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Course, Subject

Algebra I (Next Generation), Algebra II (Next Generation), Math, Science & Technology, Mathematics (NYS P-12 Next Generation)

Virtual Manipulative

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Description

This web-based interactive resource is a spin off of the game Connect Four. This game challenges students to solve for a variable "x" within a given time limit in order to get a piece to play on the board. The problems range from simple two-step problems to quadratics. There can also be a time limit imposed for added difficulty by putting the student under time restraints.

Content Provider

The Shodor Foundation is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modeling and simulation technologies. For more information, please visit www.shodor.org.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

NY-6.NS.4 Find the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less than or equal to 100. Use the distributive property to express a sum of two whole numbers 1–100 with a common factor as a multiple of a sum of two whole numbers with no common factor other than 1. Find the least common multiple of two whole numbers less than or equal to 12.

NY-6.EE.6 Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem. Understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.

NY-6.EE.7 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x + p = q; x – p = q; px = q; and x/p = q for cases in which p, q, and x are all nonnegative rational numbers.

NY-7.NS.1d Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract rational numbers.

NY-7.NS.2a Understand that multiplication is extended from fractions to rational numbers by requiring that operations continue to satisfy the properties of operations, particularly the distributive property, leading to products such as (–1)(–1) = 1 and the rules for multiplying signed numbers. Interpret products of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.

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