Dear Student,
Welcome to Building Formulas.
Throughout this unit, you will study many kinds of formulas.
You will learn to identify the parts that make up a formula and create
your own formulas. You will help with the construction of a movie
set by creating a formula for determining the numbers of blue and
white tiles and metal rods needed.
Do you know how to find the area of
a lichen, a fungus that grows nearly
everywhere? Scientists use the size
of a lichen to calculate how long ago
a glacier disappeared.
You will also work with formulas that someone else created,
such as a formula for converting from degrees Celsius to
degrees Fahrenheit and formulas that archaeologists use
to re-create ancient Egyptian drawings.
Upon completing this unit, you should understand the
meanings of the different parts of a formula, how to
graph formulas, how to rewrite formulas, and how to
use formulas that you find.
Sincerely,
The Mathematics in Context Development Team
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