Archive for June, 2009

Guest Post - Ice Cream and Math

Guest Post today from Nikowa at theKnowledge House Academy

This week’s Math U See lesson is about memorizing the colors of the unit bars. Well I wanted to get creative so I did a Google search for “numbers, ice cream cone” & came up with this great site .

I immediately printed it out & wrote (with a sharpie) each number (through 10) on them. Then we colored each ice cream scoop to match the corresponding unit bar.

Math Ice Cream

The boys LOVED putting it together & placing it on the wall!

We named each level a different flavor! Hopefully this will “stick” with them.
We have

  • #1-Lime Sherbet
  • #2-Orange Sherbet
  • #3-Strawberry
  • #4-Lemon
  • #5-Blueberry
  • #6-Grape
  • #7-Vanilla
  • #8-Chocolate
  • #9-Mint
  • #10-Blue Raspberry

What a yummy way to learn math!

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Thanks Nikowa for letting us share your yummy idea :)