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=G.R.A.S.P.S= = = Presentation – performance, justification, clarity of Speech, enthusiasm, preparation, and collaboration ||
 * Goal || Students will show an understanding of how to graph linear equations and solve linear systems by researching gas prices from different states, finding a linear trend for two different years, writing a news report and broadcasting it on camera. ||
 * Role || News reporters attempting to sell their broadcast footage ||
 * Audience || The executive board at Channel 5 KOOL ||
 * Setting || Assuming linear gas price trends, make predictions about the future, determine when the prices are the same and in what year. ||
 * Presentation || An iMovie presentation that shows the research and mathematics conducted. This will be presented to the board of executives at KOOL. ||
 * Standards || Product – performance, accuracy of content, accuracy of mathematics, production quality, collaboration, and resources and credit.

=Introduction= There are new broadcasting companies cropping up all over the place nowadays and they all want to get their hands on the fresh new faces of news reporting. This is your big chance to change the face of news broadcasting!

=Task= It’s a new day and age in news reporting! Channel 5 KOOL is looking for news reporters who understand mathematics and can use it in everyday discussion. Channel 5 KOOL and its board of executives are sending out a prize for the best report using mathematics. If you can show that your footage is better than the thousands of other applicants, you may just land yourself a new reporting job and will have the distinctive honor of having your footage shown live on a KOOL broadcast. The board is really interested in your ability to think about contemporary issues. So, they have issued the following: The country is really tense about gas prices and that’s what you have been assigned to discuss. You and your co-anchor will be responsible for researching the gas prices from two different years in two states of your choosing. It’s your job to do all the mathematics to predict where the price of gas will be in the future. In addition to determining when the two states had the same gas price. What year was it, and how much was gas? Your broadcast footage will be shown to the board of KOOL. Good luck!

=Conclusion= Now you can tell that there are more uses for the ideas of graphing than simple numbers on a piece of paper, information gained by statistics or other sources can be translated into lines and systems and worked with as such. Real people use this information and draw conclusions from ordered pairs, graphs, and intersections of lines. Now you can too! Good luck on getting your new job!