M&M Math

I discovered something today. If, at the usual math lesson time, you pull out a bag of M&Ms and announce, "This is our math lesson," you will be hailed a conquering hero by your kids (at least until the M&Ms are gone).

This week our focus is graphing, and I found these awesome M&M graphing and sorting worksheets at http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3165. The kids could not have been more delighted. First they sorted their candies by color, then counted them, wrote the numbers and graphed them. The only problem was the graph only went up to ten, and it turns out the average bag of M&Ms has a lot more than ten of each color. Yes, I gave them each their own bag. Hey, I never said I was brilliant!