pocket. Then you need to make a recommendation to Ms.
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Having Trouble Viewing the Video? Click Here Mountain to Climb This week’s challenge is to figure out if one can of paint will be enough to cover the Portal Peak Basement floor twice. Remember 1 can can cover 350 sq ft. Seeking the Peak Map of the Basement What is area? Area and Perimeter Rap Beyond the Peak Article: The
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Having Trouble Viewing the Video? Click here Mountain to Climb How many examples of simple machines can you find around your house, apartment, classroom, neighborhood, or backyard? How do they make work easier? Seeking the Peak How Simple Machines Work Video What is a Simple Machine Brain Pop Jr Simple Machines Video (You need a log in) Brain Pop Simple
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Having Trouble Viewing the Video? Click Here Mountain to Climb How many different possibilities are there for who committed the crime, in what room, and with what object? What is the probability that Mr. C could get it right on his first guess? Remember there are 6 characters, 9 rooms, and 6 objects that could have been used in the
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Imagine you live in one of the countries where clean water is not even to come by. Let’s say you fill a 10-liter container of water at the nearest well. You now have to walk 2 miles home but your jug of water has a crack in it and water is dripping out at
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Figure out how Ms. Costa and Mr. C got to their final score of 21-19. Be sure to pay attention to some of the details of the game that were shared in the video. Seeking the Peak: Here is an example of what your Reaching the Peak should include: If
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, your mountain to climb this week is to figure out how many different outfits Ms. Costa could make with the clothes in her laundry. Remember she has 4 pairs of pants, 5 shirts, and 6 sweaters. Is Ms. Costa right? Can she make over 100 outfits? Seeking the Peak:
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, Mr. C and Ms. Costa figured out their PPM (pages per minute). Now want to know how long it will take them to read the three books on the shelf. Once you figure that out, find your PPM and figure out how long it would take you to read the
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, your mountain to climb this week is to calculate how much water you and your family use on a daily basis, then come up with a detailed action plan that you can follow to help limit the amount of water you waste. Seeking the Peak: Use this Water Usage Conversion
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, you have three things to figure out about our road trip: How far (how many miles) did we travel in total? How long did the entire trip take us? If we began at 7:08am, what time did we end our journey? Seeking the Peak: Hey Navigators, we think that most
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