Property Brothers Help Grandma Replace her Flooring

Problem Posing

Sample Prompt:  

• • What do you wonder about?
  • From the list of wonders, how can we use math to make a decision? How can math serve our needs?            
  • What do you notice? What do you wonder?
  • What is interesting or important about this situation?
  • Who cares about this situation?
  • What other information do you need?  Are there important quantities?
    

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    What kind of flooring will they buy?

    How big are the two rooms?

    Will they put an underlayment or shoe molding around the perimeter?

Making Assumptions

Sample Prompt:  

Gathering Information

• • If I knew______, then I could figure out_______
  • Let’s assume__________.
  • What assumptions can we make around the problem to simplify the problem posed?
    

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• Here is some information to help the property boys with their math happening.

  

  

  

Doing the Mathematics

Sample Prompt:  

• What math do you know that can help you solve the problem?
• What are some common misconceptions that could arise at this stage, and how can they be addressed?

Building a model

Sample Prompt:  

• How might we use our solution to other similar problems?
• Can this solution help us with other problems?

Once I figure it out for these rooms, could I build a model that can help me know how many boxes I need for other rooms in grandma’s house?

Evaluating and revising the model

Sample Prompt:  

• How might we become even more precise with our model?
• How might our model change if we changed some of our previous assumptions?

Sharing & Connecting Real world Math to school math

Sample Prompt:  

• How does all the math we used in this problem relate to what we covering as math topics this year?
• Can you identify all the math and strategies we used to tackle this problem?