Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Fruit Tingle Graphs

 This term we did Activity Maths every Thursday. We had a lovely time visiting all the different activities that each teacher was running. There were five different groups and we saw a different teacher each week. In Lauren's class we looked at graphing and data with.....fruit tingles!




Why are there always less of your favourite colour in a packet of fruit tingles? Is it a secret plan by the lolly people to make you buy more? Or does every packet actually have the same amount of each colour? Do they even make the same amount of each colour at the factory? Perhaps all the colours mixed up and random so you just get what you get. We decided to become maths detectives and solve the mystery once and for all by gathering some data.




We opened lots of packets of fruit tingles and stacked up each of the colours to make a 3D graph. We drew a picture of it in our groups and then we combined our data (information stored in numbers) to make a class graph (our data presented as a sort of a picture).


Here is what we discovered from the data:

* There were more of some colours than others in a packet (eg. some packets had more pink, some had more green).

* The colours in each packet weren't arranged in an obvious pattern, this suggests they're put into packets at random.

* Each packet was different.

* As we combined the data over the weeks, the numbers of each colour went up and down.

* The more packets we opened and recorded, the more even the numbers of each colour became.

* If Lauren opens enough packets of fruit tingles, she will get lots of pink ones in the end!

*Fruit tingles taste fabulous!!