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Spaghetti Bridges

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Eighth graders experiment with building bridges of spaghetti, pennies, and a cup to determine how varying the number of spagetti pieces affects the strength of the bridge. They graph their results and interpret the data.

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data collection, data

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data collection, Predicting, math
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8th
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Math
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