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One or more of the students in your class asks:
"Why do we have to learn the metric system?"

How do you respond?
A student in your class calculating the slope between points (8,5) and (8,20) gets 15/0. Using their calculator, the result of 15/0 shows "Error". They ask you "How can a calculator make an error?".

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One or more of the students in your class asks:

"Why do we have to learn the metric system?"

How do you respond?

A student in your class calculating the slope between points (8,5) and (8,20) gets 15/0. Using their calculator, the result of 15/0 shows "Error". They ask you "How can a calculator make an ...

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