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Problem Solving Using Percentages
Students explore the concept of percentages. In this percentages lesson, students find the percentages of various colored m&m's in their bags. Students find the cost of items before and after a discount. Students use proportions to...
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Let's Count!
This number sense PowerPoint quizzes students on counting objects from one through ten. Students identify the number of M&M's on each cookie and check their answer on the following slide.
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Trail Mix
Third graders, given the price of different ingredients, make a trail mix of five different items without exceeding their budget of five dollars. They choose between pretzels, M&M's, twizzlers, popcorn, etc,. Each student practices...
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Subtraction with Counters
First graders practice subtraction with manipulatives. In this subtraction lesson, 1st graders use M&M's to count and then take away. They write number sentences to match their subtraction problems.
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M&M Counting Activity
In these M&M math worksheets, students count the M&Ms on each card and then match their total number to the correct card that shows the written number.
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M&M Counting Fun
Students count up to 10 or more M & Ms using verbal names and one-to-one correspondence, as well as use sets of M & Ms to represent quantities given in verbal form.
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Scientific Method for Middle Schools
Students use the scientific method to solve a teacher scenario. They bring in M&M's. Students are given a copy of the scientific method. They first come up with a problem. Students are told that they are going to conduct an...
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M&M Cookie Math
Students munch their way through a cookie keeping a tally of how many M&M's are found of each color.
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Five Fingers for Eating Lunch
First graders listen to the book, The M&M's Brand Counting Book, discuss the one-to-one correspondence and count the candies in the story. They focus on the number five, and listen to the story Sun Up, Sun Down, discussing the...
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M&M Graphing and Probability
Students create a variety of graphs. They count, sort, and classify M&M's by color and record data on a chart. They use data from the chart to create pictographs, bar graphs and circle graphs. They analyze data and determine...
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Which Color Will You Pick?
Students create a spreadsheet to chart the different colors found in a package of M&M's or Skittles. They collect data, create appropriate charts, and use percentages to describe quantities.
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Collecting Data and Graphing
Eighth graders, in groups, count the different colors of M&M's in each kind of package and then draw a pictograph to show the results. Each group writes a program to show their results and then compare the manually-drawn and computer...
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Linear Progression
Students use graphing calculators to graph lines and create tables of values. They perform an experiment using M&M's and slinkys, then create their tables based on their results.
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True Grid
Students explore probability by predicting the probability of the occurrence of each color in a sample of M&Ms.
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M&M Statistics
Students determine the difference between guessing and making a prediction. They discuss what they could graph using a bag of M&M's. They take a Raw data sample and convert it into a sample. They graph the actual results and combine...
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Environmental Graphing
Students experiment with graphing. In this graphing introduction lesson, students complete four activities: 1) a bar graph based on class birthdays 2) an estimation graph of the raisins in raisin bread 3) another estimation example with...
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M&M Exponential Activity
Young scholars create a scatter plot of their experimental data. In this algebra lesson, students use M&M's to determine an algebraic model. They discuss results in class.
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Dissolving M-and-Ms
Learning ... how sweet it is! A hands-on lesson uses colored candies to demonstrate how positive and negative charges interact. Pupils use different types of liquids and watch as the color from the candies spreads—or doesn't.
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Letter Mm M&M
In this recognizing the letter Mm worksheet, the learners view a large M&M, read and follow written directions to color, cut Mm's from magazines or newspapers, and practice printing upper case M and lower case m. Students complete...
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M&M Alphabet Matching
In this M&M alphabet matching worksheet, students match the capital to lowercase letters by cutting them apart and clipping them together. Students cut and match fifty-two letters of the alphabet.
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M & M Number Practice: 1-20
In this numbers worksheet, students cut out cards with the numbers 1-20 on them to use in an M&M counting game. Students choose a card, then count that many M&M's onto a "counting mat" card that is a picture of an M&M.
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Letter Mm
In this early childhood letter M activity, students circle all the uppercase and lowercase Ms in the box with a red crayon and follow the directions to color the M & M.
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Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
In this early childhood letter recognition worksheet, students examine the 5 lowercase letters in the left column and match them with the 5 uppercase letters in the right column.
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Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Letters 2
In this early childhood letter recognition worksheet, learners examine the 5 lowercase letters in the left column and match them with the 5 uppercase letters in the right column.