{"id":74083,"date":"2020-06-16T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=74083"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:10:05","slug":"birthday-cakes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/whats-new\/birthday-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Problems<\/h5>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>pencil<\/li>\n<li>paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Jack was one year old his mother bought a package of candles for his birthday cake. The package had 24 candles.<\/p>\n<p>That year she put 1 candle on Jack&#8217;s cake. When he was two he had 2 candles and when he was three he had 3 candles, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74084 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/candles.gif\" alt=\"3 birthday cakes, one with one candle, one with two candles and one with three candles.\" width=\"428\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One day Jack&#8217;s little sister Kate was born. Jack\u2019s Mom used candles from the same package for Kate\u2019s birthday cakes.<br \/>\nShe had 1 candle on her first birthday cake, 2 candles on her second birthday cake, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The candle package was empty after one of Jack&#8217;s birthdays with just enough for Jack\u2019s cake.<\/p>\n<p>How old were Jack and Kate when the candles finally ran out?<br \/>\nHow old was Jack when Kate was born?<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Hints\/Questions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Your child might want to draw the candles for Jack\u2019s first few birthdays to get started.<\/li>\n<li>How many candles will have been used for Jack&#8217;s cakes by the time he has had his fourth birthday? Fifth birthday? . . .<\/li>\n<li>How does this help us to decide when Kate could have been born?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrich.maths.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jack was one year old his mother bought a package of candles for his birthday cake. The package had 24 candles. That year she put 1 candle on Jack&#8217;s cake. When he was two he had 2 candles and when he was three he had 3 candles, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72818,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74083\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}