Grade
4

What Comes Next? Cups & Tablespoons

A table shows the relationship between cups in the top row and tablespoons in the bottom row. 1st column: Cups 3, Tablespoons 48. 2nd column: 5, 80. 3rd column: 7, 112. 4th column: 9, 144.

What do you notice? What do you wonder? What comes next?

Show or tell what the next few columns on the table look like. Describe how you know.

Challenge

What number will be in the Tablespoons row when the Cups row has a 21? How do you know?

What number will be in the Tablespoons row when the Cups row has a 1? How do you know?

What number will be in the Cups row when the Tablespoons row has a 1? How do you know?

Follow-up

Create your own measurement number pattern and share it with someone else. Ask them what comes next!