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Resource: Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame

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Length: 4m 27s
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In this video segment from TV411, two professional basketball players plan a trip from Atlanta, Georgia to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Using a road map of the United States and a ruler, they figure out the distance they must travel. To calculate how long the trip will take, they focus on the map’s legend and their predicted driving speed.

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Teachers' Domain, Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame, published September 9, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.math.number.rat.aimhallfam/

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What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame: When you look at a map, what kinds of features do you see? Is it possible to tell how far it is from one city to another on a map? Where do you find information on a map that would help you figure out distances between two points?

Focus: As you watch this video segment, you’ll see that the basketball players spend a lot of time figuring out how long the trip from Atlanta to Springfield will take. How do they figure this out? Where do they get their numbers from?