Many foods eaten all over the world today were first grown by Native peoples of the Americas. Corn, squash and chili peppers were first grown in Mexico thousands of years ago; potatoes come from the Andes of South America, where Quechua and other Andean peoples still grow hundreds of kinds; peanuts and cacao (the bean chocolate is made from) also come from South America. In the Great Lakes, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) families still gather wild rice from lakes by canoe in late summer, and cranberries and sunflowers are North American plants too. The places on these pages come from Smithsonian, university and tribal sources.
Five pages of 1st and 2nd grade math with foods first grown in the Americas. Page 1 shows where nine foods were first grown, then a harvest table: students count each food and add the three foods from each place. Page 2 is a picture graph of a class's favorite foods with six questions. Page 3 adds two baskets within 20. Page 4 lines up two rows: circle the row with more and write the subtraction. Page 5 has six word problems within 100. The first problem on each page is a worked example.
Start with page 1's three boxes: ask which foods the class has eaten this week, and where each was first grown. Crossing off each picture on the harvest table as it is counted keeps the counts right.
Look in the kitchen for foods from these pages (corn, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, peanuts, chocolate) and sort them by where they were first grown.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Counting, adding and subtracting with corn, potatoes, chili peppers, wild rice and other foods first grown or gathered by Native peoples of the Americas. Students count a harvest table by where each food comes from, read a picture graph, add baskets, compare rows and solve word problems.
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