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Attention middle school teachers!
Check out this three-act task where students will engage in discourse on an airplane’s altitude and distance to the airport to calculate its descent ratio. Note that Act 1 of the task is free to access, but you need an NCTM membership to view Acts 2-3.
More details at nctm.link/w0spb.