Life-Size Jenga

Act 1

1. How many boards will he need?

2. 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.

Act 3

Sequel

5. What would happen if each block was 1 foot long?

6. What would happen if each board was 6 feet long?

Standards

Common Core

• 6.NS.A.1 - Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.

• 6.NS.B.2 - Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.

• 7.NS.A.3 - Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

TEKS

• 6.3(D) - add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers fluently