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Wood Volume in a Forest

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Timber!!!

Using a sample of tree heights and diameters, this lesson gets students to see how foresters use problem solving to get an accurate estimate of the total volume of wood in a forest.
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http://www.thefutureschannel.com/hands-on_math/timber_cruise.php

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