Measurement: A Long Movie
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Objective
Students will determine which unit is most likely if a movie is 0.017 long. Then… the real fun begins.
The goal is to get students thinking about what makes sense. Practice estimating. Practice interpreting numbers. There are so many directions you could take this.
Inspired by a question asked in Accessible Mathematics.
Steps
- I tell students that I've just finished an epic movie that was 0.017 long. They have to determine which unit I'm using.
- I offer some scaffolding help to get kids started on their unit conversions (not necessary for all students).
- Then, we wonder how long this movie would be if measured in months?
- Now, we determine the length of the movie when measured in days on Venus!
- Finally, students can pick their own unit of time to measure the length of this long movie.
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