A Garden of Fermi Problems at Hampton University
http://www.jlab.org/~cecire/garden/fermiprob.html

Alex Dzierba, Stuart Briber, Ken McFarlane, Gene Oldfield, Ken Cecire


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An introduction to Fermi questions with a list of examples. This site also provides a worked out solution to the Chinese tea question and links to other sites.

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Subject: Mathematics
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Special Interest: Quantitative
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Estimation, Problem Solving