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Jelly Bean Math

by Angela Thayer 4 Comments

Here’s my confession: I love Starburst Jelly Beans! They are my favorite candy this time of year. So, I had to pick up a bag the other day. We decided to do some math activities with these jelly beans.

First, we counted them. I created this sheet of 6 circles for sorting, but it worked well as a tool for counting.  Jellybean Math Then I had Troy sort the jelly beans by colors.

Sorting jellybeans

I do have to brag on him–he’s getting really good at sorting! This was also a good fine motor activity, since the jelly beans rolled around and he had to carefully place them in the circles without knocking the other jelly beans down. I had Troy tell me which color had the most. He thought green did. So to find out I had him count green and yellow. Then we made a graph to visually see which color had the most.

Graphing Jelly beans

For another math activity, I found some plastic eggs and put numbers with corresponding dots on them.

Jelly Bean Eggs

Then I had Troy fill the eggs with the correct number of jelly beans.

Filling Eggs For a listening activity, I had him listen to the sound 1 jelly bean makes in the egg. Then we tried higher numbers and compared how they sounded. It was a good listening activity for him and it was fun shaking the eggs!

Shaking Eggs Do you know any other activities that use jelly beans?

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  1. Rosmina says

    April 29, 2017 at 6:07 am

    Thank you for sharing. These are such fun for children to be engaged in Math activities.

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  2. Stef Layton says

    March 30, 2013 at 8:17 pm

    I’m dying for a jelly bean now. Such fun ideas – thanks for sharing.

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  3. Gina says

    March 27, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    he is so cute. Did he eat his math after?

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    • Teaching Mama says

      March 28, 2013 at 3:40 am

      Thank you!! Actually, he doesn’t like jelly beans! I offered them to him, but he gave him to his brother instead. He’s kind of picky about eating sugary candy…which I won’t complain about!

      Reply
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