On the First Day of Christmas, My True Love....

We all know the song "The 12 Days of Christmas". When you think about it, whoever is singing the song's true love, ended up giving a lot of gifts! A Partridge in a Pear Tree every day for 12 days? That's 12 partridges! Two Turtle Doves every day for eleven days? That's 22 doves! So, we took some time today to see exactly how many gifts were given and how much all those gifts cost (we had a price list). After working for a while, Shay thought he had the right answer. The problem was that his answer didn't match my answer sheet. He was determined to solve it and tried a couple more times. Same answer! So, I sat down with Shay, Garet and Joseph and after four tries, guess what. They were right! The answer key was wrong. The total was $11,985.80! After we figured that out, we had to decide how many hundred dollar bills, twenties, tens, fives, ones and coins we needed to make $11,985.80. It was a lot of thinking and a lot of fun....we worked with partners and used calculators. The kids were great problem solvers. They were all very persistent!