Making Green Paint

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• ActivitySheet - MakingGreenPaintwithProportionPlayground-Matassa.pdf - 132 kB
• WarmUp - MakingGreenPaintwithProportionPlayground-Matassa.pdf - 123 kB
• Instructions - MakingGreenPaintwithProportionPlayground-Matassa.pdf - 404 kB
• Lesson - MakingGreenPaintwithProportionPlayground-Matassa.pdf - 290 kB

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Title	Making Green Paint
Description	Students use relative thinking to solve mixing problems using a paint mixing simulation and contrast absolute (additive) thinking and relative (multiplicative) thinking when reflecting on the activity during partner and whole group discussion.
Subject	Mathematics
Level	Middle School
Type	Discussion Prompts, Guided Activity
Duration	90 minutes
Answers Included	No
Language	English
Keywords	ratios
Simulation(s)	Proportion Playground (HTML5)

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Author(s)	Michael Matassa
Contact Email	michael.matassa@colorado.edu
School / Organization	University of Colorado Boulder
Date submitted	6/6/17
Date updated	6/6/17