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Downside Up

Is there an upside to having a bad day?

Downside Up
by Mathalicious

Instead of measuring how good or bad each day was, imagine the students measured how intense it was. Graph the intensity of each student’s week. Which do you think is more important: how good you feel or how much you feel?