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Students will find the information to calculate how many times we could fill up a jet plane using the fuel that would fit in an olympic-sized pool.
First, students will need to figure out how much water is in an olympic-sized pool, pick a plane, and determine much fuel that plane can hold.
I’ll reveal how many times I could fill up my jet plane.
Students will figure out much pasta they can cook using the water in an olympic-sized pool.
First, students will need to figure out how much water is in an olympic-sized pool and how much water you need for a pound of pasta.
I reveal my calculations – which may or may not be the same as what students arrived at. And that’s ok!
Students will find the information they need to calculate how many 2 liter bottles they could fill up using the water in an olympic-sized pool.
First, students will need to figure out how much water is in an olympic-sized pool.
I reveal my calculations – which may or may not be the same as what students arrived at. And that’s ok!
Students will balance various requirements in order to find the perfect gifts for their very special friends.
Students look for gifts that have a large volume while balancing a low price.
Next, they find gifts that are heavy, but don’t take up much space. And also are as cheap as possible.
For the third gift, students are looking for something long – maximizing one dimension while minimizing the other two. They’ll also want to save money.
Use this step whenever you’d like. Students can write a letter explaining their thought process behind the gift(s) they chose.
Students will calculate the volume of laptops throughout history using the formula for the volume of a rectangular prism.
Find five laptops from across history (this Wikipedia page is a nice starting point) and jot down essential information..
Calculate the volume of their five laptops, estimating them as rectangular prisms.
Pick their two favorite laptops and sketch them using this triangular dot grid paper to create accurate, 3d scaled drawings.
Explore shapes with equivalent volumes. They will redistribute the volume of one of their laptops into a new, 3D shape. Same volume but different dimensions.
Finally, students will build two of their sketches: the laptop’s original dimensions and then a model of the reconfigured dimensions with an equivalent volume. Naturally, they can continue extending this idea by finding equivalent volumes of other items or building on the marketing of their “new laptop design.”