Car Name:                                                  

Gas Tank Size:                                           

Miles per gallon of gas:                                

Web site:  http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm

Choose a city at least 500 miles away from Haverford.

City:                                                  

Total miles away:                               

Web site: http://www.mapquest.com/directions/

Long Division Problem (Students must use paper and pencil first!)

How many gallons of gas will you use?

Take the TOTAL MILES and DIVIDE BY your HIGHWAY MILEAGE PER GALLON.

                    /                  =                                  

(Miles)           (MPG)           (Gallons of gas used)

MULTIPLICAITON PROBLEM WITH DECIMALS: (Pencil & paper)
How much money will you have to spend on gas to get to your destination?

Price of gas = $2.25 per gallon  TIMES the gallons of gas used.

$2.25  X                 = $            

              (Gallons)       (Total $)

SHORT DIVISION PROBLEM: (Pencil & paper – and round answer up)
How many times will you have to fill up your tank? 

Total gallons used DIVIDED by GAS TANK SIZE

                    /                  =                                  

(Gallons)       (Tank size)     (Number of fill-ups)

A. Point of Interest
Florida Aquarium
The coral reefs gallery
with plants and animals native to Florida including live alligators!

Internet link:
Florida Aquirium: Downtown Tampa
http://www.tampagov.net/about_Tampa/attractions/Florida_Aquarium/index.asp
 

B. Famous Person
Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon first arrived in Tampa in 1513,
but the Spanish decided to settle in eastern Florida and left the western Gulf Coast area. It wasn't until 1824, two months after the arrival of the first Americans,
that the US Army established Fort Brooke to protect the harbor at Tampa Bay.

Internet link:
Tampa History
http://www.tampagov.net/documents/Tampa_history.asp