| Original Problem: | Decide how you would divide five candy bars evenly among 3 people. Justify why you would divide Now decide 2 other reasonable Justify why you might choose each |
1. Problem Statement
This problem is called Candy Bars. The problem is to split five candy bars into three equal piles. You have to do this three different ways. Then you have to tell why you might choose each way of doing it over the other ways.
2. Process
I tried to solve the problem by drawing different ways of cutting the bars. I guessed different divisions and then checked if they were divisible by 3. So, guess and check was my strategy.
First Way of Cutting
I divided 5 by 3 and got 1 remainder 2. So I first gave each person a candy bar and then divided up the remainder. I drew a picture to show this way.
Justification: This way uses less cutting than some other ways of dividing. Also, each person gets a whole candy bar.
Second Way of Cutting
The next way I thought of dividing the candy looked like this
Justification: I might use this second way to divide the candy bars to give everyone bite sized pieces. This would be safer for young children.
Third Way of Cutting
The last way I thought of dividing the bars was the weirdest.
Justification: The third way of dividing is better than the first way because it gives each person more individual pieces.
3. Evaluation
This problem was easy. I liked that this problem had something to do with fractions. I felt that the hardest part was thinking of two other ways to make three piles out of five candy bars. I learned an easy way to find out if a number is divisible by 3. You just add up the digits and see if that is divisible by 3. I also learned that there are many different ways to write the same fraction. I am most proud that I solved the problem in one day.
