In our textbook, a question is posed about the Asano Taiko Company of Japan. The larges drum, being 4.9 meters in diameter and about 4.5 meters high, the students questioned how big a cubic meter was. A couple of my students, who enjoy putting together things, offered to put together the meter sticks (after... Continue Reading →
Don’t Mess with Texas or the Right Answers!
What an interesting end to my class this Friday. Some days we struggle to get through the topics... esp when it is just practicing the formulas for our Surface Area and Volume. But for my kids to argue about the answer to a problem,... it was sweet! (And by argue, I mean discuss in... Continue Reading →