So I am planning a lesson for my introduction to solving equations.  I am not totally sure how it will work, but I am going to attempt a small bit of WCYDWT.  My steps to this lesson consisted as this:
  1. I need to make a lesson for Monday.
  2. I am bored of giving the same old thing.
  3. I want to make a "Hook" question that will get kids engaged.
  4. How can I turn one of these text book problems into something engaging.

And that is what I did.  I found some interesting word problems, ones that as Dan says, take out all of the guess work, and I made it my own.  I added some humour into it, and voilà this is what I cam up with.

I will lead you into this, much the same as Dan does, by first giving you the prompt (or the question).

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What is the question here?  This is what I will ask my students.  What question is knocking on your door that you must answer?