Pretzel and Nut Bark Recipe

Monday, 15 December 2008, 11:10 | Category : Christmas, Recipes
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Here’s one of my favorite and super-easy Christmas sweets.

Pretzel and Nut Bark
3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup thin pretzels broken into small chunks
2/4 cup salted nuts of any kind (I use mixed nuts)
1/3 cup white chocolate chips or almond bark
2 Tablespoons (more or less) of Christmas colored sprinkles (any style)
Line 13×9″ pan with foil so [...]

Living Math – Graphs Galore

Monday, 10 November 2008, 20:22 | Category : Graphing, Living Math, Nature Study
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October/November = lots of falling leaves and lots of candy.  What better to do with both of those things?  Math, of course!  )
Whether you have extra M&M’s, Skittles, Smarties, Runts, or just a big bunch of assorted candy bars, take a few minutes to turn those sweets into more than cavities.  Even little bitty [...]

M & M Math Activities and Links

Monday, 15 October 2007, 17:21 | Category : Graphing
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Talk about a fun week of math learning!  Here are a couple of the activities my children did during our week of m&m math fun.  Overall, we covered estimation, sorting, counting, adding, word problems, pictographs, bar graphs, comparison graphs, pie graphs, graphs made in a spreadsheet program, fractions, fair shares (division), mean/median/mode, decimals and percentages.  I’d [...]