Titanic Movie Math Challenge
Mr. Temple, Ms. Sivakumar and Ms. Grande are planning a trip to see the re-released version of the movie Titanic at the Cineplex. There are a total of 80 students from both grades 5/6. They are fundraising at school to cover the cost of the tickets. It costs $6.00 for each student to see the movie. Each day they are able to fundraise $15.00. If they fundraise for 22 days would they have enough money for all students to see the movie?
Answer
Mr. Temple, Ms. Grande and Ms Sivakumar’s Class will not have enough money for all the students to see the movie.
Strategy/Operations/Explanation using Math Terminology
I know that there are a total of 80 students in grade 5 and 6. The question also told me that it costs $6.00 for each student to attend the movie. I also know that each day we were able to fundraise $15.00. With this information, I wanted to figure out how much it would cost for all of the students to attend the movie. Therefor I took the total amount of students, which was 80 and multiplied that by the cost per ticket for each student, which was $6.00 that that equaled $480 which represents the total costs for all students to go to the movie.
Then I wanted to calculate the total amount that we would have fundraised in 22 days. In order to do this I again multiplied $15.00 dollars per day with 22 days and my answer was $330, which was the total amount that we were able to raise in the amount of days given.
Now that I had both totals, I needed to compare and see if there was a difference in the amounts. In order to calculate the difference I had to calculate the total required from the total raised. Which meant I took $480 subtracted $330. This difference of $150 dollars told me that we didn’t have enough money for all of us to attend.
Real World Context
In order for all the students to attend the movie, we need to figure out how many days of fundraising we need. I calculated this total by taking the amount that we were short by which was $150 and dividing it by the amount we can raise each day, which was $15.00, and my answer was 10. I understand this total to be the number of days left that I still need to fundraise.
I wonder what I would have to do to allow the teachers to attend…?
Mr. Temple, Ms. Sivakumar and Ms. Grande are planning a trip to see the re-released version of the movie Titanic at the Cineplex. There are a total of 80 students from both grades 5/6. They are fundraising at school to cover the cost of the tickets. It costs $6.00 for each student to see the movie. Each day they are able to fundraise $15.00. If they fundraise for 22 days would they have enough money for all students to see the movie?
Answer
Mr. Temple, Ms. Grande and Ms Sivakumar’s Class will not have enough money for all the students to see the movie.
Strategy/Operations/Explanation using Math Terminology
I know that there are a total of 80 students in grade 5 and 6. The question also told me that it costs $6.00 for each student to attend the movie. I also know that each day we were able to fundraise $15.00. With this information, I wanted to figure out how much it would cost for all of the students to attend the movie. Therefor I took the total amount of students, which was 80 and multiplied that by the cost per ticket for each student, which was $6.00 that that equaled $480 which represents the total costs for all students to go to the movie.
Then I wanted to calculate the total amount that we would have fundraised in 22 days. In order to do this I again multiplied $15.00 dollars per day with 22 days and my answer was $330, which was the total amount that we were able to raise in the amount of days given.
Now that I had both totals, I needed to compare and see if there was a difference in the amounts. In order to calculate the difference I had to calculate the total required from the total raised. Which meant I took $480 subtracted $330. This difference of $150 dollars told me that we didn’t have enough money for all of us to attend.
Real World Context
In order for all the students to attend the movie, we need to figure out how many days of fundraising we need. I calculated this total by taking the amount that we were short by which was $150 and dividing it by the amount we can raise each day, which was $15.00, and my answer was 10. I understand this total to be the number of days left that I still need to fundraise.
I wonder what I would have to do to allow the teachers to attend…?