Where's the Firehouse?

Abstract

Students will be tasked with finding the best location for a firehouse given houses along a street, which are represented as points on a line. The worksheet and accompanying GeoGebra sketch will not tell students how to approach the task, leading students to practice reasoning skills. In this paper, I will argue that rich tasks such as this one will benefit students more on end of course assessments under the Common Core and PARCC, and in mathematics classes in general.

Keywords: absolute-value, piecewise, rich task

Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · ISSN 2162-3856  ·  North American GeoGebra Journal