Central Park

Act 1

1. What percent of Manhattan is Central Park?
2. Write down a guess.

Act 2

3. What information would be useful to figure this out?
4. Write down some questions you have in your head right now.

Act 3

Sequel

5. How many people could fit, shoulder-to-shoulder, in the park?
6. How many hot dog stands could fit in the park? (Give each stand its own 50 foot radius to avoid stand-to-stand feuding)

Common Core Standards

6.RP.A.3.C
Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

HSG.C.B
Understand and apply theorems about circles

TEKS

7.4D
Solve problems involving ratios, rates, and percents, including multi-step problems involving percent increase and percent decrease, and financial literacy problems

7.9B
Determine the circumference and area of circles
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