Chicago Math
The mathematical formula used to determine how much Chicago homicides dropped when they fell by 29%?
What is the Percentage Decrease formula?
Reading strategy of similarities and differences between two texts.
What is compare and contrast?
The historic document signed in 1776 that declared American independence but excluded enslaved populations.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Short-term daily conditions.
What is weather?
Two-Thirds as a fraction, percentage, decimal.
What is 2/3, 67%, 0.666666?
Chicago homicides Juneteenth, year 2023 dropped from 13 fatalaties to 8 in year 2024. Increase or decrease. Round answer to the nearest tenth.
What is decrease & 38.5%
R.A.C.E. Strategy
What is restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence, explain with examples?
Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 legally declaring enslaved people in Confederate states as free.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Long-term averages of regional atmospheric conditions.
What is climate?
Three homonyms that include a number.
What is to, two, and too?
Dataset of Fatalities -- 13, 11, 8, 19, 8, 7, 8, 3 -- Mean, Median, Mode, Range, rounded to the nearest whole number
What is mean 10 (9.625), median 8, mode 8, and range 16?
Defined as "the act of setting someone free from slavery or legal restrictions".
What is emancipation?
Specific branch of social studies covers the rights, duties, and roles of citizens, which is tested heavily when comparing federal holidays.
What is Civics?
The body of water directly creates "lake effect" snow and cooling breezes in Chicago.
What is Lake Michigan?
In a dataset of 5 monthly crime totals--400, 450, 450, 500, 700--what is the median?
What is 450?
Vertical axis representation on the bar graph.
What are firearm-related incidents?
PIE
What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
The Constitutional Amendment officially abolishing slavery throughout the entire United States in December 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
According to the chart, date and highest temperature recorded.
What is June 19, 2024, 93 degrees?
A city dashboard shows a 20% drop in carjackings from a peak of 200 incidents. How many incidents occur now?
What is 160?
The average of individuals shot during the July 4th data set. Round to the nearest whole number.
What is 62?
An author presents facts without expressing personal feelings or opinions.
What is Inform?
A city in Texas where Union General Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865.
What is Galveston?
Based on the chart, climate "mode" in order.
What is 3-sunny, 3-thunderstorms, 2-some storms?
If a crime rate is stated as 25 per 100,000 residents, how many total incidents would occur in a city with 2.6 million residents?
What is 650?