Fair Sharing Among Friends - II

Click on the activity below to see how many cakes have to be shared among a number of students. Click on the demo button to see how to use the cutting tool for cutting cakes. Please have a copy and pencil with you so that you can draw and work out the share of students if needed.  
After you have distributed the cake fairly among all the children, take a Screenshot and upload it on the platform “ Gallery” in this folder that you have created called “ PR Unit 1”. For help about how to take a screenshot and upload, refer to help video in Lesson 1, Activity 1.1 .

Have you uploaded the screenshot of the activity in the “PR Unit 1” Folder in the Gallery?
If not, please upload the screenshot by clicking this upload button. 

Were there any differences in the strategy thought by you and your buddies? Write all the different ideas you thought about for distributing the cakes ?

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What did you finally decide as your groups’ strategy for distributing 5 cakes to 4 students? 
Giving one whole cake to each child and then dividing the leftover cakes
Giving half a cake to each child 
Giving ¼ cake to each child 
Giving ¾ cake to each child
Any other ….

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What are all the possible correct answers that you can think for telling the share of one child when 5 cakes are distributed among 4 children ? Write at least 3 after clicking this button.

 

Task 4 
 Write a note about what you learnt from your mistakes in this activity? 
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Task 5




Let us discuss:

Task 6   
What is different in this situation where 5 cakes are to be distributed among 4 children and the earlier situation where 3 cakes were to be distributed among 4 children? Click on the button below to discuss with your friends.