Illustrative Mathematics
Ice Cream Cone
Every pupil with a sweet tooth will be clamoring for this lab and analysis, particularly when they're allowed to eat the results! Volume and surface area formulas for cones are developed from models, and then extended to the printing of...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Ice Cream
I scream, you scream, we all determine the amount of ice cream! Pupils calculate the amount of ice cream flavors needed based on survey results in a short summative assessment. They determine the number of tubs and cost of ice cream to...
Curriculum Corner
Ice Cream Booklet
On the days leading up to summer, use a booklet of practice skill sheets in the classroom. Beginner pupils should be able to master the skills they've learned in math and reading before they head home for the summer, like counting to 30,...
Curated OER
We All Scream for Ice Scream
High schoolers explore the formulas for volume of three-dimensional objects. They participate in various activities involving ice cream, ice cream cones, small candies, and gum balls, recording their calculations on a lab sheet.
Illustrative Mathematics
Ice Cream Van
In an open-ended problem, learners calculate costs involved in driving an ice cream van. Is it better to park in one place or drive through different neighborhoods? Learners look at these and other factors and must make reasonable...
Worksheet Web
Using Pictographs
If one ice cream cone represents three ice cream scoops, and Bob has four ice cream cones, then how many scoops does Bob have? Learners solve these kind of questions with their new understanding of pictographs.
Curated OER
Do You Prefer Ice Cream Cones, Sundaes, Or Malts?: Graph
In this favorite ice cream bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates how they prefer their ice cream and record the responses to complete the graph.
Marilyn Burns Education Associates
Eighteen Flavors
Your learners will be tantalized by this inquiry-based, collaborative activity as they discover how to write an equation that represents the height of an ice cream cone. Given the scenario based on the poem, "Eighteen Flavors," and...
Curated OER
Ice Cream Pictograph
Students create a graph. In this pictograph lesson, students cut out 20 small ice cream cones and decorate them. Students create a pictograph with their ice cream cones.
Curated OER
How Many Ice Creams?
Students discuss their favorite ice cream flavors and read the math problem. They brainstorm the problem and brainstorm for ways to solve the problem. Students work in pairs and share solutions.
Scholastic
Study Jams! Making Change
This dreamy resource has little ones computing the change on the purchase of an ice cream cone. Mia describes each step in two methods: subtraction of decimals and counting up from the sale price.
Curated OER
Triangles and Ovals- Ice Cream Cones
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students look for ovals and triangles in a picture of three multi-scoop ice cream cones. Students follow the directions to color each shape they find.
Curated OER
Adding ice cream
In this addition worksheet, students add one digit numbers on ice cream and then match it up with the correct answer on a cone. Students add 50 problems on ice cream.
Radford University
Surface Area and Volume
Who knew there were pyramids in China? Learners apply surface area and volume formulas to several different real-world situations. They calculate the volume and surface area of an aquarium, an ice cream cone, and Egyptian and Chinese...
Curated OER
Make Patterns With Ice Cream
In this ice cream patterns instructional activity, students cut out ten scoops of ice cream and two cones. Students team up with a partner and exchange matching different patterns for the other one to model.
Curated OER
Matching Activity: Ice Cream
In this matching worksheet, learners connect matching pictures of ice cream cones, drawing a line to match. Worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.
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Ice Cream Number Card
In this counting activity sheet, students cut out 10 ice cream cone shapes which are numbered 1 through 10. They then cut out 10 pictures of scoops of ice cream which are marked with dots, representing numbers 1 through 10. Students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
I Scream for Ice Cream!
Young scholars perform an experiment. In this combinations lesson, students complete an experiment where they find out how many ice cream cone combinations they can make with 5 different flavors of ice cream and 4 types of cones. They...
Curated OER
Count the Ice Creams
In this math worksheet, students count the eight ice cream cones. After counting the cones, students may color them as they are black and white outline pictures.
Curated OER
"A Slice of the Cone"
Here is a set of lessons that explore conics in a number of different ways. Starting with modeling how a conic is produced by the way a plane cuts the cone, to solving complex word problems, algebra learners progress through a series of...
Curated OER
Ice Cream Scoop
In this data display worksheet, students write 6 flavors of ice cream on pieces of paper. Students choose papers one at a time and keep track on a tally sheet. Students make a bar graph of the results.
Curated OER
Count Forward from a Given Number
Using images of ice cream cones and carrots, this counting exercise has learners find sets of images with one more than the given set. For the first question, they count a set of six cones, then examine four other sets to indicate the...
Curated OER
Screaming for Ice Cream
Mathematicians investigate maximizing volume by learning to explore the problem in which they seek to maximize the volume of a cone. Students solve the problem symbolically, graphically, and through the use of integration or...
K5 Learning
Multiplication Word Problems #3
How many people can ride a Ferris wheel with 14 seats, each of which holds 6 people? Learners assess this and four other multiplication word problems, and are encouraged to show their work. They use double- and triple-digit numbers, and...