Polar bears and penguins

Alice looked out her window and saw some penguins and polar bears having a luau in her front yard. She saw 12 animals altogether. She counted a total of 40 legs. How many penguins were in Alice’s yard?

Step 1: Underline the important information. Alice looked out her window and saw some penguins and polar bears having a luau in her front yard. She saw 12 animals altogether. She counted a total of 40 legs. How many penguins were in Alice’s yard?

Step 1: Underline the important information. Alice looked out her window and saw some penguins and polar bears having a luau in her front yard. She saw 12 animals altogether. She counted a total of 40 legs. How many penguins were in Alice’s yard?

Step 2: Draw ____ animal bodies.

Step 3: Each animal has at least ____ legs. Draw ____ legs on each body.

Step 4: Count how many legs you have so far.

Step 5: Draw ____ more legs on each animal until you have a total of ____ legs.

Step 6: In order to find out how many penguins there are, count how many animals have ____ legs.

Step 1: Decide what characters you will be using in your problem. Make sure to choose two animals that have a different number of legs.

Step 2: Decide how many animals you would like there to be. For example, I chose for there to be a total of 12 polar bears and penguins.

Step 3: Split the number of animals or objects up. For example, I decided that I wanted 8 polar bears and 4 penguins.

Step 4: Multiply each number by how many legs that animal has.

Step 5: Add the number of legs together.

Now you can write the problem. Tell what kind of animals you are looking at. Tell how many total animals. (Don’t split them apart or you will give the answer.) Tell total number of legs. Ask how many of one type of animal. This is a question so it should end in a question mark.

What to turn in. You will turn in 3 note cards. The first on will have your problem written in cursive on it. (skip lines) The second will have the answer to your problem. The third will have a color picture of your two animals. (Not all of them, just one of each.) Put your name on all three cards.