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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

Use as independent work, project, or part of discovery before teaching the Triangle Sum Theorem in class. Great hands on work for students to become familiar with this theory. Students will discover through this activity that the angles of triangles always add up to 180 degrees. Students will tear off the corners of one of the triangles and arrange the corners on the straight line to show that the sum of the angles equals a straight line or 180 degrees. They will then glue the torn triangle on