Skittles: Taste the Rainbow!
Directions:
How many flavor combinations can you find?
Start with Original Fruit: lemon, orange, grape, lime and strawberry.
Add one flavor at a time from Wild Berry Skittles: melon berry, berry punch, wild strawberry, raspberry, and wild cherry.
Write a letter to the company, responding to their challenge. Summarize any patterns, culminating with your conclusion for the number of flavor combinations for all ten flavors. Justify any decisions/ assumptions you make.
Rubric:
What you said: Justification of answer, identified assumptions, discussion of order, use of calculator.
How you said it: Organized: intro, body, conclusion. Letter format. Spelling, punc. etc.
Extras: Charts, extension to 15 flavors (tropical), connection to 2n - 1