Tag Archives: modeling

Greenies

By Fawn | Published: February 2, 2015

Our black lab Mandy is 3.5 years old, weighs a ton, and her breath used to smell like death. Until we started giving her one Greenies a day. My husband orders them from Amazon, he also gets them for our neighbor’s small dog Bailey. Although both boxes weigh the same 36 ounces, Bailey gets 130 treats in the Teenie size and Mandy […]

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Hotel Snap

By Fawn | Published: December 11, 2013

[NCTM Illuminations has my blessings and thanks to re-write and feature this lesson on their site.] Andrew Stadel and I recently presented this task at the 2013 CMC‘s North and South Conferences. The Challenge As a team, build a hotel that yields the highest profit [score]. Rules and guidelines for building the hotel Each cube represents a […]

Posted in Algebra, Course 1 (6th Grade Math), Geometry, Problem Solving | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 14 Responses