Citrus Week Consolidation

Today grade 9s consolidated the work for citrus week.  The class worked together to place the weight of their fruit on the number line. 

We noticed that the smaller fruits had smaller amounts of juice and the bigger fruit had more juice.  The orange had the most juice even though it was not the biggest fruit.

The class challenge was to use their information to predict the amount of juice that could be made from 10 oranges.

The class used the information from Gerald the Orange to make predictions.  The estimate was that 10 times Gerald would be 3240g which would make 1800mL of juice.

These oranges from today had a weight of 1517 grams which is about half of what the guess was.  So maybe the new guess for the juice would be 900mL.

When the oranges were all juiced there was a lot of pulp left in the juicer

There was a lot of juice.

The juice was measured out, and added up.  There was a total of 600mL of juice.  Less than expected.

There will be more citrus adventures next week!