WNET Middle School Math Lessons
Real-World Ratio and Rate Reasoning: How to Power the Skate Park

 

The solar panels and the batteries the CyberSquad planned to use to light the skate park have been sabotaged!

What will the team do to fix the problem?!

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  • Why does Jackie say that the team needs to come up with a new idea for the solar panels?
  • What does she recommend they do and why?
  • What’s the area of the new solar panels? How they figure that out? What’s the math?