The “Go Green” company held a week-long recycling contest at your school. The grade that collects the most bottles and cans wins the contest.
Your task is to determine which grade won the “Go Green” contest.
The items that can be recycled are shown.
Plastic bottles
Aluminum cans
Glass bottles
Students from the 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade classes collected bottles and cans and brought them to school.
Table 1 shows how many bottles and cans each grade collected on each day of the week.
Question 1
1.
Use Table 1 to help you answer this question.
On which days did the 3rd grade class collect more cans and bottles than the other two grades? Select all that apply.
Question 2
2.
Use Table 1 to help you answer this question.
On Tuesday, how many more bottles and cans did the 4th grade class collect than the 3rd grade class?
Question 3
3.
You are the contest judge. You need to figure out who won the contest. Did 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade win the “Go Green” contest?
Use words and numbers to clearly explain:
which grade won the contest, and
how you know they collected the most cans and bottles.
Question 4
4.
The 2nd grade class got excited about the "Go Green" contest and wanted to join in. They started collecting bottles and cans on Wednesday, even though they missed the first two days.
Complete the table to show a way for the 2nd grade class to still win the contest.
Question 5
5.
Use your answers from questions 3 and 4 to explain how the 2nd grade class could have won the “Go Green” contest.