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?
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