Resumen de Solutions: Decoding dimensions of the Dakota

Sherri Farmer, Signe E. Kastberg, Erin R. Moss (ed. lit.)

• This part of the department showcases students' in-depth thinking and work on problems previously published in Teaching Children Mathematics. The September 2013 problem scenario highlights a sightseeing trip to New York City and the resulting mathematical wonderings about the historic Dakota apartment building. An Indiana teacher reports on how her fourth graders engaged with this investigation of differences and relationships between perimeter and area.