Materials Needed:

A bag of plain M&M's for each student (or group of students)

Handout for each student

Discussion before the bags are opened:

1. How many M&M's are in each bag?

2. How many of each color?

3. Will all 6 colors be in each bag?

4. Which color will occur the most? the least?

Extension:

Have students to research the Mars company official percentages for each color.

In this activity, students find the probability of choosing a particular color M&M given the number of M&M's in their pile. If you choose to , you can have them graph their results on a bar graph.

**Skittles can be substituted for the M&M's bag. This is a great activity to get students to have fun with math.