The Back Page: My Favorite Lesson – The Purple Milk Problem

Kasi C. Allen

doi:10.5951/mathteacher.105.7.0560

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The Back Page: My Favorite Lesson – The Purple Milk Problem

Author: Kasi C. Allen

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 105: Issue 7

Page(s):: 560

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteacher.105.7.0560

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Subjects:: Grade(s) or Audience, Grades 9-12, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Math Topic, Algebra, Functions and Trigonometry, Functions, Other Topic, Problem Solving, Teaching and Learning Instruction, Cooperative Learning

Keywords:: CCSS.Math.Content.HSF-BF.A.1a; CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-CED.A.2; CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-CED.A.3

In this favorite lesson, students must engage in cooperative problem solving and think outside the algebra box as they work to make sense of the Purple Milk problem.

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^*Kasi C. Allen, kasi@lclark.edu, a teacher and researcher, is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

(Corresponding author is Allen kasi@lclark.edu)

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Article Category:: Research Article

Print Publication Date:: 01 Mar 2012

Online Publication Date:: Mar 2012

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