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Teach/Learn – Graphing Smarties
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I am not sure if my littlest ones could have done this activity without eating them all! I like the idea of using grids and you could compare so many different things.
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Don’t worry, the extra smarties we scooped out mean they had some in a little box to eat while we were doing it! We still have the final left overs sitting there.
I am sure my girls would be engaged in a candy math activity. Great idea to graph them…and the reward for completing their candy graph is obvious! For some fun science experiments with candy you should check out http://www.candyexperiments.com. I know we’re talking about math, but the candy reminded me of this site.
I’ll have to check it out, although anything that gets me to buy more isn’t necessarily a good thing 😉
I LOVE it! What a fun idea and a great way to introduce graphing concepts. Now that’s one math lesson your daughters won’t forget!
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Very fun and looking at the amount of Barbie shoes on the floor I reckon we could graph them 😀
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Great idea, and easily adaptable to even the littlest kids. I’m sure we could find a few things to graph around here. Nicole mentioned her kids struggling not to eat the chocolates. I think it would be ME struggling with not eating them rather than my kids!
Awesome activity! I was going to ask too how many made it into mouths before on the paper but looks like you’d already thought of that before you began 😉
That is just the most fabulous activity! I’m going to send my teacher sister over to your post! Are they slightly over because they don’t pack half smarties or m&ms? We might try this with the little boxes of smarties. Love the idea that graphing can be so much fun.
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Princess saw the photos as I loaded this page and even though she is not very well at the moment the colour returned to her face as she cried “M&M’s!!”, which I think means we have them in the house more often than we havee Smarties (anothr observation! LOL). I think this is an experiment that she would love to try, and I am sure that counting the number of colours and how many of each colour will keep her occupied (and learning) long enough to earn herself a little reward (once she is all better, of course!). Maybe we can even thow in some mini M&M’s, or some peanut ones in .. .all in the name of learning, of course! LOL
I am *so* glad to have found you!
I home ed my four kids, and I am always on the look out for science ideas.
YAY!
(I found you via Childhood 101: We Play, in case you were wondering)
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How to make maths interesting for kids and adults alike… use chocolate! Great idea, especially like the idea of the weighing bit!
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I love this activity. Its all about self-control when it comes to having the chocolate there in front of you hehe.
I have done this with using those little packets of smarties. The fun-size ones. I didn’t weight them though, just had the students graph the different colours and then we discussed the comparison between each groups. Then we got to each them 😀
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