IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

This week, we have been exploring the world of mathematics with the help of pumpkins! On Monday, I brought in four pumpkins. In the morning, students had opportunities to do observational drawings of our pumpkins. In the afternoon, we used them to explore the concept of estimation. I had each student estimate which pumpkin they thought would weigh the most. Then, after weighing all of our pumpkins, they were able to assess whether or not their estimation was correct. Next, they estimated how many pumpkin seeds were in the our pumpkins. We spent the rest of the day removing the contents of our pumpkins, which was ooey-gooey fun!

Then, on Tuesday, we used our different counting strategies to count our pumpkin seeds. We have been talking about counting by  1s, 5s, and 10s. After a class discussion, we decided that when counting a large number of objects, grouping them by 10 and counting by 10s would be the most efficient way to do that (ask your child what “efficient” means:). We then split up into groups, grouped our pumpkin seeds, and counted them!

Jaymi and Jermaine work to remove all of the "pumpkin guts" from their pumpkin.

Jamaria, Chloe, Madison, and Larry group their pumpkin seeds into groups of 10 to help count them!

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