To help us understand area we imagined that Baby Bear from the 3 Little Bears story was having a birthday party. He wanted to send out invitations on paper but he had a lot to say on them. We looked at 3 different shapes and sizes of paper and discussed which one had the biggest area to write on.
Mia chose the green one and said, "This one because it has the biggest space in it".
Next we talked about how every party needs a birthday cake! We pretended that some upturned containers were birthday cakes and discussed which one would need the most icing and why. We had lots of fun icing our pretend cakes with our delicious play dough icing!
What great ways to learn your maths! My goodness, you have a very imaginative teacher Room 26.
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