Lesson 12 Lots and Lots of Garbage

    • Let’s investigate what happens to garbage.

Warm-up Notice and Wonder: Garbage Truck

What do you notice? What do you wonder?

garbage truck.

Activity 1 60 Containers

Shipping container in the shape of a Rectangular prism. 

  1. Find at least 5 different ways to arrange 60 containers. Represent each arrangement with an expression.

  2. Create a visual display to show which is the best arrangement for shipping the 3,300 tons of garbage.

Activity 2 How Many Containers on the Ship?

  1. How many containers are on the cargo ship?

    Cargo ship partially full.

    Record an estimate that is:

    too low

    about right

    too high

  2. How many containers are on the cargo ship?

    Full cargo ship.

    Record an estimate that is:

    too low

    about right

    too high

  3. What assumptions were you making when you came up with your estimates?