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Life-Size Jenga


Act 1

1. How many boards will he need?
2. Write down a guess.

act 2

3. What information would be useful to figure this out?
4. Write down some questions you have in your head right now.
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act 3


Sequel

5. What would happen if each block was 1 foot long?
6. What would happen if each board was 6 feet long?


Common Core Standards

6.NS.A.1
Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.

6.NS.B.2
Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.

7.NS.A.3
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

TEKS

6.3(D)
add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers fluently

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