Math Snacks

Smart and yummy educational animations, mini–games, and interactive tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts.

Bad Date

Bad Date includes:

Learner's Guide | Teacher's Guide | Video (below)

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What do you do when someone asks if you listen to country music backwards, but won't give you the chance to answer?

In this humorous animation, who speaks how many words turns out to determine whether a date goes well or horribly.

Bad Date addresses number and operations standards and the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It guides students in:

Understanding and using ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships.
Developing, analyzing, and explaining methods for solving problems involving proportions, such as scaling and finding equivalent ratios.
Solving problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.

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© 2010 NMSU Board of Regents. All rights reserved. "Math Snacks" materials were developed with support from the National Science Foundation (0918794). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Some materials were originally prototyped or discussed as part of a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Education (U295A050004).NMSU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educator. NMSU and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating.