Fermi+Problems

//(Yana and Julian)// ** Math Skills: ** **//What’s the total time (in days) your entire class has spent chewing gum over a lifetime?//** //(Hailey and Michelle K)// ** Math Skills: ** **//How many party sized pizzas would it take to cover the outside of the homes on your street?//** //(Kathryn and Eddie)// **//How many meters does a student travel within the school per year?//** //(Brad and Kay)// ** Math Skills ** **//How many skateboards do you need to cover a skyscraper?//** //(Chris & Girthiga)// ** Math Skills ** **How many kilometers does the entire student population of your school walk in one year during school hours?** (Doina & Vick) ** Math Skills ** **How many trees need to be cut down to provide paper for an entire school year?** (Christe & Nathan) ** Math Skills ** **How many cell phones would you need to put end to end to make a ‘ring’ around the world? Are there enough cell phones in the world to accomplish this task?** //(Mala Singh and Lisa Kosh)// ** Math Skills ** **How many balloons would it take to fill a swimming pool?** //(Greg Leverton and Liz Wunderlich**)**// ** Math Skills **
 * How long do all Canadians spend playing video games in a month?**
 * Multiplication and division
 * Survey, social skills
 * Research skills
 * Estimation skills
 * Averaging, the concept of the average
 * Geography, knowledge of socio-economic state of Canada
 * Assumptions
 * Collecting and recording data
 * Taking mean value of data
 * Convert units of time
 * Math Skills: **
 * Equations for areas of squares, rectangles, and triangles (measurement)
 * Surface area (measurement)
 * Tiling patterns (geometry and special sense)
 * Exponents, multiplication, addition (number and sense and numeration)
 * Classify polygons (geometry and spatial sense)
 * Solving geometry problems (geometry and spatial sense)
 * Decimals, fractions, multiplication, collection and recording data
 * Solving geometry problems (grade 8)
 * Surface area of a rectangular prism (grade 7)
 * Surface area of a cylinder (grade 8)
 * Surface area of a triangular prism (grade 8)
 * Decimals (grade 7)
 * Measurement skills
 * Distance scales
 * Estimation
 * Averaging
 * Polling (data management)
 * Calculation and logic (Number sense and numeration, critical thinking)
 * Problem solving
 * Estimation
 * Organizational skills for multi-step questions
 * Basic Math skills (i.e. arithmetic, conversion, multiplication)
 * Number sense and numeration: Scientific notation, BEDMAS
 * Measurement: Circle and Circumference
 * Geometry and spatial sense: cell phone size in relation to the world
 * They need to know how to calculate volumes and areas
 * They need to understand shapes, and how spheres stack, and fill a volume.
 * They have to understand averages, particularly average volumes