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Teaching Maths Language with Food
This list of ideas can be used for lessons within a classroom or during preparation of snacks or meals in the home. They are designed to help you teach or make it easier to explain some of the language that mathematics concepts are built on.
Apples…
Cut the apple crosswise to find the star… Count the points and count the seeds.
Cut the star out with an apple corer — it’s a cylinder. The hole in the apple leaves a circle.
Continue cutting the apple crosswise into slices to...
Had enough of beading???
Next time you need to help your child learn patterns, instead of getting the beads and thread out, why not have ready different coloured pieces of fruit and wooden scewers? This could help motivate your child to try different fruit and you prepare a dessert or snack for later. Other language that could be covered while learning patterns with this activity is the description of some of the pieces of fruit, eg soft, hard, mushy, juicy, , round, red, etc…
