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March 30 Math Teacher Puzzle: Jaime Escalante, Presidential Awardee | Review

March 30 is a day to remember Jaime Escalante, a math teacher who developed methods to enable struggling students to ultimately take AP Calculus in high school. This mixed review has these topics: Power of a Power Property, Negative Exponent Property, solve a multi-step equation, and area of a series of rectangles to estimate the area under a curve. Escalante received the Presidential Medal for Excellence in Education in 1988, and he is the subject of the 1988 movie, Stand and Deliver.

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1-page printable Student Puzzle
1-page Answer Key with sample solutions
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