Pascal’s Pizza Pizzazz

cropped-diagonals_polygon.gif Math Happening- Fridays are always Pizza night!

Each Friday, we try to order a different pizza with our 5 favorite toppings. Some night we feel like having just plain good ole NY style Cheese pizza with no toppings. Our family favorite toppings are: Pepperoni, Spinach, Ham, Mushrooms, Tomatoes.

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What questions do you have ? What do you wonder about?

cropped-diagonals_polygon.gif Posing my math question: What are all the different pizzas we can order with 5 toppings? Would we have enough flavors to not repeat in one year ?

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What do you wonder about?

What do you know or notice?

What information do you need?

What assumptions can you make?

How will you solve the problem?

Math Wonders:

How is the combination math happening related to Pascal’s Triangle?

http://mathematicscentre.com/taskcentre/183pizza.htm
http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/pascal/pizza_pascal_answers.html

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMAT6680Su12/Berryman/6690/BerrymanK-Pascals/BerrymanK-Pascals.html