How many jellybeans are in this jar?
This jar of jelly beans will be on display in your Integrated 1 classroom for one period only.
Enter to win
On your own paper, submit an entry to Mr. Eastman in room F222 with the following:
- Your name and math teacher.
- Your estimate of the number of jelly beans in the jar.
- Your mathematical support for your estimate. (Be sure to use words, numbers, and/or diagrams to show how you arrived at your estimation.)
Note: Entries are limited to one per person. |
Prize
The entire jar including the jelly beans inside!
Judges will award the prize according to the following:
- Entry is complete.
- Entry is on time. (Submitted before 8:00am Friday, March 7 2008.)
- Entry estimate is the closest* to the actual number of jelly beans in the jar.
- In the event of
of multiple entries which have equally close estimates, judges will award the prize to the entry that they believe is
the clearest in mathematical communication.
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Note: This contest is limited to current Integrated 1 students at Ferris High School.
*closest: the value of how "close" an estimate is will be caculated by the simple distance between the estimate and actual. For example, 8 and 12 are equally close to 10.
