Home School Halloween Math
October 21st, 2008
Even of you don’t participate in Halloween, you can have a little fun with it while staying away from the ghosts and ghouls. Here are a few tips for learning math in your home school this October.
Bag of Halloween Candy Math
- Estimate how many candies are in the bag. Discuss strategies for making accurate estimates (size of candies, counting a few, etc.) Then count them. Try putting the candies into groups of ten to make it easier to count.
- Make a graph of the different types of candies that come in the bag.
- Poll a sample of people to find out which candies from your bag are their favorites. Create a graph with the results.
- What shapes do candies come in? Can you find a sphere? A cube? A cylinder?
- Learn a little about fractions. Empty a bag of M & M’s. Find out what colors there are. Find out how many candies there are. Count how many of them come in each color. Now figure out the fraction of the total bag each color is.
Have fun eating some of the candy after doing some math!
5 Responses to “Home School Halloween Math”
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LOVE the ideas!!
Bookmarked for the first week of November
Have fun!
Great idea! It is so much fun to teach our kidlets @ home… we are the best teachers our kids could ever have, and with the ideas of other parents like yourself, it’s even better. Thanks bunches!
I’m glad that you like the ideas, Marie! Have fun with your kidlets!
Oh! I’m so doing this one!!! Awesome idea!!! hugs!