ACTIVITY: Bring potatoes and sweet potatoes.
- Younger students separate the sweet potatoes from the potatoes then arrange them according to size and count them.
- How are the two vegetables similar and different? Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast.
- Older students estimate which weighs more, the sweet potatoes or potatoes, then weigh them, using standard and nonstandard measuring tools.
- Use the potatoes to construct addition and subtraction facts and to write addition and subtraction number sentences.
- Use potatoes to measure perimeter and area of students' desks or a work table.
- Go to the library to research the Irish potato famine.