Division Day 2 Cereal Bars
Solve fun division word problems with cereal bars! Practice dividing whole numbers and fractions.
Congratulations! You have advanced on to day 2 of the weekly math challenge. Day two is is about using some of the skills from yesterday to determine how many cups of cereal go into different cereal bars. Today's objectives1. You can divide a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number.2. Solve story problems involving division of whole numbers with mixed number quotients.3. Solve story problems involving division of a whole number by a fractionMr. Cuzzone is trying to recreate cereal bar recipes to make different types of cereal bars and sell them at the Itasca Fest in July. He does not have a recipe card anywhere. All there is to go on is an old chart that shows how much of each kind of cereal is used in different numbers of bars. Use the information on the chart below to figure out how many cups of cereal he would need for each different kind of cereal bar. Cereals needed to make cereal bars Input your answers into the column on the right. Be sure to enter them in decimal form if necessary. If the answer is less than one, put a 0 in the ones place. Example = 0.2 Type of Cereal Cups of Cereal Number of Bars Cups of Cereal per Bar Lucky Charms 260 65 4 Trix 460 92 5 Kix 96 192 0.5 Count Chocula 186 31 6 Cookie Crisp 66 44 1.5 Reese's Puffs 92 23 4 Cinnamon Toast Crunch 120 48 2.5 Rice Chex 1 1 3 Cheerios 3 5 0.6 Cocoa Puffs 2 1 4 How many cups of Cheerios would be needed to make 5 cereal bars according to the data from the chart above? 3.5 3.0 2.8 3.2 Using data from the above chart, how many cups of Lucky Charms would be needed to make 27 cereal bars? 60 cups 96 cups 100 cups 108 cups Two friends, Ryan and Marco, disagree as to which cereal bar is the best. Ryan prefers Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Marco prefers Cheerios. With a lot of extra time on their hands , they work to produce the perfect new cereal bar that contains both of the cereals.Their new cereal bar, which they call the Cinnamon Toast Cheerio Bar requires 0.4 cups of Cheerios and 0.9 cups of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. They need to know how many cups of each cereal to buy. Fill in the blank with the correct amounts...(use numbers not words)1. The boys would need 45 cups of Cinnamon Toast Crunch to make 50 Cinnamon Toast Cheerio Bars?2. The boys would need 20 cups of Cheerios to make 50 Cinnamon Toast Cheerio Bars?3. In total, the boys would need 65 cups of cereal to make 50 of their new cereal bars. Be sure you answered all 15 questions in the activity. There should be 10 boxes in the chart, 2 multiple choice questions, and 3 fill in the blank.