Suppose you have two tickets to a fabulous concert and are planning a special dinner for two prior to the concert. Your menu consists of a very special soup and a baked chicken entre. The soup must be boiled for 35 minutes and you should allow 15 minutes to serve and consume it. The chicken dish requires a fair amount of preparation: you have to boil the rice for 30 minutes, brown the chicken in the frying pan for 15 minutes, and bake the rice and chicken in a baking dish in the oven for 15 minutes. It takes 5 minutes to prepare a sauce in the frying pan and 15 minutes to boil the peas. (You have only two pots and one frying pan.) For the good red wine youve bought, you must allow 5 minutes to uncork it (very carefully) and let it stand for 30 minutes before serving it. You plan to allow 25 minutes to serve and eat the entre and drink the wine.

How much time do you need to prepare and consume the meal? What representation (model) did your group use to determine the time? How did you keep track of which activities had to follow others and which could be going on at the same time?