Meatballs
by Dan Meyer
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Act One
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How many meatballs will it take to overflow?
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What is a number of meatballs you know is too high?
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What is a number of meatballs you know is too low?
Act Two
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What information would be useful to know here?
- ImageThe height remaining in the pot
- ImageThe diameter of some sample meatballs
- ImageThe diameter of the pot
- ImageThe number of meatballs
- Teacher noteThis is where you ought to teach them how to find the volume of cylinders and spheres, if they don't already know.
Act Three
- VideoThe answer
- Teacher materialSample work
Sequel
- 5.
The chef adds 50 meatballs to a different pot and it overflows. Determine possible dimensions for that pot and its sauce level.
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The math worked out to 33 meatballs but the answer was 36. What might account for the difference?
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The chef wants to combine all 36 meatballs into one meatball. How big will that meatball be? Will it still overflow?
- Teacher noteThe difference might be on account of the "lip" of the cylindrical pot. The pot has more volume than we calculated because it isn't a true cylinder.
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My teenaged daughter's first question was, why are the meatballs in a bag?
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Will the sauce overflow once the meetball have been put in the saucepan?
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This is cute:) will there be a spill? Importantly, will I get to SEE a spill?
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How many meatballs will it take before the pot overflows? (and C'mon Dan, where are the yummy homemade meatballs???)
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Will the spaghetti sauce overflow the pan when the meatballs are added?
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