North Brookfield Elementary School
| Names: | Jeff Leas, Erica Turner and Aaron Karp |
| Grades: | Grade 5 students, gifted/advanced learner program |
| Description: | We picked North Brookfield High School for our project because we figured it would be easy to think of math problems related to the new building project. |
| Concepts: | Whole number operations, percent, measurement |
| Grade level | 4-6th |
| Curriculum Framework Learning Standards | 1) Interpret the multiple uses of numbers by taking real-world situations
and translating them into numerical statements. 2) Know when to use the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; and describe their relationships. 3) Apply estimation to check solutions to determine if the results of computational problems make sense. 4) Use patterns and relationships to analyze mathematical situations. |
We are doing a math problem on our new high school in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. We are doing this because we are building a new high school in our town. It will be a place where everyday kids from North Brookfield go to school. It is going to look a lot different. This is what it is going to look like:
The construction will begin around spring 2001, and it will end sometime in 2003. They reached the conclusion that there was going to be a new high school in August 1999. The new high school will consist of 63 rooms. Some of the rooms in the new high school will be Tech Ed. Tech Ed is a giant computer lab. Another one of the rooms is the Guidance room. That is where the Guidance Councilor helps students deal with their problems. Next is the health room. That is where the students go to learn about health and the human body. Another room is the media room. This is where the students watch a movie or use different types of cameras. There is an Art room. There, students show their artistic abilities. There is a special education room where kids with learning disabilities come to a learning environment specially designed for them. Those are just some of the many new rooms in the new high school.
There will also be a new baseball field. It will be off the left wing of the high school.
The new high school is twice the size of the existing high school. The town is paying around 3 million dollars for this new high school. That is a lot of money to a small community like North Brookfield. The state will pay for the other 11 millions dollars it will cost to build the school.
MATH PROBLEMS:
1. The old high school had 378 lockers, and then the new high school is supposed to have 586 lockers. If there were 7 books in each locker in the new school and there were 6 books in each locker in the old school, how many more books are in the new school than the old school?
2. The new high school will be a farther distance away from the elementary school than the old high school. The old high school was 72 feet away. The new high school will be 96 feet away. What is the distance in inches from the old high school to the elementary school? What is the distance in inches from the new high school to the elementary school?
3. If there are 69 rooms in the new high school and there are two windows in 24 of the rooms and there are 4 windows in the rest of the rooms, how many windows are there in the whole school?
4. If the town is paying 3 million for the new school, and the state is paying the remaining 11 million for the school, what percentage do the taxpayers pay of the total cost?
ANSWERS
1. 870
2. 864 inches and 1,152 inches
3. 228 windows
4. 21%