Pencil-and-Paper Activity:
Aspirin Math for Middle Schoolers
Relevant National Science Education
Standards
Science in
Personal and Social Perspectives — The activity clearly shows the impact
of science on a personal health issue, namely physical pain. Relevant New Jersey State Science Curriculum
Standards
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Science and
Technology — The technology of pain relief is central to the problems.
5.3
All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for
problem-solving in science and as a means of expressing and/or
modeling scientific theories.
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