In Room 18, we like to learn math in many different ways. Every month we make quilts to study and observe patterns.

All year long we study estimation, and since our teacher knows that we love to eat, we use foods to do our estimating. We have used animal crackers, peanuts, and oyster crackers to help us learn this skill. Here's our oyster cracker jar and our estimates.

Each time we eat some crackers, we calculate how many crackers we will use if we all eat 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 apiece. (We want to try 10 apiece because it is so easy and we are always hungry, but our teacher says no.)

Some have real money.
	Some have alphabet or number stamps
Some even have things to weigh or measure.
Some have things to classify and make patterns with.