Tongue in Sendai

Spiky, Curly and Smiley ordered a set meal of gyutan (beef tongue) each.

Sendai is famous for its gyutan.

Each set meal cost ¥1680, including taxes. Is a ¥5000 bill enough to pay for their meal? 

Groceries in Bandar Seri Begawan

This bottle holds 875 ml of body wash. It cost $6.40. 

A smaller bottle of 450ml cost $4.30. In Brunei there is no taxes. Also one can use Singapore currency here. 

What's the original volume of the $6.40 bottle given that 20% of it is free?

Without the free 20% is the bigger bottle still better value for money than the smaller bottle?

Location | The Mall in Brunei

in Seoul

in Helsinki

Pop Art in Jakarta

Pop Art at Pullman Hotel

How many art pieces need to be commissioned to fill the rooms and hallway of the hotel? 

It has 43 rooms per floor and 12 floors of guest rooms. Each room has two art pieces with 18 more lining the corridor of each floor. | Jakarta

Penang

Peabody

Martha's Vineyard

Worcester

Brunei

Pecan Pie in Houston

I found this in my hotel in Houston which incidentally houses Singapore Airlines crew when they are in between flights to and from Moscow.

5 cups each of pecan, corn syrup, sugar and butter are available. Using this recipe, how many pecan pie can be made and what ingredients are left over and by how much?

Tangrams in Kansas City

I found these on the walls of Westin Crown Center. I wonder if there are others on other floors?

What other shapes can you make using these two squares and four triangles given that each shape has at least one line of symmetry?

Phoenix

Scottsdale

Yummy in Las Vegas

$9.95 for a box of 4

$18.95 for a box of 7

$29.95 for a box of 12

$36.95 for a box of 16

Comment on the way this shop at The Venetian price it's macaroons.

Location | The Venetian

Lift or Escalator in London

Explain why it may still be faster taking the escalator?

Sunrise in Jacksonville

Noodles in Minneapolis

I had a bowl of beef udon ($9.29) and a soda ($1.99) at the airport. I paid 12.10 for them inclusive of taxes. What is the tax rate in this city?

Airport Lounge in Manila

BTS in Bangkok

The BTS is god-sent and probably made Bangkok more tourist-friendly than say Jakarta or Manila that do not have a mass transit system.

If you stay in a hotel near a station, just hop onto a BTS and travel to Phaya Thai Station to catch the Airport Link. 

That way your travel time to the airport is not subjected to traffic conditions and taxis that fly at break-neck speed. I got to the airport 45 minutes and for less than B100.

Five friends, after a movie, went their separate ways. Each of them paid a different fare and, together, their fare is an even number of baht. Explain if this is possible.

Number sense can be developed and assessed using anchor tasks / items like this one. 

Location | National Station BTS Station in Bangkok