The Story:
I was at the grocery store and I saw bags of apples that looked so juicy and delicious. Each bag had 10 apples in it, but a bag was full of either 10 green apples, or 10 red apples - I wanted some of each. I asked the man if there were any bags that had a mixture of apples, and he laughed. He said "that would take way too much work for me to sort them out, do you know how many assortments there could be!!"
Math Question:
How many ways are there to to make packages of 10 apples that have some red and some green apples?
Have you students guess how many assortments there could be for this problem
Answer:
Have you students use math manipulatives to solve this problem, showing the different assortments that are possible.
The pictures below are the different ways that students can show the different assortments.
I was at the grocery store and I saw bags of apples that looked so juicy and delicious. Each bag had 10 apples in it, but a bag was full of either 10 green apples, or 10 red apples - I wanted some of each. I asked the man if there were any bags that had a mixture of apples, and he laughed. He said "that would take way too much work for me to sort them out, do you know how many assortments there could be!!"
Math Question:
How many ways are there to to make packages of 10 apples that have some red and some green apples?
Have you students guess how many assortments there could be for this problem
Answer:
Have you students use math manipulatives to solve this problem, showing the different assortments that are possible.
The pictures below are the different ways that students can show the different assortments.