Holiday Lights
For Kwanzaa, there are 7 candles on the table. The candles are green, red, and black. If there is one black candle and the same number of green and red candles, how many green and red candles are there? Show how you know.
For Hanukkah, Henry and his father began cooking latkes at 3:40 in the afternoon. They finished with a stack of fifty latkes at 5:10. How long did it take them to cook all of their latkes? (see link below for more)
Use an open number line to prove how you know.
For Christmas, Mr. Looney made a pattern of lights that went green, red, blue, yellow. What color was the 24th light? What about the 98th? Write a rule to predict the color of any light by just knowing the number.