The MUS reps in Washington posted this on their blog and I just had to post it here as well 
Kelly’s 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.
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.
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Cake, not bad! Ours usually end up as guns. Or puppets (http://snippetsandsagas.blogspot.com/2007/12/jack-in-box.html). And that music? Divine. (http://snippetsandsagas.blogspot.com/2007/11/move-over-darlene-zschech.html)
Cake, not bad! Ours usually end up as guns. Or puppets (http://snippetsandsagas.blogspot.com/2007/12/jack-in-box.html). And that music? Divine. (http://snippetsandsagas.blogspot.com/2007/11/move-over-darlene-zschech.html)
My “Math-U-See” Guinea Pig, who was 5 when he started- loves basketball. When he was in the Primer Book he built a basketball court with the blocks! A couple of lego men and small lego ball and he was set for fun!!! He now is in the “Gamma” book and has a better understanding of math than his older siblings, who, regretfully, did not begin with Math-U-See. (But are using them now and learning alot just watching their brother’s DVD segments…”WOW, if I only had learned it THAT way!!”) What a GREAT Math Program!!!
My “Math-U-See” Guinea Pig, who was 5 when he started- loves basketball. When he was in the Primer Book he built a basketball court with the blocks! A couple of lego men and small lego ball and he was set for fun!!! He now is in the “Gamma” book and has a better understanding of math than his older siblings, who, regretfully, did not begin with Math-U-See. (But are using them now and learning alot just watching their brother’s DVD segments…”WOW, if I only had learned it THAT way!!”) What a GREAT Math Program!!!