Skittles Riddles Math by Barbara Barbieri McGrath

Grade Levels

1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

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Related Academic Standards

Represent and interpret data using tally charts, tables, pictographs, line plots, and bar graphs.

Complete a scaled pictograph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories (scales limited to 1, 2, 5, and 10).

M03.D-M.2.1.2 M03.D-M.2.1.2

Solve one- and two-step problems using information to interpret data presented in scaled pictographs and scaled bar graphs (scales limited to 1, 2, 5, and 10). Example 1: (One-step) “Which category is the largest?” Example 2: (Two-step) “How many more are in category A than in category B?”

M03.D-M.2.1.3 M03.D-M.2.1.3

Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Display the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked in appropriate units—whole numbers, halves, or quarters.

M03.D-M.2.1.4 M03.D-M.2.1.4

Translate information from one type of display to another. Limit to pictographs, tally charts, bar graphs, and tables. Example: Convert a tally chart to a bar graph.

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Literature Extension

Read the book to your class following a basic lesson on addition, subtraction, negative numbers, fractions, or pie graphs. Give the students a bag of skittles and have them open it and complete the math problems in the book as you read it.

Description

This book introduces such concepts as "greater than," "less than," addition, subtraction, negative numbers, fractions, and pie graphs. Each concept is illustrated with bright, shiny candies. This literature is appropriate for grade levels 1 - 3.

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Skittles Riddles Math by Barbara Barbieri McGrath