Climbing the Burj Khalifa

This Instructional Activity is a part of the Lesson 1, Unit 3, Grade 6. The first activity of this lesson asked students how long a window-washing crew would be washing- i.e., time to complete an activity, which prompted students to calculate the amount of time per window instead of the number of windows per unit of time. Keeping in mind the context of the Burj Khalifa, this activity asks students to calculate how much of an activity would be finished-specifically, how much height would be scaled by a climber-in a given amount of time.