Math Tools for Gift Baskets
Wine gift baskets aren’t exactly the first place to find much math, but in the proces of putting together a few for my friends and family this Christmas, I found it an enjoyable way to teach some basic math to my toddler.
First, we had to find some generic costs for shipping. Luckily, the Fedex website gave us a good idea about the cost of shipping wine and our baskets to our family in New York City.
Secondly, we had to add up everything we wanted to include to not only check the price, but to also get some idea about sizes, since our box was only going to hold so many items.
Lastly, we had to add up the size of the basket, along with packaging supplies in order to get some idea about the size of a box that we needed.
While I realize, that we usually talk about much, much more complicated math on this site, I thought it might be interesting to see what affect doing some math calculations like this could have with my toddler. He seemed to not only enjoy it, but now seems to be more interested in counting things as well, so it is clearly a huge “win”
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