What Do You Notice? What Do You Wonder?



Context

Lucia invited five friends over to celebrate her birthday. She planned a variety of activities for the day, one of them being a scavenger hunt. Lucia and her friends headed to her neighbourhood park to complete the challenge. Equipped with a list of clues, all six friends headed off in different directions to follow the clues to each checkpoint. 

There were 12 different clues and corresponding locations along the scavenger hunt. Every time a participant found a location, there was a bucket full of candy. Participants could take a handful of candy from all 12 stops. 

At the end of the scavenger hunt, they returned to Lucia’s and emptied their bags of candy onto the floor. The friends quickly realized that they did not have an equal distribution of candy in their bags. 



Consolidation Prompt:

Lucia’s parents love candy just as much as the kids who attended the party.

Her parents each grabbed some handfuls of candy throughout the party.

Her Dad collected about one third the amount of the candy that Lucia collected, while her Mom collected about 5 times the amount of candy that her Dad collected.

Create a graphical or visual representation to compare the quantity of candy collected by Lucia and her parents. 

About how much more candy did Lucia’s Mom collect than Lucia? 


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