Today we read the book Math Curse. The book covers many ways we deal with numbers in everyday life and how almost everything can be a math problem. You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants -- can you make 1 good outfit?
Some of the questions asked in the book are as simple as "How many quarts are in a gallon?" to the not so simple "If an M&M is about one centimeter long and the Mississippi River is about 4,000 kilometers long, how many M&Ms would it take to measure the length of this river?"
After reading the book, we went back through to try to answer all of the realistic and also the wacky questions.
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