Lost In The Mish - Mosh - Area Measure

Series: Exploring Mathematics Series

Duration: 13

Genre: Educational

Creator: davidson

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Tells how a famous detective selects the appropriate unit of measure in order to save a kidnapped professor., Uses an animated Sherlock Holmes parody to introduce the grid system of area measure. Explains how famed detective Finite Sums rescues a famous archaeologist held captive in the Mish-Mosh, an underground British ruin. Shows how the detective finds the way out by relating the areas of the rooms to the professor's clues about his location. Concludes open-endedly with an unsolved problem.

Complete Record: Tells how a famous detective selects the appropriate unit of measure in order to save a kidnapped professor., Uses an animated Sherlock Holmes parody to introduce the grid system of area measure. Explains how famed detective Finite Sums rescues a famous archaeologist held captive in the Mish-Mosh, an underground British ruin. Shows how the detective finds the way out by relating the areas of the rooms to the professor's clues about his location. Concludes open-endedly with an unsolved problem.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.