How many grains of rice are in a kilo?

Rice is an ingredient used in some traditional dishes for Christmas in Romania:

• ,,sarmale" - cabbage leaves stuffed with ground pork and rice and served with polenta;

• ,,ciorba de perisoare" - which is a slightly sour vegetable soup made with fermented bran and meatballs (ground pork and rice);

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Let's find out how many grains of rice are in a kilo!

Rice is not associated only with food but also with the chess legend. 

To find out more details go to the following link. 

https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/ancient-history/origin-of-chess-legends

http://www.singularitysymposium.com/exponential-growth.html

http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/rice-and-chessboard.html

Finding out how many grains of rice are in a kilo is not an easy task. You must find solutions so that you don't reach the emperor's situation, you cannot solve the problem. 

The purpose of this task was to make you think, to work together to solve the task. Even if the first option considered was the counting grains of rice, it was not enough. Rice grains had to be divided into smaller groups and multiplication and assembly had to be used to find the final answer. 

These links can be useful: 

http://selever.freeshell.org/projects/math/rice.shtml

http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/rice-and-chessboard.html

I hope you had fun solving this task. I also hope that you have learned that things are not as simple as they seem, but not very difficult if we find logical and practical solutions.