The Legend of the Towers Problem

We continued with our work on the Towers of Powers problem by introducing the ancient legend that predicts when the end of the world will be. Before getting started on this problem, students were reminded of the limitations of their calculators. There is a point where each calculator is unable to display the entire, precise answer to a problem, and is forced to display the answer in scientific notation. In many cases, these answers will be rounded and not exact answers. Today's problem will test the capabilities of our calculators, so students will have to know when the calculator will no longer be useful in solving the problem.

Tonight's Homework: Complete both sides of the Tower Power worksheet that has the chart on the front side and the legend of the back. Beware! The legend problem will take you a bit of time to complete if you do it correctly. Good luck!