Download The Situation A homeowner tiled her floor with pennies to make the beautiful design seen below. The Challenge(s) How much were those pennies? Question(s) To Ask These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: What’s a guess that is too low? What’s a guess that is too high? What’s…
This problem’s success depends on students having a sufficient understanding of how a plane measures a vehicle’s speed from the air. The picture below may be useful to help “develop the question” as Dan Meyer has recently blogged about.
You are hosting a barbeque that starts very soon and you want to make as many biscuits as possible with the ingredients you already have. How many biscuits can you make using the available ingredients? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: What ingredients do you need to…
How many times bigger should the school be? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: How big would the school be if it was twice as big? How big would the school be if it was five times as big? What size would a student have to…
How much money is that? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: What is a guess that is too low? What is a guess that is too high? What is your best guess? What options do you have for counting this money and what are the…
What fraction is Mini-Me of Dr. Evil? How tall would Mini-Me have to be to be one eighth of Dr. Evil’s size? How tall would Dr. Evil have to be if Mini-Me really was one eighth his size? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: What…
You are in a car on the freeway and see this sign. How can you tell which exit is closest to you? How can you tell which exit is farthest from you? How would you show how far apart the freeway exits are on a map? Which exits are closest together? How far…
Sunspots create solar flares that can damage satellites in orbit, disable GPS systems, and cause power failures in cities. The larger the sunspot, the higher the chance of creating a powerful solar flare. How big is Sunspot AR 1476? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path:…
Many theme parks like Disneyland and Universal Studios offer annual passes where customers can pay for the whole year in advance or pay a little in the beginning and make smaller payments each month for the rest of the year. Which payment option saves you the most money? These questions may be…
These children are using a radar gun to figure out how many miles per hour they can throw a baseball. Find out how many miles per hour you throw a baseball without using a radar gun. These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path: What information would…
How big of a building would all the cigarette butts littered every day in the United States fill? A classroom? An auditorium? A stadium? How long would it take to fill a ____________? How long would a line of cigarette butts littered each day measure? These questions may be useful in helping…
