Monday Math Literature: Pumpkin Math

Mon Math Literature is happening on Th this calendar week but what tin I say.... it has been a crazy week. I wanted to percentage this mass together with lesson amongst yous today because it is really seasonal together with swell fun to produce inwards the fall. Check out this fun book!

How Many Seeds inwards a Pumpkin?

This story is nigh a grouping of kids who are asked past times their instructor to figure out how many seeds are inwards iii unlike pumpkins. They utter nigh the size of the pumpkins, estimating together with counting ideas. Some kids count past times 2's closed to past times 5's together with closed to grouping the seeds into piles of 10. There is besides closed to swell data inwards this story nigh how to justice how many seeds a pumpkin has merely past times looking at the outside.

I beloved this lesson because it combines my beloved of counting together with estimating routines. I began this lesson past times presenting my students amongst two pumpkins. I did this lesson amongst minute graders but it would operate amongst other kids K-3 amongst closed to modest adaptations. One was a really modest Jack live on Little pumpkin together with the other was a larger pie pumpkin. I asked them to justice which 1 had to a greater extent than seeds. Everyone was convinced that the larger pumpkin would convey a lot to a greater extent than seeds. We made closed to estimates but they were actually all over the house ranging from 17-1000.

Next nosotros cutting the pumpkins inwards one-half together with adjusted our estimates based on what nosotros saw. The estimates for the smaller pumpkin ranged from 80-200 together with the estimates for the larger pumpkin ranged from 101-320.

The within of the larger pumpkin

Inside of the smaller pumpkin

Kids worked inwards modest groups together with got all the seeds separated from the other guts. When I produce this lesson again, I volition live on certain to convey to a greater extent than pumpkins because despite this existence a smaller grouping of students, at that spot were to many kids working on each pumpkin. I would recommend no to a greater extent than than 4-5 kids per pumpkin for optimum working conditions. Kids continued to adjust together with refine their estimates every bit they seat the seeds all inwards 1 place. It was obvious to all students that at that spot were to a greater extent than seeds inwards the large pumpkin than the smaller one.

After a quick rinse of the seeds, the groups counted them by together with large grouping into 10's. We came to the determination that the modest pumpkin had 134 seeds together with the large 1 had 285. We spent closed to fourth dimension comparison these numbers together with wiring them inwards unlike ways. We finished upwards the lesson past times reading the book. It was interesting for kids to compare their ain sense amongst counting the seeds to the sense of the kids inwards the book.

This was a fun autumn lesson together with definitely 1 I volition live on doing inwards the future! There are a lot of flat levels that I could apply this lesson with.

My K-2 kids volition live on next upwards this lesson amongst closed to operate amongst pumpkin 10 frames.