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Math Monday: graphing

January 10, 2011 Ticia 10 Comments

We’ve done some graphing before, but not huge amounts.  Partially because our math curriculum doesn’t really cover graphing yet, and partially because I’m lazy.

And laziness was the gestalt for this activity.  Mainly, I didn’t want to fix the kids breakfast, and I remembered Phyllis over at All Things Beautiful writing a post about making snacks and using it to write a recipe.

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Well, I knew my kids couldn’t write the recipe, so I made up a worksheet for them real fast.

And of course, right after I’d printed up our first recipe I realized that I hadn’t laid out those ingredients, so I made a second one.

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No really, I made two different ones for this.  And even after we’d started I realized I’d forgotten to leave a place for M&M’s on the chart.

And if you’d like to use either one, just click on the picture and that will take you to the page to download.

015Before I let them have at it I set up a few ground rules.  Mainly you had to have at least one scoop of each item, and whenever you did the scoops you had to then make sure to color in one square for each scoop.  That took some demonstrating, because as I said I haven’t done as many graphs as I should have.

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What followed was a frenzied few minutes of happily getting as much food as they could fit into those little bowls. Hmph, it won’t let me watermark the other one without messing up the picture.

And yes, that is Princess wearing a tank top in the middle of January, I bought it for her earlier this week thinking “summer clothes, that I can fiddle with,” and she’s refused to take it off since I bought it.  That girl……..
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And they happily munched on their breakfast all through school that day.

We did do some extension activities, of looking at which thing they had the most of, and what they had the least of.  Superman kept pointing out that he had “no jelly beans, because I don’t like jelly beans.”  He was very worried about this, but was quite happy to eat the other food.

Head on over to Joyful Learner to see some more fun math ideas.

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Comments

  1. Debbie says

    January 10, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    What a fun way to learn about graphing!

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  2. MaryAnne says

    January 10, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    You are such a fun mom! It sounds like Princess shares Emma's taste in clothing…

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  3. Phyllis says

    January 10, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    What a nice idea of turning the lesson into graphing!

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  4. Joyful Learner says

    January 10, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I love how we can bounce ideas off each other! I might try this with different apples when we have a playgroup!

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  5. Wonder Mom says

    January 10, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    Food ALWAYS makes math…er, reading…um, science…pretty much ANYTHING fun, doesn't it?

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  6. Christy says

    January 10, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    My kids would love this. It's REALLY cold here and my daughter is in a tank top too! It's a good thing our house is warm.

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  7. Raising a Happy Child says

    January 10, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Cool snacks! I am tempted to email you Anna's current fashion preferences. It doesn't include tank tops but features proudly leopard print leggings with bright purple skirt and green top.

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  8. littlewondersdays says

    January 11, 2011 at 1:53 am

    What a fun and great way to learn about graphing. Sassyfras is SOOOO opinionated about her clothes and my boys seriously don't care.

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  9. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    January 11, 2011 at 4:43 am

    So, I need to reread this…did you say you were too lazy to make breakfast, so instead sat down to create terrific worksheets, that turned breakfast into a math lesson? I'm not sure you understand the meaning of lazy 🙂

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  10. Kim says

    January 11, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    I love this idea! We do a lot of graphs, but I haven't done one kike this. Thanks for the idea.

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