Real-Life Math fun activity! Volume of Prisms- Did I get cheated with Ice Cream?
This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will use their knowledge of the volume of a prism to do an investigation into fair marketing and sales practices. Lots of containers of consumer products have a "false bottom". Do the retailers cheat us with this or do we get the amount we pay for? Other math topics needed to do this resource successfully include area of circles, ratios and percents.
Nothing compares with ice-cream, and that is why your child will remember this activity for a long time! Did they get cheated with the amount of ice-cream? No better Real-Life Math application than this.
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- distance learning
- as a problem for a math station
- with math centers
- for homework
- constructive group work centered on problem-solving.
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