Candy Bowl Revisited

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CCSS: 2.NBT.6, 2.NBT.7, 2.NBT.9

Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards: 2.NR.2, 3.PAR.2

Act 1

Watch the video:

The Candy Bowl Revisited – Act 1 from Mike Wiernicki 

Ask students:

  • What do you notice?  Record student responses.
  • What do you wonder?  Record student curiosities and wonders.

Focus question(s):

  • How many Snickers candies were in the bowl to start (How many did the teachers eat)?
  • How many Twix candies are in the bowl now?

Ask students to:

  • Write down an estimate that is too high.
  • Write down an estimate that is too low.
  • Write down a best guess estimate.
  • Mark each estimate on an empty number line.

Act 2

Ask students what information/tools they need to answer their question.  Give them their information as they ask for it.

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Act 3

  • Share your solution and strategies.  Compare your strategies and results.
  • How reasonable was your estimate?
  • What might you do differently next time?
  • What did you do well during this task?

The Candy Bowl Revisited – Act 3 Milky Way & Twix from Mike Wiernicki 

<a href=”http://&#8221; data-wplink-url-error=”true”>The Candy Bowl Revisited – Act 3 Snickers Count from Mike Wiernicki