Aim:
What does it mean to be fair?
Standards:
Reasoning and Proof Strand
2.RP.6 Develop and explain an argument verbally or with
objects.
2RP.7 Listen to and discuss claims other students make.
Communications Strand
2.CM.4 Listen to solutions shared by other students.
Mini-Lesson:
I began by telling my class that we were doing a special
math project today with M&M's. I told them you need
to sit quietly and I will give directions after everyone
has received their M&M's.
Activity:
Give some students one M&M and other students
five M&M's. Wait to see if any students speak up and
question why certain children got more than others. Listen
to those students who verbalize the injustice and then ask
students to talk about how they feel. Chart their responses
and when a student brings up fairness, discuss what it means.
At this time the class can read the aim. Students write
in their math journals\learning logs how they felt about
this activity and how they would make it fair if they were
handing out the M&M's. All students get the same number
of M&M's and can eat them!
Share:
Students can read their responses from their journal.
Extension
Activity: M&M Game
There
are two players. Place the cards on the large M&M's
face down. One player places their game piece on the x on
one side of the game board and the other player places their
game piece on the X on the other side of the board. The
object of the game is that the players get their game piece
on the other players’ X and the M&M's they both
collect at the end of the game are evenly divided between
the two players at the end. A spinner is used or a die is
rolled to determine how many spaces the player moves their
piece. Each colored M&M that makes up the game board
has a saying: Pick a card, take 5 M&M's, eat 3 M&M's,
move back 3 spaces. The player moves their game piece accordingly.
When they land on “pick-up 4 M&M's” they
take four M&M's from the pile of paper M&M's to
keep. If the space says to “eat two M&M's”
the player puts back two paper M&M's. There is no winner
or loser at the end, they are both are winners with the
same amount of M&M's. If there ends up being an uneven
amount of M&M's at the end of the game both players
determine how to make it fair! My kids made this game up
and they love playing it.
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Subject
Areas:
Math
Grade Levels: K-2
About
the teacher:
Trudy Kane is a second grade teacher at
PS 88 in the Bronx. She has taught in New York City for
nine years, her experience ranges from pre-kindergarten
to second grade. She is currently a lead teacher in her
school teaching mathematics in the morning to her own class
and coaching teachers in the afternoon. She received her
undergraduate degree from Wheaton College in Massachusetts,
her master's from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York
and graduate credits in administration from the College
of St.Rose in Albany. She is looking forward to being a
MetLife fellow this coming year.
trdteachertrudy@cs.com
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