Holiday Cookies and Bar Model Example

Suzanne went to a holiday cookie party.  She made 300 cookies.  She took 3/4 of them to the party, and gave 1/3 of the remainder to her neighbor.  How many cookies did she have left?

Try to use bar models to solve the problem...  Once you are done, check out my strategy.

                                                              

Remember, this strategy enables our younger students to understand algebraic concepts.  We begin this work with bar modeling in second grade.