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the BUNGEE
BUSINESS

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The CEO of Bridge Bungees, a newly formed bungee jumping business, has hired your team to help the business with financial analysis and safety research. Will the business be able to make money? How long will their bungee cords need to be? Are the bridges strong enough to support the stress? 

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SECTION 1 

Build spreadsheets to help Bridge Bungees understand how their pricing decisions will impact how many people can afford their jumps and how profitable they can expect their business to be.

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SECTION 2

Experiment with rubber band bungees to build a model for bungee cord length that Bridge Bungees can use to safely select cords for their jumpers.

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SECTION 3

Test the breaking weight of different bridges to investigate the relationship between bridge strength and different variables in the bridge design.

UNIT  PROBLEM

Lesson 1

THE BUNGEE BUSINESS

Problem of the Week

1, 2, 3, 4 EXPRESSIONS

Teacher Guide

SECTION 1

EXPRESSIONS and EQUIVALENCE​​

  • Can I create and interpret expressions?

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  • Can I explain what it means for expressions to be equivalent?

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  • Can I test for and justify equivalence?

Lesson 2

ALPHABET SOUP

Lesson 3

BUSINESS EXPRESSIONS

Lesson 4

TRUSS PATTERNS

Lesson 5 (Formative Assessment)

THE POWER OF WHY

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Teacher Guide

SECTION 2

REPRESENTATIONS OF FUNCTIONS

  • Can I explain how rules, tables, and graphs are connected?

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  • When given one of these, can I build and use the others?​​

Lesson 7

SAFETY FIRST

Lesson 8

REPRESENTING YOUR BUNGEE

Lesson 9

BETTER BUNGEES

Lesson 10 (Formative Assessment)

PREDICTING THE PRICE

Lesson 11

REPRESENTATIONS CARD SORT

Teacher Guide

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Teacher Guide

SECTION 3

THE FUNCTION CONCEPT

  • Can I describe relationships using words and symbols?

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  • Can I explain what a function is (and isn't)?​​

Lesson 12

LAYERS, LENGTH, AND STRENGTH

Teacher Guide

Lesson 13

THE STRENGTH OF NOTATION

Teacher Guide

Lesson 14

BUNGEE FUNCTIONS

Teacher Guide

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

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