Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 6, Issue 2, Article 6 (Dec., 2005) Muammer CALIK and Alipasa AYAS An analogy activity for incorporating students' conceptions of types of solutions Previous Contents Next

Analogy

Please read the following case carefully and then fill into the given schema

1. Think of a bus, whose full capacity is 40, with 25 men who sit down homogenously (bus stop 1)
2. Four women (bus stop 2), five women (bus stop 3) and six women (bus stop 4) get on the bus at each of the subsequent bus stops respectively and sit down homogenously amongst men
3. After reaching full capacity, the driver notices five women who are hitchhiking but there is no seat. She/he is not keen on leaving them under intensive sunshine and picks them up. Finally, the women get on the bus (bus stop 5) and sit down seats homogenously amongst men as in case of the other bus stops.
4. Then, the women who get on the bus stop 5, get off at the subsequent one.
5. Taking into account the given story, please fill in the subsequent schema by counting the percentages of women per man.

The numbers of passengers

Bus Stop 1

%

Bus Stop 2

%

Bus Stop 3

%

Bus Stop 4

%

Bus Stop 5

%

Bus Stop 6

%

Men

Women

 

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