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Highlights: A group activity for students to help them understand what doing a serious estimation looks like.
Abstract: In this activity, students work with whiteboards in groups of 3-4 to estimate the surface area of a towel. The answer to this depends on your model of the towel, and that model depends on what you care about - storing the towel or how effect it is going to be in drying something. This problem is tied to a follow-on homework problem, "Microvilli", of biological relevance.
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