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5th Grade Performance Task

Contributed by: The RAND Institute (RAND)

Students are asked to formulate a hypothesis and design an experiment to examine the relationship between block weight and the number of washers required to pull a block across various surfaces. After performing their experiment, students are asked to graph results from a described experiment and to apply their findings to a practical situation.



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