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Students read the sports section of the daily newspaper to find daily totals of what countries have won medals and find articles to keep in their journal (notebook) on the different events and athletes. They then create a spreadsheet to keep track of the medals won.

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the olympic games

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olympics, math
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6th - 8th
Subjects
Math
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Database & Spreadsheet

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