Oral Presentation Articles

• Arizona immigration law - Article
• Workplace discrimination against black employees - Article
• Workplace discrimination against Arab-Americans - Article
• Bioethics and racial discrimination - Article
• Overrepresentation of blacks in the penal system - Article
• Under-representation of African-Americans in certain sports - Article
• Lack of wealth for single black women - Article
• Inability of felons to have voting rights restored - Article Article 2
• Black or Biracial? - Article Article 2
• What is Latino? - Article
• Racial discrimination linked to depression in children - Article
• Black on asian violence - Article
• White caricatures of racial stereotypes - Article Article 2 Article 3
• Housing discrimination in renting - Article
• Reverse-Redlining - Article
• Loan discrimination against black farmers - Article
• Dreadlocks: stereotypes and cultural assimilation - Article
• Racial health disparities - Article Article 2 Article 3
• Black unemployment - Article
• Workplace discrimination against ESL speakers - Article

Americas Test

POW #17

a) It is has been snowing at Ingrid’s house all week, but today the sun was out. Ingrid decided to make some snow sculptures in the backyard. Ingrid scooped the snow out of a rectangular hole that measured 2 feet by 2 feet by 3 feet, and she used that snow to make bricks that measured 6 inches by 8 inches by 9 inches. How many snow bricks could she make with the snow from the rectangular hole?

If the above problem is too easy, try the following:

b) Ingrid’s friend Reed came over, and together they scooped the snow out of a cubical hole that measured 3 feet on each side. With the snow they scooped out of the hole, they made right pyramids with square bases, which measured 1 foot along each side of the base, and were one foot tall. How many pyramids of this size could they make with the snow from the cubical hole?

Race POAI Test Videos

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Geometry Puzzles

Here are some challenging geometry POW's that you can use:

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POW #16

Sharing Candy

Tommy has a 1.69 ounce bag of M&M's. The bag contains 56 M&M's. He decides to share his candy by giving Lucy two-thirds of three-fourths of his M&M's. Lucy decides to share her M&M's with Melissa by giving Melissa two-thirds of three-fourths of her M&M's. If half of Melissa's M&M's are red, how many red M&M's does she have?

POW #15

Upright Integers

An integer is defined as upright if the sum of its first two digits equals its third digit. For example, 145 is an upright integer since 1 + 4 = 5. How many positive three-digit integers are upright?

OR

Man Wrinkle

Man Wrinkle spent one-fourth of his life as a boy, one-eighth as a youth, and one-half as an active man. If man wrinkle spent 12 years as an old man, then how many years did he spend as an active man?