I have to teach an edible math lesson in class...?

Question

I'm a special education major and I have to teach a lesson in class on either addition, subtraction, patterns, or anything very simple like that. It had to use edible manipulatives...anyone have any ideas? They would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Get Skittles or M&Ms or some kind of colorful candy. You can add or subtract the amounts of each color. For example, "Add the amount of red skittles to the amount of green skittles. How many do you have in all?" Something easy like that. It's also easy to make patterns using the colors. If you wanted to go even more in depth, you could do fractions with the colors. "What fraction of your skittles are purple?" (Put the number of purple over the total number.) All of those are pretty basic lessons. You can easily type up a worksheet for it on your own or even handwrite it. Just prepare a bag of whatever edible treat for each person ahead of time so you can control (assuming you'll want to) how many each person gets and how many of each color each person gets. Good luck with it!

Answer 2

Use any small food product like m&m's, skittles, pieces of fruits, fruit snacks use them to make patterns. If they are old enough or for future reference, I always did a graphing exercise using m&ms. Make a graph master and have the kids color in one square for each color of m&m. You might also start off by having them estimate how many m&m's they think are in the package. That's where individual packages come in handy, as they can't see them. It is cheaper to buy larger bags and just fill baggies if you don't want to do the estimation.

Answer 3

Division with small cookies. First count how many cookies there are. Then give each child a small plate. "Deal" out the cookies to the students to see how many each will get when you divide the total amount by the number of students in the group. Division is just multiple subtraction.

Answer 4

We always used M&Ms, but grapes or pretzels would be healthier as I know many school districts discourage the use of candy. Pretty much anything somewhat small and easy to manipulate would be good. Gummy bears are probably healthier than M&Ms. Just make sure to have extras on hand as some always seem to "disappear."

Answer 5

Sure, use M&M's (go with chocolate and be sure of any peanut allergies if you go with peanut). They're good for any operation you want to do. You can even do fractions with them. For example, put down two green and one red. Ask the child what fraction is red (1/3); then ask what fraction is green (2/3). When the child is correct on both questions, allow him or her to eat 'em up!

Answer 6

Make sandwhiches and cut into halves and quarters.

Find a very simple recipe, and double it.

Patterns are intersting with pasta (dried preferably)

Graph to show number of choc chips in chos chip cookies...

Answer 7

there's always
"if you had an apple and you cut it in half, then you would have ....2.... pieces"

"if you cut the 2 pieces in half, then you have ......4....."

Choose something they like to eat. They will remember the math better because every time they eat it, in the back of their mind will be your little exercise.

Tailor it your specifics (like lunch time in the cafeteria) and they will remember it better too

Answer 8

you will have a pizza party! you will have them no longer slice it so which you will to show approximately halves and addition and subtraction. you additionally can use some style of coloured candy like gummi bears or M&M's with diverse colorations to make types and stuff.

Answer 9

make a sandwich or you can use fruit snacks.
like everytime you put something on there just add it as one.
just but however many fruit snacks u want on one side and add it to the others or something

Answer 10

Jack has three apples. His friends help him eat two. He has how many left?? If his friends help him eat the last one, how many will he have left???