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Update
01-01-2015
Content Type
Lesson Plan
Grade Level
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
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PPT
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Students will decode a letter for George Washington by solving eight algebra-based math problems stressing the importance of the order of operations. Using their answers and the Culper Code, a spy code used during the American Revolution, students will fill in the blanks of Culper Spy Ring member Caleb Brewter’s 1781 letter to George Washington.