- We need to buy more wood.
- You need to cut down a tree and make it into another piece like this.
Then we talked about cutting the pieces we had to make 4 pieces.
- We can't use scissors, they're too small.
- We would need really big scissors.
- Scissors aren't sharp enough.
Eventually they concluded we'd need a saw and that we'd need to cut the wood in half. We measured the wood and learned that it was 8 feet long. When asked how we could figure out what would be half of 8, one student replied
- Well, 4+4 is 8.
That's how we decided to measure 4 feet. We double checked our measurements, sawed the wood, and then got to work sanding it!