Preparing+for+Your+Dream+Vacation

=Preparing for Your Dream Vacation= Remember, that this is a math project, so ...

__**Task 1: Applying Mathematics**__ First, brainstorm a list of all the ways that mathematics would play a role in planning a vacation. After you’ve listed your first few ideas, s-t-r-e-c-h your brain! There are many, many answers you might include here. How many can you come up with?

__**Task 2: Practicing Math Skills**__ For this project, you will use fractions to analyze and compare the amount of your vacation that will be spent on various activities. Let’s try an example: Julie went on a three-day vacation to New York City to visit her friend Jane. On the following page, you will find a schedule that describes all of Julie’s activities during her three days in New York.

Use this schedule [|A Vacation in the Big Apple] to answer the questions below.

❏ Study the first row of the chart, which includes Friday’s schedule. Notice in the last column that the total amount of time spent on certain categories of activities has been calculated.

❏ Complete the third column of the chart by calculating the total amount of time spent on each category for Saturday and Sunday. Express your answer in whole or half hours.

❏ Use the vacation schedule to answer the following questions:


 * How long was the entire vacation – from start to finish – in hours?


 * Find the total number of hours spent on each category of activity for the entire weekend. There are 8 categories in all.


 * If you take the number of hours spent eating, over the total number of hours in the entire vacation, and then simplify the fraction, you find that of the entire vacation was spent eating. What fraction of the entire vacation was spent sleeping?


 * Find the fraction of the total trip spent on each of the remaining categories! IMPORTANT HINT: In order to find fractions for a time in half hours, convert times from hours to minutes. Write the fraction as number of minutes spent on a certain category out of the total number of minutes for the entire trip. Then reduce the fraction.

That's it! You're ready to take the challenge and plan your own vacation. Click the [|Your Challenge] Link