October 2007, Vol. 13, Issue 3
Fermi Questions
Germaine Taggart; Paul Adams; Ervin Eltze; John Heinrichs; James Hohman; Karen Hickman
The use of Fermi questions as a problem-solving tool. A list of key questions are developed where estimations, approximations and number sense are used to give a reasonable answer to the problem. Included is a sample Fermi question to investigate.
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