The Situation
The Challenge(s)
- How much white tarp and black tarp would you need to replicate this prank?
- If you wanted to make a new message on the Hollywood sign, what would it be and how much white tarp and black tarp would you need?
Question(s) To Ask
These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path:
- What is a guess for the amount of white/black tarp that is too low?
- What is a guess for the amount of white/black tarp that is too high?
- What information would be useful in figuring this out?
- What factors may affect your answer’s accuracy?
Consider This
The Hollywood Sign is 45 feet tall, so I designed the grid paper so that each letter would be as close to 9 units in length as possible. That gives the grid a scale where each box is 5 feet long and would contain 25 square feet of material.
What You’ll Need
- Dimensions of the Hollywood Sign
- Hollywood Sign and “GO UCLA” sign on grid paper
Content Standard(s)
- CCSS 3.MD.5 – Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
- CCSS 3.MD.6 – Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
- CCSS 3.MD.7 – Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
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