Lesson
Lesson
| Title | Chopsticks
and the Future of China's Forests: Using Mathematics to Look at the
Future |
| Lesson Description | Students
estimate the number of disposable chopsticks that can be obtained from
one cubic meter of wood, and from that information determine the cubic
meters of wood that China would use in a year under varying consumption
rates. |
| Author | Michael
Baron |
| Grade Level | 6-7-8 |
| Duration | 1 class period |
| National Geography Standards | National Math Standards |
| Element Five: 14 | Number Sense and Operations |
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