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The NCAA Basketball Tournament is a 68 team, single-elimination, tournament. How many games are played in the tournament?

How do students figure this out? Can they define "single elimination"? - in math defining terms is always critical - the NCAA College Baseball World Series gets a very different answer. This will demonstrate your students' logic mapping abilities.

What's 9x12?

What's 9x6?

What if you don't know that part of the multiplication table? Your memory has failed you at this moment and you need to know? How do you construct an answer?

It's 50 degrees in Detroit, Michigan. What is the temperature likely to be in Windsor, Ontario?

Check for knowledge base: Can students identify that Detroit and Windsor are in different nations? That those nations use different temperature scales?

Without leading them, can they, in groups, determine what those temperature scales are? How they differ?

Can they determine the necessary order of operations?