An interactive blog where students are encouraged to explore the math they encounter in their world.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Mini-Golf
We were playing mini golf last night and we found this neat hole on a catus. Check out this link to learn more about Sagauro cacti. Sagauro Wiki
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Desk Duck By The Pool
I don't have any math problems to share, but I wanted to let you know I'm in Arizona and I'm enjoying some time at the pool! I hope you guys are enjoying your springbreak!!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Help! Are These Pizzas Really "Smurf-Sized"?
Last night at dinner, Dane told the boys these pizzas were "Smurf-sized". You know how I feel about accurate proportional reasoning, so I had to disagree with him. These pizzas have a diameter of about 6 cm and that seemed like it was the wrong size to me. Dane argued that no one can really know because we don't know how tall the smurfs are in the cartoon. I argued that we have plenty of benchmarks to judge the height of the smurfs. After all, Gargamel isn't a giant and he has a normal sized cat. Can you help us settle our debate? Here is a link to some very important research: Smurf Wiki and Smurf.com
Friday, March 12, 2010
Golden Gate Fun
The picture with the sign says that one of the giant cables is 24,500 tons. I only weigh 2 ounces. How many of my friends would it take to equal that?
There is some glare on the sign and it actually says that the main span is 4200 feet long. It also says that 80,000 miles of wire was used in total. How many times could that wire cross the bridge?
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