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Number sense: Ice cream scoop
The ice cream scoop task can be solved in different ways and can also extend to work in combinatorics – a nice way of organizing counting. Ask students to work on this task in groups, and to display their results on posters. One strategy is to name students’ different approaches and strategies. Topics: Counting, probability. Concepts: number sense. This task is from YouCubed, a project of the Stanford Graduate School of Education.