Middle grades students should be given ample opportunities to explore probability and statistics topics. In particular, students should be encouraged to collect, organize, and describe data; construct appropriate charts and graphs to summarize the data; make predictions and conclusions based on the data; and test these predictions and conclusions (NCTM 1989, 2000). In this article, we describe three activities, all of which involve materials that students are certain to enjoy—Hershey's Kisses candies.
