Problem+of+the+week

New World Supermarket
The Warehouse Disco: (Henry G, Anton, Sophie, Oscar, Ella, Taine, Henry, Dan, Josh)
 * Ask your parents how much you could charge children for attending the disco?
 * Find out the prices for the different food items you would have at the disco
 * Would you run a Junior and Senior school disco?

Cupcakes: (Caitlin, Nicole B, Catie, Harriet B, Caitlin, Ruby) Car Wash: (Hamish, Zahn, Zoe, Harry, Jake, Matt, Georgia, Ciaran, Rohan)
 * Find a recipe
 * Price the ingredients for your recipe
 * How are you going to bake and sell them?
 * What products would you need?
 * What are the prices of the products you need?
 * What do other people charge to wash cars?
 * Is it a good idea to do the inside of cars? Or just the outside?

Units of measurement - for converting recipes: Granulated sugar: 1 cup = 200 grams Brown sugar: 1 cup, packed = 220 grams Sifted white flour: 1 cup = 125 grams White rice, uncooked: 1 cup = 185 grams White rice, cooked: 1 cup = 175 grams Butter: 1 cup = 227 grams Almonds, slivered: 1 cup = 108 grams Oil: 1 cup = 224 grams Maple syrup: 1 cup = 322 grams Milk, non-fat: 1 cup = 245 grams Milk, sweetened condensed: 306 grams Broccoli, flowerets: 1 cup = 71 grams Raisins: 1 cup, packed = 165 grams Milk, dry: 1 cup = 68 grams Yogurt: 1 cup = 245 grams Water: 1 cup = 236 grams Confectioners sugar: 1 C = 110 g Cocoa: 1 C = 125 g **__Week 1 - Term 3__**

We baked Chocolate Chip Cookies and will be doing some maths thinking around these yummy treats. Check out the recipe below

Which of the cookies would you pay for?  

 This was the biscuit with the best crunch and taste - voted by the group.

We agreed that we might only be able to sell approximately 40% of them, when we were doing our quality control. **__ Copy one of the pictures above to your page and say why this is? Why did we need to do a quality check if we want to sell them. __**

Each week there will be a new problem placed on the wiki for you to solve.

All children involved have their own page to show their thinking on how they have solved the problem.

You must: - record your thinking - all of your problem solving - solve the problem (sometimes there may be more than one possible answer)

**__If you are unsure about any new knowledge - go to Mathletics and use the dictionary or lessons to help you!__**

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">**__Week 7 - Term 2 Problem__** <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Click on the link to read the problem.



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Kim wants to buy exactly $3.00 worth of beads to make a necklace for her mum. There are three sorts of bead, each with different price. Kim wants: - the necklace to begin and end with a pink bead - a repeating pattern - more purple beads than pink or green beads Is it possible to design such a necklace? 25c bead - Squre blue 10c bead - oval purple 5c bead - circle pink


 * __Week three Term 2__**

Fuel Savings NASA has been trying to reduce the fuel consumption of its large rockets. Two companies, MOREGAS and JeTSAVE have come up with separate devices to save fuel. The MOREGAS invention will save 30% of fuel and JeTSAVEs attachment will save 40%. One of the brains at NASA decides to couple the two devices. How <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">much fuel can they save together?

Tennis & Golf
 * __Week One Term 2__**

In a class in the school down the road, everyone plays tennis or golf or both. In fact 80% play tennis and 70% play golf. What percentage plays both games?

Extension: What is the smallest number of students in that class?