A meter of candy
source: http://illuminations.nctm.org/
materials:
- Candy
- Meter-long strips of paper
- Meter sticks
- Crayons, markers, or colored pencils
- Posterboard
- Tape
- A Meter of Candy Overhead
- A Meter of Candy Activity Sheet
- Grids Activity Sheet
Directions:
- split students up into groups of 2 or 3 and have them line up their candies against a meter stick
- ask the students if they can easily tell what percentage/fraction of candy is a certain color
- ask students how they would be able to tell more easily
- then color by the meter stick so that they can see where the colors were when they lined up the candies and the meter stick
- next have them line the candies up on a hundred grid
- and color the hundreds grid so that they can compare it to the meter stick
- students should be talking about percentages as well as fractions during this activity
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