Act 1
What percent of Manhattan is Central Park?
Write down a guess.
Act 2
3. What information would be useful to figure this out?
4. Write down some questions you have in your head right now.
Use this Google Maps Engine. See video below for guidance.
Act 3
Sequel
How many people could fit, shoulder-to-shoulder, in the park?
How many hot dog stands could fit in the park? (Give each stand its own 50 foot radius to avoid stand-to-stand feuding)
Standards
Common Core
6.RP.A.3.C - Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
HSG.C.B - Understand and apply theorems about circles
TEKS
7.4D - Solve problems involving ratios, rates, and percents, including multi-step problems involving percent increase and percent decrease, and financial literacy problems
7.9B - Determine the circumference and area of circles
Credits
Daily Overview / Satellite imagery courtesy of Digital Globe / Benjamin Grant