I bought a very big bag of candy hearts and we began to wonder how many were in the bag? That led to a math challenge: If there are 12 candy hearts in a serving and there are 62 servings in a bag how many candy hearts are there in the bag? The class broke up into cooperative groups and tried to find a way to solve this problem. We have been talking a lot about how to use your strategies to find a solution. Ava A. made the connection with work she was doing in math stations.
Her group made ten frames and placed 12 hearts in each section. That made it easier to count.
We quickly discovered (skip counting by 2's and 10's) that each ten frame could hold 120 hearts.
It turns out that the bag had more than 700 hearts!
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