Sheet # 6/Critical Thinking Easter Math Problems
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Explain and Show Your Work
It is the end of Easter Bunny's very hectic Easter Saturday. No video tonight. Tomorrow morning, very early, he has a lot of deliveries to make. The Easter Bunny has his last 6 basket of eggs all lined up and ready to fill.
The Smith family has Sam (a 7 year old boy), twin girls Suzy and Sally (aged 5), and Spencer (aged 3). The Brown family includes Babette (aged 4) and Belinda (aged 6).
Easter Bunny is basing this year's egg distribution on ages. For each year of age of a child he'll put 2 marshmallow eggs in his or her basket. He'll put in three chocolate foil-covered mini-eggs and one hollow chocolate egg (with icing trim), using the same age-based formula. In addition to this, he is getting rid of big hollow chocolate bunnies - one per basket. That will ensure he uses up all his stock so that next year all the Easter treats are fresh.
Use a chart to show Easter treat distribution. Also show the total number of each kind of treat that Easter Bunny is giving to each family. Then find out the total number of each kind of treat for the two families combined. Finally total all the treats for the Smith and Brown children for this year.
Challenge: For bonus marks can you find one or more ways to express this information as equation(s) using brackets/parentheses correctly?