Cheerios Investigation?!

Today we had a great time in Math.  We worked on solving a problem for the ficticious "Mrs. Oats", who need to find out if adding toys to her cereal, Cheerios, would potentially increase sales.  We discussed various factors involved, and ultimately did a simulation to see how many boxes the average person would need to buy in order to get 6 different toys in the cereal boxes if they were equally available. 

First, Mrs. Steinhoff led the class through the first simulation.  By rolling the dice, we are able to simulate a person buying each box of cereal.  This first time, it took 14 rolls of the dice, or boxes, before we were able to get all 6 toys.  Then in pairs, we did 3 more simulations. 

As you' will see from our chart, the range was from 7 - 42 boxes of cereal! The mean was 14, the median was 13 and the mode was 13. Soon we will be working on letters to "Mrs. Oats", explaining our findings in an informative letter.

We really enjoyed the lesson are looking forward to creating our own experiments!



Mrs. Steinhoff's Simulation

Working in Pairs



Tallying the Totals



Rolling the dice

Mean, Median and Mode - Explaining their meanings





Our Line Plot

- Mrs. Steinhoff