Earlier this year, Joanna sent me a link to a page that explains how to construct a mathematically correct breakfast. With careful cutting, one can turn a bagel into two linked bagel halves!
The activity as described involves drawing on a bagel with a permanent marker. Unfortunately, if you do that you can't eat the bagel. I figured that by now there must be such a thing as edible markers, so I went hunting online and found some. With the aid of food markers, last Thursday we set about bagel-ing.
Most of the kids *almost* got it to work, but had one half that was just a little too thin and broke. We'll try this activity again later in the semester.
The quote of the day, possibly of the year, was from Alec: "The only thing better than food is math that is food."
Step 1: Meet the bagels, and decide which side is the "front."
Step 2: Draw on the bagels.
Step 3: Cut the bagels.
Ta-da!
(This one is mine:)
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