Real-World Problem Solving Math and Social Studies Measurement About the Cover How is this car like the cars you see today? How is it different? Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Place Columbus, OH 43240-4027 ISBN: 978-0-02-106204-1 MHID: 0-02-106204-8 Printed in the United States of America. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 109 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Real-World Problem Solving Listen as your teacher reads each problem. Then answer it. 1. Look at the horses on page 2 and the cars on page 3. Will it take you less time or more time to go by horse? Explain. 2. Look at the photo on page 3. Make a graph that shows the number of cars, buses, trains, and trucks you see. 3. Look at page 5. Did the steamship come before or after 1800? 4. Look at the timeline on page 7. Did the bicycle come before or after 1850? 5. Look at the timeline on page 8. Which object has the biggest wheels? the smallest? How could wheel size make traveling faster or slower? Explain. Measurement How did people travel years ago? How do you travel? The first cross-country car trip took place in 1903. It took over 2 months! 2 Things have changed a lot over the years. 3 A long time ago people sometimes traveled by steamship. Do you think this was fast or slow? 4 People also used trains to travel in the past. Do you think trains were faster than steamships? 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 5 Bicycles then did not look like they do today! 6 The first cars looked like this. Do you think this car was faster than the bicycles on page 6? 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 7 Would you like to fly in this plane? Do you think our ways to travel today are faster than years ago? 1800 8 182