Revisiting the Bean Counting, Fog, and Snow problem

Abstract

The problem scenario explores analog clocks, a rich source of tasks associated with angles and angle measures. To access the full-size activity sheet, go to http://www.nctm.org/tcm, All Issues. Each month, this section of the Problem Solvers department showcases students' in-depth thinking and discusses the classroom results of using problems presented in previous issues of Teaching Children Mathematics.