- Go to the store to buy apples.
- How many apples make a pound? (counting and weight)
- What will be the price the amount you need to buy? (Weigh your apples, then multiply it by the cost per pound to find your total.
- Is your bunch of apples within your budget? (Give a budget amount-like $3- and have them stay within that amount.)
- Can you figure out the amount of change from your budgeted amount? (money and subtraction)
- Eating apples.
- How many bites does it take you to eat a whole apple? (counting) How long did that take? (Time it and see!) Find the average time for each bite. (Take your number of bites divided by the total time.)
- Cut the apple into slices (eighth is probably easiest). (fractions)
- How many slices can you eat? (adding fractions)
- If you have to share the apples with a group--divvy them out equally. (dividing fractions). Are there any left over? Can you cut the piece to divide the apples equally?
- Time your group of apple eaters for a minute and count how many apple fractions are left compared to your total. (subtracting fractions)
- Random other ideas...
- Make patterns with colored apples.
- Find the circumference around the circle part of your apple. (geometry measurements)
- How many apples fit in different size bowls. (counting and spacial measurement)
- Make graphs using apples.
- Who in the class likes green vs. red?
What other things can you do with your student/child and APPLES?
