Math Activities Alongside Eggs!

Let's acquire crackin' (I hateful going)...

So many fun things to produce alongside eggs, only my all-time favorite is Fractions alongside egg cartons.

Fractions alongside egg cartons has been to a greater extent than or less for a while, only I'm non certain how many teachers together with parents know how many levels of fractions that tin live done alongside them.  You tin do identifying fractions, adding fractions, subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions, together with dividing fractions.  And spell doing those y'all tin speak almost fraction equivalents, mixed fractions, together with improper fractions.  Hopefully I didn't lose y'all there, only I volition live posting specific lessons afterwards on, only hither are a few examples of what to produce alongside EGGS together with egg cartons.

Egg Carton Fractions:  While y'all operate alongside eggs, y'all mightiness become alongside the plastic eggs instead.  Also, using a pic of the egg carton may live best when recording your findings.
  • Have fun seeing the dissimilar ways the eggs gibe inwards the carton.  What fraction is that?
  • You tin add together fractions...
    • And present how those fractions needed to become to the mutual denominator first...
  • Have fun exploring all the things y'all tin produce alongside fractions using egg cartons!
Adding together with subtracting: using plastic eggs...
  • Write numbers on your eggs together with position that many items within (jelly beans, blueberries, select anything that volition fit.) Have kids notice the eggs together with do adding upwardly their total.
  • For subtraction y'all tin write a work on the egg alongside a permanent mark (for example: 9-4=_ or 8-_=6) and
    1. have the kids position that many items within it.  OR...
    2. have baskets labeled 1, 2, 3, etc. representing the answers together with the kids convey to position the eggs inwards the basket.
Cooking alongside eggs: How many recipes convey eggs?  Look through a cookbook together with see...
  • Next fourth dimension y'all laid upwardly alongside eggs, position them inwards a mensuration loving cup for liquids--What's the majority within 1 egg, iii eggs, etc.
  • Make upwardly discussion problems to solve involving your family.  If everyone has a 2 egg omelet once a week, how many eggs would y'all convey used over i year?
Have y'all played math games alongside EGGS before?