"On Top of Spaghetti"

Show me the number!

 

In my continuous effort to have students extend the counting sequence, I wrote a short story about a little boy who wanted to make spaghetti and had to follow a recipe. The recipe used tens and ones represented by lines and circles to show how much pasta and meatballs he should use. Students were given a number, a plate, pictures of meatballs and dried real pasta. The students then had to figure out how much pasta and meatballs they would need to make their pasta dish!