POW #2
How many egg-actly?
Dave has a nightmare. He dreams he is a farmer and taking eggs to market in his cart. Along the way he hits a pothole, which jars his cart and spills the eggs. Though Dave is unhurt (that wasn’t the scary part of the nightmare), every egg is broken (that’s the nightmare!). So he goes to his insurance agent who asks him how many eggs he had. He doesn’t know but he does remember some things from the various ways he packed the eggs (because he’s a math teacher and can’t help but pay attention to details). He knows that when he puts the eggs in groups of two, there is one left over. When he puts them in groups of three, there was one left over. The same thing happened when he put them in groups of four, groups of five, or groups of six. But when he put them in groups of seven, he ended up with complete groups of seven, with no eggs left over.
We had to find multiples of 2,3,4,5,6, and 7 until we found a number that worked for all of them with 1 egg left over for 2,3,4,5, and 6.
The solution the for problem was that Dave had 301 eggs.
For this POW, I would give myself a 6 because I showed how I got to my solution but I didn’t explain the process in words very well.
We had to find multiples of 2,3,4,5,6, and 7 until we found a number that worked for all of them with 1 egg left over for 2,3,4,5, and 6.
The solution the for problem was that Dave had 301 eggs.
For this POW, I would give myself a 6 because I showed how I got to my solution but I didn’t explain the process in words very well.
Pow #3
DAve bakes a pie
Problem Statement:
Dave was baking a pie one day. When he took them out of the oven, he thought about how he could cut it. Since he was feeling rebellious, he didn’t want to cut through the center of the pie. Because he only had one pie, he needed to think about how he was going to cut it.
Process:
We had to figure out the maximum amount of pieces for each cut. For example, if you were to cut the pie once, you’d get two pieces or if you were to cut it twice, you’d get 4. So we had to figure out how many pieces of pie we could get for 4,5,6,7,8 cuts.
Dave was baking a pie one day. When he took them out of the oven, he thought about how he could cut it. Since he was feeling rebellious, he didn’t want to cut through the center of the pie. Because he only had one pie, he needed to think about how he was going to cut it.
Process:
We had to figure out the maximum amount of pieces for each cut. For example, if you were to cut the pie once, you’d get two pieces or if you were to cut it twice, you’d get 4. So we had to figure out how many pieces of pie we could get for 4,5,6,7,8 cuts.