Olive Toil

Olive Toil Activity

We are learning to work with unit of mass, volume, time and money.

1. *Joan and Dave harvest a total of 1200 kg of olives from their groves.

1. Is Charlotte correct? No
2. Why? Because they have 600 trees and each of those trees and each of those trees produce 20 kg of olives.
3. Operation needed? Multiplication
4. How? I took out the knots from 600 and 20 and we’ll have 6 and 2. We multiply the 6 and the 2 which gives us 12. You then add the nauts. (e.g 12000)
5. Answer: 12000

    2)  * The olives from 2 trees fit into 1 bin.

1. Is Charlotte correct? No
2. Why? Because each tree produces 20 kg and the bins are 10 kg. Charlotte says that 2 trees can fit into one bin.
3. Operation needed? Adition.
4. How? We add the 20 together which equals 40. 40 kg can’t fit onto a 10 kg bin.

     3)   If they had to store all their harvested olives, Dave and Joan would need 1 2000 bins.

1. Is Charlotte correct? Yes *
2. Why? Because you have to divide 12000 by 10
3. Operation Needed? Division
4. How? 10 Divide by 12000 = 1200

    4)   In an 8 hour day, the press can process 2 000 kg of olives.

1. Is Charlotte Correct? Yes *
2. Why? Because I multiplied 250 by 8
3. Operation Needed? Multiplication
4. How? 250 X 8 which equals 2 000

    5)* It takes 8 days to process Dave and Joan's olives.

1. Is Charlotte Correct? No
2. Why? Because I multiplied 24 by 250 because it said on the activity that the press can hold up to 250 kg an hour.  Then I divided 8 by 6000 which gave me 750.

    

    6)  If all 10 growers in Joan and Dave’s group have the same sized groove, each produces 1 440 L of oil.

1. Is Charlotte correct? No /
2. Why? Because it said that Joan and Dave are on of 10 growers who share that press and on that year they have all produces 14400 L of oil.

   7)   Joan and Dave’s olives produce 5 760 bottles of oil.

1. Is Charlotte Correct?