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Quincy Market. [A Product of] the Regional Math Network: A Teacher Invigoration and Curriculum Development Project.

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Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1987

In this middle school mathematics unit two imaginary characters, Horatio and Portia, decide to make their fortune in Quincy Market (Boston, Massachusetts) running a Bull Market cart. In order to solve the problems that they encounter, they need to learn ratio and proportion, map reading, estimation, area and perimeter, population sampling, problem…

Descriptors: Area, Economics, Estimation (Mathematics), Map Skills