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Group C	Thoughts from Red Deer Lake & Dr. Gibson Students	Responses from Millarville Students
Go to Discussion A Go to Discussion B Go to Discussion D	How can we solve a math problem with another school when we do not see that school? How can we talk to them?	We will be using a list serv between the 3 schools so through email we can talk to each other and solve the problem together. We can ask each other to give ideas and then we can discuss them with our groups.
Return to Math Problem Return to Home Page	I do not have any idea about the size of 240 000 square metres. How do I go about figuring out how big that is? What does it look like? Is it bigger than a football field?	You might want to try to take an area such a football field that you can visualize and find the area of this and then work from there. You might want to change square metres into square km and then this would be a smaller number to work with.
	This question does not seem like math at all it seems like it is more like a story.	This is a math story where you have to understand "math" to solve the "math" that is inside the story.
	There is always a math question at the end of a math problem and this math problem does not have a question at the end and so we don't know how to solve it.	The whole story is the math question. Don't think of it as a math question but think of it as a land developer and you are submitting a plan using math. Read the question over and get a picture in your mind of what is happening in the question. Put down all that you know and then start making decisions.
	We have a lot of questions that we are considering: Do we want a certain number of lots? How natural do we want it to be? Do we just want one person to buy the land or does he want a lot of people to buy? We think that natural is not a lot of development but can you have natural with a lot of development? Do we want sidewalks beside the road? Would it be a good idea to build a campground because we think that lots don't always mean houses. What do you think that we should do with the trees?	You can have as many or as few as you want. Use your imagination and talk about what you think is "natural". As a developer you have to decide what you think the people would want. In the country there are not sidewalks but this is up to you to decide what you would like. We did not think of making a campground. That is an interesting idea. If we were planning for a natural land development we would just keep the farmer's land as natural as possible and that would mean leaving the forest.