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The paper pool game provides an opportunity for students to develop their understanding of ratio, proportion, greatest common divisor, and least common multiple.

In the following lessons of this unit, students will have an opportunity to fully explore the patterns that result from the Paper Pool game.

In the first four lessons of this unit, students investigated the Paper Pool game, collected data, identified patterns, and made predictions about the number of hits, the pocket in which the ball lands, and the path of travel.

In this lesson, students continue their investigation by discovering a rule to predict the pocket in which the ball will land.

Finding a rule for the number of hits is only the first step in exploring the Paper Pool game.