M&M Problem

Here is a fraction problem the students are working on in teams to complete during math this week.  A couple groups have already completed this math problem.

M&M Factory

1. Open a bag of M&M’s.  
2. What is the total amount of M&M’s found in your whole bag of M&M’s? 23
3. Make a table displaying how many M&M’s of each color you have.

orange	9
red	2
green	2
brown	2
yellow	4
blue	4

4. What is the unit fraction for your bag of M&M’s? 1/23
5. Write a fraction naming the amount of each color M&M you have out of the whole set of M&M’s. 9/23, 4/23, 4/23, 2/23, 2/23, 2/23
6. Take 12 of your M&M’s.  Eat one-fourth of them.  How many M&M’s did you eat?  How many M&M’s are left? 19  

Eat two-thirds of these M&M’s.  How many M&M’s did you eat? 6  How many are left? 3

7. Eat the remaining M&M’s that you have from the original 12.  Write a fraction naming how many M&M’s you ate. 9/12
8. Trace a large circle from your template. Color in six-eighths of this circle with the color of your favorite M&M.  Write the fraction of the amount not colored in.  Can you think of another way to write 6/8?  3/4
9. Draw a picture.  There are 30 M&M’s.  1/5 of the M&M’s are red.  1/10 of the M&M’s are blue.  ⅙ of the M&M’s are green and 2/6 of the M&M’s are yellow.  The rest of the M&M’s are brown.  
10. Using the table you created, make a pictograph displaying this data.
11. Using the same data, create a bar graph.
12. There were five boxes of M&M’s.  Each box contained 6 bags of M&M’s.  Each bag of M&M’s contain 20 M&M’s.  If half of the M&M’s were brown, how many brown M&M’s were there?  
13. The third graders ate ⅔ of these M&M’s.  How many M&M’s are left?
14. If their teacher ate 9/10 of these remaining M&M’s, how many M&M’s were left?
15. Draw a picture.  ½ of the M&M’s are green.  ⅖ of the M&M’s are blue.  The rest were red.  How many were red?