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You need to find a collection of jars and bottles of different sizes and shapes, like those in the picture below:

 

 


I wonder which holds the most/least liquid?
Use estimation first of all.
How could you find out?  Explore!

Can you find a way of counting how many "small container-fulls" each will hold?
Can you find a better way?

 

 

Having done that you might like to more on to Bottles 2

 

Photograph Acknowledgement
http://www.jarsandbottles.co.uk/