Solve Multi-Step Problems
Computer Problems
What kinds of math problems could you have to solve in a company that builds computers?
A Classroom Full of Water
How much water would it take to fill up a classroom, in cubic feet and gallons?
Ferret Figures
50 ferrets (25 males, 25 females) are re-introduced into the wild, in a region of Colorado, one year in February. What would you need to know in order to make a good guess as to whether or not that population of ferrets will increase or decrease?
Robot Rover
Testing of the kinds of motors that will be used on the wheels shows that the probability that a motor will fail in 60 days of start-stop-start running is 3 out of a thousand, or 0.003.
Timber Cruise
Using a sample of tree heights and diameters, this lesson gets students to see how foresters use problem solving to get an accurate estimate of the total volume of wood in a forest.
Problem Solving
Bobcat Stats
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