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Connecting Math to Our Lives

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Students participate in an online interactive forum to explore how math is used in their families and communities. They design games to submit to other students online, and identify and organize data to solve the problems from other online students.

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math applications, real-world applications

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math in the community, online interactive math forum, real-world math, math
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K - 12th
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Math
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