Grade
5

Would You Rather? The Cookout

You need 500 hamburger buns for a cookout.
Would you rather buy …

Packages of 12 buns for $3 each? Or packages of 10 buns for $2.60 each?

I would rather buy … because …

Use pictures, models, words, numbers or symbols to justify your choice.

Challenge

Think of one thing you could change about one or both scenarios so that your decision would be different.

Follow-up

Create your own problem like this one. Share it with someone else and ask them to explain their choice.