How many times bigger?
Listen to students initial thoughts as they wrestle through what "bigger" means ... length? height? wheel-base? volume?
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Act One: What questions come to mind?
How many times gr...
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Do I have enough wrapping paper?
In this problem based activity students first guess and then try to calculate whether they will have enough paper to wrap this present without taping pieces of wrapping paper together.
Con...
Wrapping presents on the diagonal
Dr. Sara Santos is a popular mathematician and speaker on mathematics. She has worked out a method for wrapping boxes (rectangular prisms) as efficiently as possible. (W...
Canstruction
Act One: Take a look at the pic. What questions come to mind?
Just before Thanksgiving there are competitions all over the world to celebrate cool design, tricky engineering, a...
BIG Snickers bar
Act 1 - Big question = How many times bigger than a regular Snickers bar is this?
What info would you like to know?
How are you going to judge how much bigger this ...
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