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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cereal Box Problem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A cereal company is offering six different prizes in their boxes. How many boxes would you expect to have to purchase in order to collect all six prizes? Known as the Cereal Box Problem, this question is explored here. A solution is...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Boxed in and Wrapped Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Planetary Cereal Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a project which would be appropriate to use at the end of a lesson about the solar system. Students will decorate an empty cereal box with information and games showing their comprehension of factual information about an assigned...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Cross Sections and Nets: Cereal Box Grid

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore cross sections and nets of three dimensional objects. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Collect All Ten to Win!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate a contest that requires obtaining 10 tokens found in the bottom of specially marked cereal boxes. They determine the average number of boxes to be bought in order to collect all ten tokens.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Tus Ojos

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the part of your body that lets you read the back of your favorite cereal box, and let you see all those beautiful things around you.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Make a Guitar, Vibration Experiment

For Students 1st - 5th
Experience how vibrations make sound by constructing a guitar using rubber bands and a cereal box.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Waiting Times

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Suppose each box of a popular brand of cereal contains a pen as a prize. The pens come in four colors, blue, red, green and yellow. Each color of pen is equally likely to appear in any box of cereal. Design and carry out a simulation to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Collecting Pens

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How many boxes of cereal must you buy to collect all six different prizes? Calculating this using probability rules is much more difficult than finding the answer using simulation. This lesson plan includes worksheets for students that...

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