1. Your family is going on a road trip. Your family’s vehicle gets 22
miles per gallon of gas. Looking
at the price of Unleaded fuel above, if you have budgeted $200 for gas, how
many miles can you go before you run out of gas? (You can round the nearest whole number)
a.) Look at a map and decide
possible places for your destination.
Remember you can only go as far as $200 of gas will get you! Draw a line from point A (our
community) to point B (your destination) on your map [integrating map work].
2. You are traveling with four people including yourself and
you need snacks for the ride.
You decide to buy sandwiches from QD for a snack, but there are only
three sandwiches left (oh no!). Decide
how you can feed all four people the same amount of food with only three
sandwiches. Use a representation
of your choice to solve the problem so no one goes hungry!
Caitlin, I love all the different components you included in your problems! Both of these questions are extremely relatable to the students lives, and who doesn't want to pretend they're going on a road trip?! Both of your tasks are open-ended and allow the students for coming up with different options. This will be especially beneficial when the students are able to discuss these problems as a whole. I especially love that in problem #2 you don't suggest that the students will need to partition to divide up the food. It is also great that they have the freedom to come up with their own representations!
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