About This Lesson
This is a fun experiment for students to practice determining volume by comparing double stuffed and regular oreos. Keywords: volume of cylinders, average. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: 7.G.6, 8.G.9
Standards
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.
Know the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
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rstiverson
June 03, 2013
sunnychinlook
June 13, 2013
I love the idea of using Oreo (who does not love it) as the hook for an activity that connect several math topics: ratio, percent, volume, and Stat. I just want to point out that there are some discrepancies between the teacher's instruction sheet and student handout. This handout gives students autonomy to decide their approaches to figure out an answer for this question while the instruction sheet is more of a prescribed lesson.
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I love this idea, but my students are in the 6th grade and our focus is ratios. I am going to modify this lesson so students can predict the ratio of cream to cookie for a regular Oreo and a Double Stuffed Oreo. Then they can test their hypothesis by measuring the cream height in millimeters. Thank you very much for sharing this idea!