Mission to the Moon

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Mission to the Moon!
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You have an important job!Since you are NASAs
top mathematician, you are responsible for the
following things

• The parts NASA needs to order to finish their
  rocket ship.
• How many days the entire trip will take.
• Figuring out how much food and water the
  astronauts will need.

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Rocket PartsYou have gone to your engineers to
find out what they need to finish the rocket

• Julie says she needs 12 more bolts and 4 screws
  to finish the engine.
• Bruce tells you that he needs 5 more bolts and 8
  screws to finish putting the doors on.
• Dave tells you that he needs 7 bolts and 5 screws
  to finish installing the seats.

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Being an expert mathematician, you decide to make
a graph
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Now you can add the number of bolts youll need

• BOLTS
• 12
• 5
• 3
• 20

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You can also add the number of screws youll
need

• SCREWS
• 4
• 8
• 5
• 17

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Next you need to find out how many days the
Mission to the Moon will take!

• You do some math, and you figure out that it
  takes
• 1 day to orbit the earth
• 2 days to get to the moon
• 5 days for the astronauts to research the moon
• 1 day to get back to Earth

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How many days will the Mission to the Moon take?

• 1
• 2
• 5
• 1
• 9

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You talked to the NASA cook and she gave you some
information about food.

• Each astronaut eats about 4 pounds of space food
  a day

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How much food do you need?

• There are 5 astronauts
• They will be gone for 9 days

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You decide to solve this problem in more than one
step.

• Each astronaut eats 4 pounds of space food
  everyday.
• The Mission will take nine days
• 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 36
• Each astronaut will eat 36 pounds of food on the
  trip

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• If each Astronaut will eat 36 pounds of food and
  there are five astronauts, you need to do some
  more math!
• 36 36 36 36 36 180
• You need 180 pounds of food
• How else could you have solved that problem?