Super Mario – Super Pear Deck

One of my favourite 3 act math tasks is Super Mario from Nora Oswald. I’ll be teaching it a few times this semester and here is our plan….

Act 1: Show the video…

Instead of showing right to the end we are going to pause it right here….

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3 Act Math – Ground Cover

With inspiration from Dan Meyer through Kyle Pearce, I created a Three-Act Problem. My grade 11 class just finished finding side lengths and angles in right triangles using the primary trigonometric ratios, and we’re moving on to solving problems! In the spirit of solving problems…..here is a Three Act Problem.

Ground Cover

Act 1: Video

Act 2: Pictures

Sod Dimensions

Garden Measurments

Act 3: Video