Happy Friday! Today's Friday Math Task is a fun one. It draws on the children's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. It's more of a whole-class exercise, so what I'm sharing with you today are the directives for a teacher to facilitate this activity. Here are the directives:
Materials: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.
Students work individually or in pairs. Each student or pair needs:
- Three ten-frames for each student or pair of students (see PDF for black line master)
- 30 counters or unifix cubes per pair of students
- One small dry-erase board and dry-erase maker per pair of students
Read the book to the class and asks, “How many things do you think the caterpillar ate in this story?” The students take a minute to share their estimate with a partner.
Next, reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar again. After each page, pause so that the students can add counters or unifix cubes to the ten-frame to represent the number of things the caterpillar ate, and then write an equation on the dry-erase board connecting addition to the number of counters used. After each ten-frame is filled in the students move to the next one.
If the students are working in pairs, one student can add the counters/unifix cubes to the ten-frame while the other student writes the equation. By the end of the story, there should be a total of 25 food items eaten and 1 leaf eaten. (The students can decide as a class whether to count the leaf as a food). There will be two ten-frames completed with 5 or 6 counters/unifix cubes on the third ten-frame.
If students come up with different, but correct, equations, then discuss the different equations and ask students, "Can all of these be correct?"
Sunday I'll post a debrief of this task. If you've got a copy of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," feel free to try this task on your own before I share out on Sunday.
And have a lovely weekend!
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