Presley has been obsessed with math lately. Our dinner conversations have evolved from talking about our day to Presley asking us to give her addition and subtraction problems to solve. When Blaine and I try to act surprised and give the obligatory "Oh my goodness, how on Earth did you know that?", we always get the same response from Pres : "Mom (insert slight eye roll here), I know how to count on my fingers!".
I thought it was time to step it up a bit, so for St. Patrick's Day we introduced graphs!
We started with a small bowl of Lucky Charms. I asked Presley guess which marshmallow she though had the most in the bowl. It was at his point I figured we would throw in a bit of the scientific method as well, so we also learned the word hypothesis.
After she guessed that the purple horseshoes had the most, we decided to take each marshmallow out and put it where it belonged on the graph.
Looks like pink hearts had the most!
She loved the graph and asked if she could take it to school for show and tell that week. When I asked her what would probably happen when we put it in her bag for school she said "Oh no, all the marshmallows will fall off!". Looks like we needed to make another graph to represent the first. I told her to color in the squares to go with the first graph we made. That was all the direction she needed before she was off and coloring!
We ended up putting both graphs in a folder and she did take them for show and tell.
When I picked Presley up from school on that day, the teacher that helps her into the car said how much they loved her graphs. Presley was so proud and smiling from ear to ear!
I might need to start brushing up on my algebra and geometry just to keep up with her!
