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Building Hotels
Materials: Connecting cubesRecording sheet
Model of 3 x 4 building (one story) 1st
Directions:floor
1.Look at the model. This is a model of a one story hotel
builtwith cubes. Describe the array used to create this one
storyhotel.
2.Each cube represents one room in the hotel. How manyrooms are
in the hotel?
3.If you were to add another floor that fits exactly over
thisfloor, how many rooms will the hotel have? If the hotel had
5 floors, how many rooms?
4.Build a different hotel with any number of floors. Each
floorof a hotel must have the same number of rooms and eachfloor
must fit exactly over the floor below it. After 3 or 4
floors, complete a table for your hotel based on patterns
andmultiplication.
5.Complete a table for each of your hotels.Name Your Hotel Name
Your Hotel
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--------------------------------------Total Number
of Floors
Total Number
Of Rooms
1
2
3
4
5
10
20
Total Number
of Floors
Total Number
Of Rooms
2
3
5
8
9
10
12
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Mystery HotelsComplete the tables for the following mystery
hotels. Each floor
of a hotel must have the same number of rooms and each floor
must fit exactly over the floor below it.
Tracker Hotel
Daffy HotelTotal Number
of Floors
Total Number
Of Rooms
1
2
12
4
5
6
28
9
10
*
20
*
400
What strategies did you use to What strategies did you use
complete the table for the to complete the table for
the Daffy Hotel the Tracker Hotel?
Adapted from Investigations in Number, Data, and Space.
Total Number
of Floors
Total Number
Of Rooms
1
2
3
32
5
6
7
8
9
80
*
20
*
400
