Where do you keep your socks? Go to the drawer and carefully remove them and anything else that is in there. (Be neat! You will have to put them back neatly!) Now go get a ruler and measure your drawer. You need to measure the length, width, and height of the drawer in inches. Now you will need to do some estimating to answer as many of the following questions as you like. You can answer one each time you reply or do several all at one time.

 

·   What is the volume of your drawer?

·   Get your favorite book that you have in your house. Put it in your drawer. About how many books that size could fit into your drawer? Tell us how you figured that out. (Make sure to tell us the name of your favorite book!)

·   About how many pairs of socks can you fit in your drawer? Tell us how you figured that out?

·   Find a quarter somewhere.  Put it in your drawer. If your drawer was absolutely filled completely with quarters only, about how much money would there be in the drawer? Tell us how you figured that out.

·   Put your calculator in the drawer. About how many calculators like yours could fit in the drawer? (You might need a calculator to figure that one out. You might need a calculator to figure any of these out!) Tell us how you figured that out.

Now carefully and neatly replace your socks so nobody comes to yell at you for messing up your room!