Are you as smart as a 4th grader?
Below is a link to a sample test question from next year’s new Core Curriculum for 4th grade math. Can you get the correct answer?
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The beauty of the question is that there are many ways of answering it. I believe children will use math manipulatives to realize that the smallest unit is 1/6, that is shape G & H. There are 2 1/6 pieces in the rhobmus, 3- pieces in the trapezoid and 6 pieces in the hexagon All together the land is comprised of 24 pieces. 24 divided into 1200 is $50
Well if A & B are worth 1/4 or $300 each.
C & D 1/12 or $100 each
E & F 1/8 or $150 each
G & H 1/24 or $50 each
He could increase the value of Field A by building a baseball diamond and invite James Earl Jones:
“Ray, people will come Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won’t mind if you look around, you’ll say. It’s only $20 per person. They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they’ll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. “