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Tempting Tentacle ANSWERS:

Problems Grades 1‐2:

1. 3 tentacles
2. 16 tentacles
Objective: The students will use basic math skills to
solve word problems related to corals. 3. 18 tentacles
4. 32 tentacles
Interdisciplinary Index: Science, Math
Vocabulary: octocoral, soft coral, hard coral, pol- Grades 3‐5:
yp, tentacles, colony 1. 360 tentacles
2. 16,000 tentacles
Materials:
• a copy of the Tempting Tentacle Problems work- 3. 1,620 tentacles
sheet, one for each student or pair of students 4. 18,000 tentacles
• pencils
• markers, colored pencils, or crayons (optional)

PRESENTATION:

1. Review the terms octocoral, soft coral, hard coral,
polyp, tentacles, and colony.
2. Remind the students that octocoral polyps (soft
corals) have eight tentacles. Hard coral polyps
have tentacles in multiples of six.
3. Have students work out the Tempting Tentacle

Problems individually or in pairs.

FOLLOW‐UP/EXTENSION:
Have students make up their own Tempting Tentacle

Problems!
Have students draw a picture to go with each
problem.

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