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 Grocery Shopping Adventures
What Can We Find Today?

Beginner

At a food store, point out items in different parts of the store and encourage your child to identify their shapes and dimensions. 

Tip:  “The oranges are round” or “The bananas are curved.”

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Intermediate

At a food store, look at the quantities that items are sold in.

Tip: Eggs are sold by the dozen, milk is sold in one, two, or four litre jugs.

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Experienced

At a food store, look at the quantities that items are sold in. Compare how the price changes for different quantities. 

Tip:  Compare the price of 2 litres of milk to 4 litres of milk. How much more does it cost?

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Why is this important?

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 Learning with shapes, quantities, and comparisons help expose children to the presence of math concepts in everyday life. 

Reference: Dionne I. Cross, Olufunke Adefope, Mi Yeon Lee, & Arnulfo Pérez. (2012). Hungry for Early Spatial and Algebraic Reasoning. Teaching Children Mathematics, 19(1), 42-49. doi:10.5951/teacchilmath.19.1.0042

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