Zoey and Katherine’s Dinner in Space

your dinner in space

You’re super excited for dinner tonight: Mac and Cheese is on the menu! But oh no: Mac and Cheese comes topped with Fish and Mushrooms. You don’t want to hurt the chef’s feelings, so you sneak every bit of Fish and Mushrooms off the plate and launch it into the sky on a Black and White hot air balloon. But Fish and Mushrooms doesn’t fly far before a hungry seagull gobbles it up. Problem solved, dinner served!

Wee Ones:

Can you find 3 Black and White objects near you? Which item is largest?

Little Kids:

If you’re at a restaurant sharing 10 plates of Fish and Mushrooms with a seagull,, how many different ways could you and the seagull share those plates?

Bonus:

If there are twice as many Fish and Mushrooms-topped cupcakes as Mac and Cheese-topped ones, and there are 7 Mac and Cheese-topped ones, how many Fish and Mushrooms-topped cupcakes are there?

Big Kids:

You’re opening your own restaurant and order a big box of 72 onions! But 1/2 of the onions are Black and White – that can’t be good. How many onions do you need to toss in the compost?

Bonus:

Oh no! The onion people also keep delivering 4 1/2 pound boxes of Fish and Mushrooms every Wednesday this May. How many pounds does that add up to for the month?

 

Answers:
Wee Ones:

Different for everyone!

Little Kids:

There are 5 ways that you and the birds could split 10 plates: 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5.

Bonus:

14 Fish and Mushrooms-topped cupcakes.

Big Kids:

36 onions. 

Bonus:

22 1/2 pounds, because there are 5 Wednesdays in May this year.

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