Headline Story
Rules and Patterns, #10
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Introduction
Read the Headline Story to the students. Encourage them to create problems that can be solved using information from the story.
Headline Story
Gene and his two friends will go on a ride at the amusement park. Gene thinks they will need exactly 20 tickets in all.
Possible student responses
- We need to find out how many tickets the ride costs.
- If the ride costs 5 tickets, Gene and his friends need 15 tickets.
- If it costs 6 tickets, they will need 18 tickets, and if it costs 7 tickets, they will need 21 in all.
- Twenty tickets cannot be correct. They will need a multiple of 3, and 20 is not a multiple of 3.
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