The document describes a group of girls visiting the green department of a shop to compare the weights of different fruits and vegetables. They try to guess which items are heavier or lighter than others. The saleswoman then precisely weighs some of the items, determining that the cabbage was the heaviest at 2170 grams, while the grape was too light to weigh. The girls pay with a credit card and take the cabbage and grape back to school in their backpack to eat at lunch the next day.

1. Maths Around us – Maths in the Shops Furugrund Iceland November 2008

2. Heavy and light at the green-department in the shop.

3. The girls outside the shop

4. Inside we go!

5. ..and where is the green-department?

6. Here it is...

7. How heavy or light are these fruits?

8. We think these apples are even

9. This cabbage is very heavy

10. My melon is heavier than your lime

11. Woo! This one is heavy..

12. Yes.. The cabbage is heavier than cucumber

13. The broccoli is bigger, but lighter than melon

14. I think these onions are not at same sort, but they are even

15. What do you think?

16. Yes the lemon is heavier than lime, but not as heavy as swede

17. We can’t decide which one is the heaviest, but...

18. ..we know the grape is the lightest

19. ..so we ask the sales woman to weigh it for us The melon was 985 grams.

20. Then she weighs the swede The swede was 1015 grams.

21. Then it’s the cabbage The cabbage was heaviest, 2170 grams.

22. Our small grape is so light that she can’t even weigh it

23. Then we have to pay with Fjola’s creditcard

24. .. and the sales woman gives us a receipt

25. We put our cabbage into a plastic bag

26. ...and also our small grape

27. We put both into our backpack

28. We walk to our school

29. ..and put the cabbage and the grape into our fridge. We will have it at lunch tomorrow

30. The end