|
|
|
|
|
(P. Bear is the main character in the story. He is a Polar Bear.) |
|
In the story, P. Bear (a Polar Bear) invites his friends for a New Year's Party. At each clock hour guests arrive. The guests are:
1 whale at 1 o'clock
2 horses at 2 o'clock
3 dairy cows at 3 o'clock
4 zebras at 4 o'clock
5 panda bears at 5 o'clock
6 mountain goats at 6 o'clock
7 snow leopards at 7 o'clock
8 Dalmatian dogs at 8 o'clock
9 skunks at 9 o'clock
10 Canada geese at 10 o'clock
11 cats at 11 o'clock
and 12 penguins at 12 o'clock.
Question: Can you guess what all the guests had in common?
Answer: ".etihw dna kcalb erew stseug eht llA"
At the end of the story, after all the guests had arrived,
the words in the book say,
" How many guests came to the party?"
We did math lessons to find the answer:
1. First, we wrote the names and numbers of the guests
in a column on the classroom whiteboard.
2. Second, we made estimates (our best guesses) of how many guests came to P. Bear's party in all.
Here are the estimates that our class made:
12, 29, 42, 43, 55, 58, 60, 67, 73, 78, 81
You can do
our math lesson to find the answer.
When you see a red sentence with a star *, that is a step for you to do in the P. Bear Math lesson.
* Make a list of the guests and make an estimate of how many guests came in all. Write your estimation on a piece of paper.
After
we made our estimates, we used different math tools to help us find
out exactly how many guests came to the party.
plastic
hippo counters plastic
kangaroo counters toy
plastic animals and
bean counters.
Working in small groups with different math tools, we lined up the "guests" that came to the party at each hour of the clock. We lined them up in rows.
