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Read to children Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola (Voyager Books). Give pairs of students 10 precut and laminated paper pancakes. Each student in the pair will also need a pencil and piece of writing paper. Invite the pairs of students to measure with pancakes. One student places the number of paper pancakes needed to measure a desk, table, or paintbrush. The other student records the number of pancakes needed to measure each object. When all students have completed measuring, compare and discuss results. Explain why some students' numbers differ.


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05/18/2009