Saturday, 14 August 2010

Pizza fraction challenge

Our learning teams are all working on fractions at the moment and I found this cool question for you to answer.


The Adventures of Mrs. Meatball.



Mrs. Meatball orders pizza cut into 8 slices. Her daughter eats 1/4 ofthe pizza. Her son eats 1/2 of the pizza and she eats one slice.


1. Is there any pizza left?


2. What fraction of the pizza did the family eat?


I got this questions straight from the blog of Sensational Seven but beware - they are only seven and eight years old.  I hope we can answer their maths problem! 

Go and check out their answers and make sure you post your answer on our blog as a comment.  Don't forget to explain how you solved the problem and add your first name. 

Always keep safe by not posting any other personal details on the blog.

3 comments:

  1. Hi That Pizza looks nice. And your Blog is Outstanding. I like your Blog Very much.

    Visit our Class Blog at Melvilleroom8.blogspot.com
    Bye

    Chase

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  2. Hey Chase - did you figure out the answer to the pizza question or have those 7 & 8 year old kids beaten us?

    Our whole class love it when we get comments from other kids - so thanks. We love to visit your blog but we need to leave some more comments. That can be our challenge for this week.

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  3. There is still one peice of pizza left. The family ate 7/8 of the pizza. I worked this out by drawing a circle and dividing it into eight peices. Then I coloured a quater (2 peices) for her daughter and half (4 peices) for her son. Then I coloured in one more peice leaving me with one peice.
    From Haidee the E-Team

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