Sunday, May 05, 2013

Metric Conversion Problems (am)

Last week, the grade six students were working on solving problems involving the conversion of metric units. The toughest of these problems was the turkey problem.

A turkey weighs 9.75 kg. It takes about 20 minutes to cook 500 grams of this turkey. Approximately how many minutes does it take to cook the whole turkey?

We used the Explain Everything app to help us show our thinking... below is Marlee and Noah's solution.