Math U See Cake Recipe

Kelly’ granddaughter, Hailey is 4 yo and her favorite math activity is making a cake. While she isn’t officially in Primer she is well on her way. As you will see when you read her cake recipe, she already as some math mastery just from playing and talking to granny about it.

I asked her for the recipe.

Math-U-See Big Red Cake with Designer Frosting 

First you make the cake by stacking ALL the red ones on top of each other.

There are different ways to make the frosting and this is the method used for the design in the picture:

First you put as many blues (5’s) as possible around the outer edge. There will not be enough room to finish the edge in blue  so you will need to fill in with pink. Put the remaining blues on the inside top.

On the inside edge add 2 of the 2’s followed by 8 greens

At this point fill in with the rest of the pink  because it is important to use as many pink as possible before running out of room because a princess always uses pink.

There was a spot just right for a yellow. When asked what size would fit in there Hailey immediately said “Four”!!! Who hoo good job Hailey you have mastery! When you get to the lesson on solving for the unknown it will be a piece of cake for you!

Add 3 more 2’s and finish it off with 1 green.

Serves as 1 math lesson and a whole lot of fun.

Hailey sometimes call the blocks by color and other times by number.  Granny can be proud of how well she and Hailey are progressing in their maths!

Hailey will be checking in. So please leave her a comment.

Thanks

Sue

Math U See the Luker Man Way

When the older siblings are working on math the younger ones tend to naturally want to get involved. Such is the case with Luke and Hailey. When Hailey is making cakes and fences with the blocks Luke looks for window of opportunities to do a little Math U See too.

This is Lukes version:

First you put the dvd in the player. (Luke has mastered opening the player, putting in the dvd [sorta] and closing the lid.)

Then you get the blocks out… er dump the blocks out.

To get things exciting from the get go always go for favorite blocks (the units) first. The trick is to grab quick, run, and try to get them in your mouth before being stopped by an adult or your big sister. (Luke is pretty good at this but thankfully because units are the #1 choking hazard in the box, has not reached 3 second mastery. ) When units are unavailable the 2’s get pretty much the same response.

Under a VERY watchful eye 8’s, 9’s and 10’s seem to not cause such a stir and are better than nothing.

Hmm so what DO you do with a fist full of blocks ????

You can give them to pa pa….

Offer them to “Sugar” the dog to lick..

and/or lick them yourself… licking them after the dog is optional and can actually get almost as good of a reaction as units and 2’s

Please note: These photos and story was for the purpose of a fun post for the blog. We are not suggesting to start using the blocks with your 1 yo. Luke will be much older before he is given this much freedom with the blocks again. Math-U-See blocks are a choking hazard and not recommended for children under the age of 4.

Math-U-See question??

Ok, all you Math-U-See fans who ski.

Using Math-U-See language, how do you convert a Math-U-See user(or rep) into a Math-U-Ski user (rep)??

We are heading for the slopes tomorrow… we think we already have an answer but what is yours?

Sue

Centralia- flood

We are fortunate that neither Kelly nor I live where houses are flooding.

However our niece’s apartment may have had up to 5 feet of water. We just recieved an e-mail from her this evening with a link to a photo of her home Nicki’s house . Please say a prayer for the hundreds of people who are displaced because of this storm. Especially those who do not have family close by to help.