Randall Hayes

Graduate of Missouri Southern and Pittsburg State University. Math Teacher Webb City High School.

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My Mantra in life...
In life, always do more than you have to.

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Coming to a baseball field near you! Watch out!

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Kids sold it perfectly

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If you're looking for math that is in the news for your classroom. Great resource is Numlock News. Check it out. You can subscribe for free.

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Hey Steve, since you are from Kansas, why don't you mention the Kansas State License Plate fiasco on the morning show? We don't like our choices here in Kansas. @SteveDoocy

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Webb City is headed to the district championship!

The Cardinals win a walk-off over Belton tonight. They'll face McDonald County for the district title Monday.

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Chess has been seeing a huge rise in popularity lately. Three years ago, https://t.co/higJUpV6C2 had an average daily user count of 1.5 million. Now, they see 12 million users each day.

On average, how many users have they gained each day over the last three years?

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This season, the MLB introduced a pitch clock, limiting the time between pitches. The average length of a Spring Training game went from 3 hours 1 minute last year to 2 hours 35 minutes this year.

What was the percent decrease in game length?

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie had the largest opening weekend for any animated movie ever, bringing in $204.6 million in the US and another $172.4 million from other countries.

As a pie chart, what central angles represent the two categories?

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In an interview on December 11, 2003, the musician Sting confirmed that he receives royalties from Diddy for the song “I’ll Be Missing You”. Yesterday, Diddy named the payment as $5000/day.

How much has Sting been paid in royalties since the interview?

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Watch a teacher make roughly ~1,000 instructional decisions in about 45 seconds. Only a few of them are about the lesson but the lesson depends on ALL of them. This is one of the hardest things to explain about teaching to people who have never taught.

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Today’s source: https://t.co/46wbbMuPCF
Lego has recently expanded its market to China, where Lego bricks are becoming popular for the first time.

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Today’s source: https://t.co/7O61T9hIOX
The pitch clock is also changing; it will be 15 seconds when all bases are empty and 20 seconds when a runner is present.

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Today’s source: https://t.co/6XyTqEZp8v
There are also casualties of the war; Ukraine has lost 13,000 service personnel and 7000 civilians since the war began.

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Today marks the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine. At the start of the war, the population of Ukraine was about 41.9 million. 19% of the population has fled the country, mostly to neighboring Poland and Romania.

How many people are still in the country?

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NASA has confirmed that a meteor struck Earth last week near the community of McAllen, Texas. The meteor was approximately 60 cm in diameter and was around 454 kg.

What was its density?

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Today’s source: https://t.co/rohUVZvrzO
This article was sent to me by a friend who pointed out the unique units of measure: the meteor was the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and weighed about four baby elephants.

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The TSA found 6542 guns that people had in their luggage last year. In 2017, the TSA found an average 10.8 guns per day.

Describe the changes in the last five years.

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Today’s source: https://t.co/JIgCdKbDKz
I was surprised to read the consequences vary wildly from state to state , from arrests and hefty fines to finding a friend who will take the gun home for you.

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In time for Valentines Day, the record for Longest Underwater Kiss has been broken. The old record was 3 minutes 24 seconds. A South African freediving champion and her Canadian partner beat that by 42 seconds.

Compare the records with a simplified improper fraction.

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In 1987, parking spaces were 8’9”, with a 4” stripe between them. This was plenty of space for the most common car, a 66” wide Ford Escort. Today’s spaces are 9’ with 4” stripes, and the most common vehicle is a 79” wide F-150.

By what percent have we lost space between cars?

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This data shows the cost of a 30s Super Bowl commercial over time.
Draw a line of best fit, and use it to predict this year’s price.

Year-Ad price (in Millions):
07-2.7
08-2.7
09-3.0
10-2.8
11-3.0
12-3.5
13-3.8
14-4.0
15-4.5
16-4.8
17-5.0
18-5.0
19-5.2
20-5.6