reSolve bakery 1

Hello there mathematicians, now this problem was sent to me by my friend Kristen Tripit at reSolve with the Australian Academy of Science and in the same way that I like to send you puzzles and problems and I'd like to send them out to your teachers as well.

So Kristen sent us this one to explore over the next few days. So it's all about the reSolve bakery. And you know which is good 'cause I really like cupcakes. So here's a question for us to consider.

Charlie is a baker who has his own cupcake shop. It is a small shop but very popular. Each day he bakes fresh cupcakes to used to work that out? OK, so you might have known here that when you u,m, that there's 4 rows and there's 6 in each row, and you might have a known fact that four 4 sixes are 24. Uh-huh.

You might have looked at it as 2 sixes, which is 12 and another 2 sixes, which is another 12, and you join those and it's 24. Yeah, you could have actually partitioned it the other way and said, well, I know 6 fours is 24. And then 2 fours more. 4 twos more. Uh-huh

OK, let's keep going with the problem. Each day, eight different flavours of cupcakes are made. One full tray of cupcakes for each flavour. There is one tray of chocolate, one of vanilla and one of red velvet velvet. There is one tray of strawberry, white chocolate, raspberry, and peppermint-choc. There is even a tray of chocolate marshmallow and one of salted caramel. All this task is making me feel hungry.

Do you have a favourite? They look really beautiful.

OK, so here's Charlie's dilemma. Charlie bakes 8 trays of different flavoured cupcakes each day. How many cupcakes does Charlie bake?

Yeah, so over to you mathematicians now to create a poster to show how you solve the problem. You might like to use a copy of the cupcake array to help explain how your strategy works. Yes, and because we love being George Polya, I'd like you to think about more than one different way that you could solve the problem.

Yep, you don't need to have the picture of the cupcakes if you don't need them, but over to you and we'll come back to this tomorrow. Have fun exploring.