Sunday, March 18, 2012

Tasks

You are playing the role of the history scholars who have discovered the directions to Sir Cadillac's treasure.  In this role you will be providing the archeologists (the Math Students) with:

  • A map of Sir Cadillac's path on a map of a current map of the city; that you create.
  • Provide document with the directions of each stage of Sir Cadillac's path, of which the archeologists need will use to find the treasure.
  • Communicate with the archeologists to answer their questions and give them feedback on whether they are following the right path and traveling the right distance.
  • Be mentors to the archeologists in their learning of the Pythagorean Theorem which they will need to know in order to find the treasure based on your directions.
  • Check that the map that the archeologists create based on your directions correctly matches your map of Sir Cadillac's path to his treasure.