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Teacher Notes for Cereal Box
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Cereal Box Worksheet
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WHAT IS IT?
Use this activity to help students look at simulations. A cereal company has decided to include a toy of a cartoon character. There are 6 different characters in all. Students will create simulations to illustrate collecting one of each of the toys by imitating the purchase of boxes of cereal. The choice of how the simulation is created is left up to the student. Various simulations are shown in the teacher notes.

GRADE LEVEL
9 - 12

STRAND
Statistics/Simulation

CLASS TIME
75 minutes

MATERIALS
    Cereal Box Worksheet (one for each student)
    Dice (for each group of students)
    TI-84, TI-84+ calculator or other graphing calculator (optional)
    Computer with Fathom™ II software (optional)