Try Autumn Math With Apples and Pumpkins
Use the sights and smells of autumn to teach basic math concepts such as counting, sorting and graphing.
Materials
Directions
Once back from the apple orchard, farmers market or grocery store, have your child organize the apples and miniature pumpkins by color. She should sort the dark reds, bright greens and mixed colored apples, and the pumpkins of orange and white, while you prepare a simple bar graph template for her.
Help your child spell out each color and write the total count for each color on index cards. Next, help her label each axis on the bar graph with quantity and colors.
Have your child color the individual bars for red, green, orange, etc.
Can she count seven red apples? Awesome! Ask her to color a red bar up that far. Continue until each apple and pumpkin color is represented brightly and boldly on the graph.
All that’s left to do now is make homemade cinnamon applesauce and a real apple pie!
Jeff Bogle is an at-home dad who writes humorously about parenting and “all things childhood” on his site Out With the Kids. He is married to an adorable redheaded gal and has two lovely little ladies, who provide him with countless hours of humorous in-home entertainment, and who get to hear, see, and play with more cool stuff than you can possibly imagine.
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