Lolly Maths

 

Today we had the BEST maths session ever!!!! We wanted to investigate if Pascall Lolly Scramble packs had the same number of each type of lolly in them and also if each pack had the same number of lollies altogether.  Mrs O doesn't like the Milk Shakes so always finds it a waste of money when she buys a pack and it has lots of these type of lolly.  She wonders if it is lucky dip depending on which packet she picks up off the shelf or if ALL packets have the same number of milk bottles.

 

 We began by sorting and tallying the number and type of lollies.

 After we had tallied all of the data, we had to present the data in either a bar graph, pictograph or dot plot graph.  Once our graphs were complete we had to come make some statements about our investigation.

Connie's bar graph

Toby's dot plot

Jessica's pictograph

Lastly we got to share out the lollies amongst our group.  Yummo!  Before we could eat them we had the challenge of working out how to share the lollies equally amongst our group members.  One group worked out that each child should get 5.6 lollies, then figured that it would be tricky to have 0.6 of a lolly so decided that 5 lollies each with 3 left over was the best option.

So what did we find out?

• All Pascall Lolly Scramble packs have the same number of lollies - 28
• All three groups found that Milk Shakes were the most common lolly found - we are still not sure if this would be the case for every packet of Lolly Scramble lollies.  They suggest that Mrs O should perhaps buy a different sort of lollies as there were 6 or 7 Milk Shakes in each packet.
• There were different numbers of each of the other types of lollies so we predict that a machine sorts 28 random lollies into each packet.