Bottles (1)

For this activity which explores capacity, you will need to collect some bottles and jars.

Exploring and noticing Working systematically Conjecturing and generalising Visualising and representing Reasoning, convincing and proving
Being curious Being resourceful Being resilient Being collaborative

Problem



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

 

 

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Bottles (1)



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/