A Day in the Life of Bob!

1. A Day in the Life of Bob!

2. It’s a fact that most students don’t like math. They don’t see the reason for learning math, this game is an example of how math is involved in everyday life. Particularly, in the life of Bob! Bob is a construction worker. He’s worked at his company for a number of years now and is in charge of a lot of things. Your job is to help Bob make the right choices using math to help you figure out what to do. So, have fun! But, be careful one wrong choice could spell disaster for Bob.

3. Bob wakes up at 5:10 am He needs to be at work at 6:00 am and it takes 20 minutes to get there. How much time does Bob have before he needs to leave? 1/2 hour 20 min. 50 min.

4. Bob arrives at work right on time! Continue

5. Bob left early for work. So, he decides to stop for a café latte. He only wants to use the $1.23 he has in change to buy the latte. Each cup is 61 cents. How many cups can he buy? 3 cups 2 cups

6. OH NO! Bob buys too much latte so he has too work in the kitchen to pay the bill. Continue

7. Bob is late for work! Bob’s boss is mad and he tells Bob he will be fined the appropriate amount! Company policy is that the amount of the fine is twice the amount that the worker would have made in the amount of time he/she was late. Bob was 20 minutes late and he gets paid $24.00 per hour. His boss tells him that he will be fined $16.00. Should Bob agree to this fine or complain? Agree Complain

8. Bob gets fired!!! Bob’s boss called him and told him that he just couldn’t have employees thinking they were more important than the company. So, Bob got sent home. Game Over.

9. Bob starts working, he needs to order iron bars for his next job. The building he’s constructing needs 1,350 iron beams per floor and it’s 96 stories tall. He has to make the order using scientific notation. What should the order be? 1,296 1.296x10^4 1.296x10^5

10. Wrong! Bob’s lucky his assistant looked over the order or he could have been in some serious trouble. The correct answer is found by: 1,350 x 96 = 129,600 which is 1.296x10^5 iron bars! Continue

11. Right! Now, Bob moves on to his next task. Continue

12. For the project that Bob is currently working on he needs to figure out how many iron beams it would take to make the edges of a cube with 1 iron beam as the length of each side. 12 16 64

13. Wrong! The people working for Bob realize his mistake and lose confidence in Bob as their boss. Continue

14. Right! It takes 4 beams for the bottom, sides, and top. That gives us 4+4+4=12! Continue

15. Bob’s assistant asks him how many more baseball games the Cubs have left this season. Bob knows they play 162 games and that their record is 41-73. Bob should tell his assistant. 32 games 48 games

16. Wrong! However, this decision doesn’t really affect Bob or his assistant and Bob never realizes his mistake. Continue

17. Accept Bob gets a call from his boss about a new project that will pay Bob’s company 4 million dollars. His Boss wants to know if they will profit more than 1 million dollars from it. The raw materials will cost $750,000. It will take 100,000 man hours at $17 per hour and another 15% of these original costs to cover additional costs. Should Bob tell his boss to accept or reject the offer? Reject

18. Wrong! Bob just cost his company over a million dollars in profit. Continue

19. Right! The project will make Bob’s company $1,182,500! Continue

20. Bob’s last task of the day is to figure out the area in square feet of the ground floor of the building he is working on right now. Click the button to see the diagram. 7,670 sq.ft. Diagram 10,295 sq. ft.

21. Wrong! Bob’s boss hears about his mistake and tells Bob he has one last chance to do his job well. Continue

22. Right! 35x37 + 85x75 = 7,670 or 120x37 + 85x38 = 7,670 Continue

23. Bob stops for gas on the way home. He buys $17.71 of gas and then he sees a Sports Illustrated on sale for $2.25 plus 6% sales tax. He has a twenty dollar bill. Can he afford the magazine? Yes No

24. Bob doesn’t realize his mistake until the clerk tells him his total. Bob is embarrassed and has to put the magazine back. Continue

25. Right! Bob figures out that $17.71 + $2.25 + ($2.25 x .06) = $20.10. Continue

26. Bob returns home and remembers that he promised his wife that they would figure out their finances and how they were planning on paying for their children’s education. Continue

27. Bob and his wife have figured out that they Will have about $32,000 total to spare over the next 5 years. Bob’s son will enter college this year and pay $5,250 per year for 4 years. Bob’s daughter will be attending college the following year and is planning on going to school for $11,000 per year for 4 years. How much money will Bob’s family have to get from loans to pay for the kids education? None $33,000 $49,250

28. Wrong! Bob’s family will be in for a rude awakening when they realize that they will need a lot more money to pay for college. Continue

29. Right! $5,250x4 + $11,000x4 -$32,000 = $33,000 Continue

30. Wrong! Bob’s family will take out more college loans than they need to and end up paying more than they have to in the end. Continue

31. Now, Bob is going to sleep so he can get up the next day ready for another day full of math. Game Over!