I picked up a 1/4 lb of mixed nuts at the grocery store this week to use in school. First I had K. put them into groups by the kind . . . walnut, almond, brazil, hazel. Then we talked about what they looked and felt like. The walnut is roundish and wrinkly. The almond is oval and has holes. The Brazil is triangular with smoother wrinkles. The hazel is round and smooth.
Next K. counted each kind of nut and we made a bar graph. We talked about most, least, fewer, and more. Then we used tally marks to count up the total number of nuts. After that my husband cracked the nuts open. We talked about which was easiest to open and which was hardest. For an older child we could have weighed the nut meats and figured the cost per pound for them. (We paid $1.99 lb for them in the shells.) We could have even compared the cost to purchasing shelled nuts and seeing if we saved money or not.
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