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Giant Penny Jars

  • 3 A Giant Penny Jar had 600 pennies in it at the start. People put 125 pennies in the jar each day.

    • a. Make a table that shows how many pennies are in the jar for each of the first 8 days.

    • b. On day 12, will the number of pennies in the jar be odd or even? How do you know? Find the answer without calculating the number of pennies in the jar for that day.


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison Unit 2 Generating and Representing Measurement Data Unit 3 Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems Unit 4 Measuring and Classifying Shapes Unit 5 Large Numbers and Landmarks Unit 6 Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids Unit 7 How Many Packages and Groups? Unit 8 Penny Jars and Towers