Happy St. Patrick's Day

     Good evening all!  Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Our class had a special snack today in honor of St. Patrick's Day.  We had Lucky Charms Cereal as a snack.  We also did something special with our Lucky Charms.  We counted the marshmallows in 3 boxes and then created graphs of our results.  Check them out below:

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

     Here is a bar graph comparing all three boxes.  Our class predicted that the hourglass and the green hat would be the shapes found the most.  We were correct in our prediction.

However, we did notice that the number of marshmallows varied from box to box.  We attributed this to probability.  We assumed that since the marshmallows are put in the box at random, then the number of marshmallows would vary from box to box.  So, next time you buy some Lucky Charms, count the marshmallows to see how many your box has in it.  Happy St. Patrick's Day!