Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Math: Estimating and Measuring Using Non-Standard Units

Today we took up the homework from yesterday and I gave them a question for homework: find one use that we have for estimating a length using non-standard units.

The textbook gave the example of estimating how many tables would fit in the hallway, and I gave the example of how many cars could fit in a certain length of a street.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

so what was the question they were to aswer

Michael D said...

The question was (in different words):

Find a practical situation in which you would need to estimate a length using non-standard units. Sorry if this is too late.