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Lots of math concepts can be taught with this candy bar. A hershey s milk chocolate bar is made up of 12 little rectangles that provide perfect opportunity to teach fractions. The cover of the book looks different from the one above but this 2003 publication by the same author also teaches children to multiply and then divide. Hershey s kisses multiplication and division is a nonfiction book for second grade written by jerry pallotta and illustrated by rob bolster in 2003. Students may need interlocking cubes to represent the candy bar pieces in order to break.
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Heres the first segment of hersheys milk chocolate fractions, showing that a whole candy bar is 11 or 1. This is a learning sheet with blank hersheys chocolate bars on it. Hersheys bar math activities free from the curriculum corner fractions. As you read, have each pair of students follow the directions given in the book such as take the wrapper off, break the candy bar into twelve equal sessions, etc.
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