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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Crowded Ballroom

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore various methods of estimation. Framed in the context of a ballroom dance, students are to determine approximately how many people fit in the ballroom. A couple of different methods are presented, but students are encouraged to invent their own methods as well. In mathematics, such estimation problems are known as Fermi Problems.

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)