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The 2006 NBA All-Star Game: “How Many High-Fives?” Created By: Teresa Boitz. Ladies and Gentleman, Your 2006 NBA All-Stars! Please Welcome…. LeBron James. Yao Ming. Shaquille O'Neal. Tim Duncan. Vince Carter. 2006 NBA ALL-STAR GAME.
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The 2006 NBA All-Star Game: “How Many High-Fives?” Created By: Teresa Boitz
Ladies and Gentleman, Your 2006 NBA All-Stars! Please Welcome…..
LeBron James Yao Ming Shaquille O'Neal Tim Duncan Vince Carter
2006 NBA ALL-STAR GAME Before the start of the game, all five players high-five each other exactly once. How many high-fives are given?
This is the kind of problem that is hard to do in your head. Let’s draw a diagram so we can see exactly what happens. We’ll start with LeBron James. He’s going to high-five each of the other four players…..
That’s 4 high-fives so far. Now it’s Yao Ming’s turn. But is he going to high-five LeBron James? NO! They already high-fived. So how many players will Yao high-five? Let’s find out….
Now we know that Yao initiated a high-five with 3 players. Add that to LeBron’s 4 high-fives and we have a total of 7 so far. Let’s finish out the rest of the players…
2 for Shaq… One more to go….
And that’s all!! So…. How many total high-fives were given?
1 10 2 5 3 6 8 4 7 9
GREAT JOB!!!
Applicable TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) Grade 6 (11)Underlying processes and mathematical tools. The student applies Grade 6 mathematics to solve problems connected to everyday experiences, investigations in other disciplines, and activities in and outside of school. The student is expected to: (A) identify and apply mathematics to everyday experiences, to activities in and outside of school, with other disciplines, and with other mathematical topics; (B) use a problem-solving model that incorporates understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness; (C) select or develop an appropriate problem-solving strategy from a variety of different types, including drawing a picture, looking for a pattern, systematic guessing and checking, acting it out, making a table, working a simpler problem, or working backwards to solve a problem; and (D) select tools such as real objects, manipulatives, paper/pencil, and technology or techniques such as mental math, estimation, and number sense to solve problems.
The 2006 NBA All-Star Game: “How Many High-Fives?” Created By: Teresa Boitz For CUIN 3111 University of Houston April 2006