Have 1 of 8 slices from a 10″ pizza OR 1 of 10 slices from a 14″ pizza?
Whichever option you choose, justify your reasoning with mathematics.
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http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m93697
Here’s one with scaffolding:
http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m93700
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1/8 slices from a 10′ pizza.
Why?
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Love this site John. Really great thinking here for all of us. 😀
Thank you Teresa!
The pizza on the left looks so much better! I’ll take that one. (Sorry, not the point, huh?)
Original Applets had an error in the final calculation:
Here are the fixed links (if it hasn’t already been changed on wyr site)
http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m93697
http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m93700
Good stuff!!!
Our class thinks the pizza on the right looks better. We agreed that 1/8 of the 10″ pizza would be more so we would like to take that piece.