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  Media Clips: Safe Havens and The Aral Sea

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Larry Lesser

May 2008, Volume 101, Issue 9, Page 690

Abstract:
Students analyze items from the media to answer mathematical questions related to the article. Safe Havens deals with the normal distribution and graphs, while the Aral Sea has an environmental theme. Students will have to use calculus to compute the volume of a solid of revolution. Eited by Margaret Cibes and James Greenwood.

Classification:
Graphs/Data Representation

Additional Keywords:
Integrals, Data Representation

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