Oreo+Project+Day+One

media type="custom" key="4429365" WOW! The students were extremely excited to learn that we would be participating in an online project that included schools around the United States. For the first day the students were presented with this question "How many cookies are in the bag?" The students went through a series of steps in order to determine the actual amount. First the students thought about their background knowledge and made a raw prediction without any resources other than their background knowledge. The students came up with things like: "I know that Oreos come in packs with rows of three and about 10 oreos in each row. So my prediction is 30." For the second step the students were provided with one pack of Oreos to look at without touching and make a second prediction. Third the students were allowed to touch the bag and make a new prediction. At this point I asked the students "How can we be certain of the actual amount in each pack?" The students all agreed to open the pack and count. We found that each pack contained 3 rows of 15 to equal 45 total cookies. media type="custom" key="4451509"