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Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild Unit PlanPbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild Unit Plan
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PBS
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3rd - 5th
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1010L
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Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild

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In this Cyberchase video, Bianca and her friend go camping and soon realize that Bianca has left the food at home. They find a vending machine in the woods, but it doesn't dispense the food that corresponds with the numbers Bianca presses. After several attempts to get her favorite candy bar, Bianca discovers a pattern, or rule. Each time she enters a number, she gets a snack labeled with the number she pressed plus two (n + 2). In the accompanying classroom activity, students play a dice game in pairs in which one student applies a rule in secret that the other student must guess. Points are awarded for correct guesses, and students are penalized for incorrect guesses.

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Concepts

patterns, relationships

Additional Tags

pbs, pattern identification

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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