Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Groups create and solve problems from almanac facts.

Objective: To use real-life data to write word problems using equations.

Activity: Cooperative groups use an almanac and their own calculators. Their task is to select a factual topic from the almanac, collect necessary data, and write a word problem which sets up an equation. They must solve their own equation.

Assessment: Cooperative efforts of students; understanding of task, and ability to apply what has been learned.