Valentine’s Day Skittle Math Lesson

1. Each child gets two packages.
2. Count the total ______
3. Complete a graph of the total for each color below. Remember to add titles to your graph.

4. Which color had the most? _______

5. Which color had the least? _______

6. What was the range from the most to the least of all colors? _______

7. What was the average amount of any one color? (Add up the totals of all colors and divide by the number of colors to find the average) _______

8. What was the median number of colors (the number of colors in the middle)? _______
9. What was the mode of colors? (The color amount that showed up most often) ______

10. List the fraction, decimal, and percent of each color compared to the total of two packages.

Make up a number story problem about Skittles. Solve the problem. Then show it to a teacher. Challenge: Make your number story a multi-step problem.

Word Problem

Solution with Pictures (Models), Numbers, and Words

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