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Multiple Towers and Filmmaking

Use multiple towers to help you find the answers.

  • 1 This is a single frame of movie film. In the early years of motion pictures, filmmakers used 16 frames per second to film a silent movie.

    How many frames of film are there in 12 seconds of a silent movie? Explain how you found the answer.

  • 2 In today's motion pictures, filmmakers use 24 frames per second.

    How many frames of film are there in 12 seconds of a modern movie? In 25 seconds? In 1 minute?

    At 24 frames per second, how many seconds would it take to show 504 frames?

NOTE

Students solve real-world problems involving the math content of this unit.

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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons