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100th Birthday Celebration
Students devise a plan to seat 20 students at 6 tables, and share 100 balloons to decorate.

Bug Watching
Students determine the number of bugs seen during a week of bug watching given a pattern in sightings.

Chip Chance
Students determine the number of color chips in a bag based on sampling of data.

Hats and Scarves
Students draw snow persons with different patterns of clothing and color.

In Line
Students determine the ways students can line up in different orders.

License Plates
Students determine the different license plate combinations with three digits that total six.

Making a Necklace
Children decide how many necklaces can be made with string and beads.

Marsupials
Students identify the number of marsupials they see with a given number of tails and eyes.

Muffins
Students determine all of the ways to make 25 cents.

Sink or Float
Students investigate which items will sink and which will float.

Six-Pack of Soda
Buying six-packs of sodas in a week, students determine the number of cans produced in a month.

Snail Trails
Snails make slime trails, increasing an incremental amount each day. Students determine the distance the snails will travel by the end of the week.

Stacking Caps
A peddler carries different colored caps on his head. Students determine the different orders in which the caps can be stacked.

Whoo is Hunting?
Given a number of talons, students determine the number of owls in each family group.

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