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You can see that the spider has followed a line around the inside of the box.In the second image, the student has "unfolded" that box and drawn a template.

Is there a way to draw the template so that the spider's path will be one connected path on the unfolded template?












.: [MS Math], [Illustrative Math], [Puzzle].

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A small company wants to give raises to their 5 employees. They have $10,000 available to distribute. Imagine that you are in charge of deciding how the raises should be determined.


  1. What are some variables you should consider?

  2. Describe mathematically as many different methods you can think of to distribute the raises. (We came up with nine; can you beat that?)

  3. What information will you need to compute those raises according to your various methods?

  4. Which of your methods do you feel is the most fair?

Use an atbash cipher decoder: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/atbash.php

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  2. vjfzo kvixvmgztv yzhvw lm hzozib.

  3. mvklgrhn: 1p, 1p, 1p, 1p, Ldmvi'h hlm: 6p.

  4. R'n lmv lu gsv vnkolbvvh: 0p, 0p, 0p, 0p, nv: 10p

  5. kilwfxgrergb tlzoh: 1p, 1p, 2p, 2p, 4p

  6. olggvib, zoo li mlgsrmt.

  7. olggvib, 0p, 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p.

  8. zokszyvgrxzo liwvi, 0p, 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p.

  9. vnkolbvv'h xsrow'h gvhg hxlivh rm gsv olxzo hxsllo ... ru gsviv'h ml rnkilevnvmg, ml ylmfh.


.: [ALL], [Illustrative Math], [Which Would You Choose?].
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