This is
an image of the apartment complex that i stay in when i am in East Lansing.
There are lots of kids who stay in this complex and they love to play by the
pond. As a future mother I have concerns for the safety of the children that
live here. I would like them to build a fence around the pond so that no one
gets to close to the water and have an accident. The management office would
like to know how long the pond is. A teacher can turn this into a measurement
question for students using non-standard tools. Students can count how many
foot steps in takes Mr. Brooks, who wears a size 12, to get from one end
of the pond to the next remembering the key components in measuring (no gaps or
overlaps). Seeing that Mr. Brooks wears a size 12 shoe students can convert 12
inches into 1 foot and determine the number of feet long the pond is.
