Look What’s Happening in Room 102!

We had a fun math class today counting pumpkin seeds. Yesterday we opened up 3 pumpkins – a large one, a medium sized one and a small one. We stuck our hands in and pulled out all the seeds. We put the seeds into 3 bags. I took them home, cleaned them and toasted them in the oven so that they would be easier to count. So today we started with the seeds from the large pumpkin. I gave each student a pile and we put them in groups of 10. We decided we would count these seeds by 10s. After all the seeds were distributed we counted by 10s and the seeds totaled 440. We decided to count the medium sized pumpkin by 5s. This was more of a challenge. Again, I gave each student a pile of seeds to put into groups of 5. To count by 5 I put tally marks on the chalkboard. We counted 480 seeds. We sure had a lot of tally marks on the board. See some pictures below. Sorry but even though I had my camera ready on my desk today I totally forgot to take photos of all our amazing counting.