4,175
Everyone at school is stunned by how many catalogs our 146 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students canceled. I had to triple the size of the original storage bin I built! Just how many catalogs did they cancel? Check out these piles!
The kids canceled 4,175 catalogs! Last Friday the kids counted out 167 piles of 25 during two recesses. They weighed each pile and found that we had 1,117 pounds of paper. Or 7.7 pounds canceled per child. If the 146 kids canceled 4,175 catalogs, some quick math tells us that’s 28.6 catalogs per child. This is the figure schools - large or small - can use to compete (in a friendly way) with each other. A small school could cancel only a few hundred catalogs, but have more catalogs canceled per child and therefore “win.”
Check out these detailed results for math activity ideas. If each of our 4,175 catalogs canceled doesn’t show up only four times in the next year or two, we will have saved 47 trees, 25,050 gallons of water, and the energy equivalent of taking 2.5 cars off the road! Not bad for a an elementary school!
But I keep wondering, “What if dozens of schools did this? Could we cancel 100,000 catalogs? Could we help planet Earth in her time of need?” And I nod and I say to myself, “I hope so!”
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