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EGG-celent Math Lessons and Learning Activities
Are you looking for math lessons to accompany a unit study of eggs, birds, amphibians, reptiles or other egg layers? Here you will find dozens of fun math activities using eggs as math manipulatives. Sometimes we will use plastic eggs and sometimes we will use chicken eggs. How can we use eggs to teach math?
Photo Credit: Herring Gull Chick and Egg
Used under creative commons
Count you egg before they hatch!
Skip Counting Eggs by 12's
Hens, Little Girl Gathering Eggs in Hen House
Available on Amazon
1. Choose an egg basket.
2. Estimate and record the number of eggs you think will fit in the basket.
3. Fill the basket with eggs.
4. To count the eggs, move the eggs to egg cartons that have been labeled with numbers skip counting by 12's.
5. Record your answer
Weighing Eggs
Learn how to weigh eggs
Photo Credit: Tim weighing eggs
on Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Scientists weigh the eggs of oviparous animals in the wild as a way to measure their health. What can scientists learn from studying the weight of eggs in the wild?
Set up an Egg Weighing Center.
1. Provide eggs. Usually we weigh chicken eggs but sometimes we weigh quail eggs, goose eggs.
2. Make sure that the children know how to clean up after a spill and wash their hands thoroughly.
3. Label each egg and provide paper for recording information.
Which is your favorite Egg Math Activity?
Would you rather count or weigh the eggs?
Photo Credit: Gathering Eggs
on Grandma's Graphics, Public Domain
Egg math can be lots of fun. We learn from a scientist how to weigh eggs using a hanging scale. We count eggs as we gather them or count them by the dozens. There are many fun ways to measure eggs. What is the circumference of an egg? What is the difference between the circumference of the egg if you measure around the narrow width compared to the long width?
How much does the yolk weigh compared to the white of the egg? What other ways could you measure an egg?
Turtle Eggs in the Sandbox!
Using math to count how many turtle eggs in the sandbox
Pacific Ridley Turtle Laying Eggs in a Hole She Dug in the Sand
by Steve Winter
Available at Allposters.com
Turtle eggs such as those of the Pacific Ridley Turtle, above, are round and resemble ping pong balls. Did you realize that turtles are oviparous animals?
Turtles lay their eggs in the sand.
Eggs, Math and Oviparous Animals!
Counting Egg Laying Animals Reinforces Understanding of Place Value
Unifix Cubes - 1000 per Box; no. DD-2BKA
Amazon Price: $83.65 (as of 05/31/2012)
Unifix Cubes fit together easily to form rods of ten blocks making it easier for children to understand such concepts as place value. You can buy Unifix Cubes in smaller quantities, I just liked the illustration here as it shows how to put the blocks together when we are counting egg laying animals.
100 Plastic Easter Eggs
Crack the eggs and discover the math...
Place letter tiles in plastic Easter Eggs to spell out the names of oviparous animals. Children crack open an egg, rearrange the letters to spell the names of egg laying animals. If you use Scrabble letter tiles you can tally your score to see who scored the most points in 5 minutes.
For advanced learners, find out how many points per minute. Do you accumulate more points in the first minute, second minute, fifth minute?
Did you count your eggs before they hatched?
Have any Egg-related Math Ideas?
Photo Credit: Goslings Hatching form Eggs by acaben
Used under creative commons.
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