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The Devil and Daniel Webster

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A lesson plan for grades 9–12 English Language Arts and Mathematics

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics


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This interdisciplinary lesson allows students to examine a recursive sequence in a game between the Devil and Daniel Webster. Illuminations provides an activity sheet, solutions for the activity, a link to a helpful spreadsheet, and detailed instructions for completing the lesson.

Students will:

  • Use recursive or iterative forms to represent relationships.
  • Approximate and interpret rates of change from numerical data.
  • Draw reasonable conclusions about a situation being modeled.

NCTM Standards and Expectations:

  • Generalize patterns using explicitly defined and recursively defined functions.
  • Analyze functions of one variable by investigating rates of change, intercepts, zeros, asymptotes, and local and global behavior.
  • Understand relations and functions and select, convert flexibly among, and use various representations for them.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 11

  • Goal 5: The learner will interpret and evaluate representative texts to deepen understanding of literature of the United States.
    • Objective 5.02: Analyze the relationships among United States authors and their works by:
      - making and supporting valid responses about the text through references to other works and authors.
      -comparing texts to show similarities or differences in themes, characters, or ideas.