Jelly Bean Math
Jelly bean math
Using jelly beans you’ll help your child recognize her senses, as well as make predictions, sort, and chart.
What You Need:
- Bag of jelly beans (with at least 4 flavors)
- Small bowl
- Crayons
- Printable Jelly Bean Graphing page
What You Do:
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Pour a small bowl of jelly beans.
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Introduce your child to the bowl of jelly beans and have them sort them by color.
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Once they’ve separated the colors have them count how many of each color.
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Use the printout to graph how many of each color there are.
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When your finished graphing, let them try out their sense of taste. See if they can guess what flavor each color of jelly bean is. Let them test by tasting to see if they are right. They’ll love this part!
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Laura from Stroller Parking Only
June 28, 2012 at 7:47 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Mmm. Jelly beans! Food is a great motivator for math! Maybe I would have been better at math if I had had jelly beans to make it fun! Following you via the MeloMomma Blog Hop. Love your blog header, by the way. So pretty.
-Laura
http://www.strollerparkingonly.com
Nicole
June 28, 2012 at 8:34 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Oh, I love this idea and I especially love the look of concentration on your little ones face. =)
Aloha,
Following ya now from the Melomomma link up. If you’re up for a bit of a ride we’re riding the wave of life at localsugarhawaii.com, one little adventure at a time. I’d love it if you’d join me for the ride.
xo,
Nicole
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Jessica
June 29, 2012 at 7:58 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Awwww your blog is so cute! This is such a cute idea! I found your sweet blog via MeloMomma’s hop. I’m hosting a hop this weekend too if you’d like to link up
Now following!
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Krista Morgan
June 29, 2012 at 5:59 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Love this idea. I have three small children and love manipulative activities to stimulate their precious little minds
New follower from Life with Twins. I’d love for you to stop by Cave Princess sometime!
Krista Morgan
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Susie Earning-My-Cape
June 29, 2012 at 8:22 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
How fun!!! I love this!
maryanne @ mama smiles
July 2, 2012 at 7:56 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Great idea! My family used to have a “guess the number of jelly beans in the jar” contest every year – and one of my brothers nearly always won. He’s an engineer now, no surprise there, I guess!
Thanks for sharing with learning laboratory at mama smiles =)
Nicole@Show Off Friday Blog Hop
July 2, 2012 at 10:29 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Great idea. Pinning it! I’m sure it’s hard to not taste before they’re done counting! Thank you for stopping by and linking up.
Carrie
July 5, 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Oh, how fun!! Reminds me of when I taught statistics only we used M&M’s and were introducing bar graphs and frequency charts. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
The Sisters
July 5, 2012 at 7:28 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
This is so great! Our kiddos are going to love it! Thanks for linking up to “Strut Your Stuff Saturday!” Hopefully we’ll see you tomorrow at 8pm MDT for this week’s party!
-The Sisters
Rebecca at Here come the girls
July 5, 2012 at 11:42 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Low hat a great way to teach graphing. I like the predictions at the end. That would be my favourite too.
Rebecca at Here come the girls
July 5, 2012 at 11:43 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Oh and thanks for linking to The Sunday Showcase.
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