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Math | Grades 4-8 | Week of March 23
March 21, 2020
Programming Highlights
This week we learn about Decimals, Multiplication and Division by examining the “Breakthrough: The Ideas that Changed the World” episode “The Robot,” which covers the creation of one of the most common and helpful robots: the calculator.
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