Start your day with some math about a favorite breakfast food. What do you notice in the story below? What are you wondering about? Leave a comment to tell us your thoughts!
Boxes of Cereal
Lily and her little brother Mikey eat different kinds of cereal, but their cereals come in the same size box. Every morning at breakfast, Lily eats four times as much cereal as Mikey does.
One Monday, Lily started with a new full box, while Mikey still had half a box to finish.
It appears that when Mikey, has half a box still to eat, Lily has -1 box of creal!
The only logical assumption i can make is that, the two starting creal boxes had different quantity of creal inside, though the box size is the same.
I believe its a matter of vision, volume and perception of what we can see outside a dark box and what may the inner box contain.