How Many Fit?

We read the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and then we decided to see how many cubes fit in our shoe.  First the students made an estimate, then they filled their shoes with cubes.  Students then counted their cubes one by one to see how many fit!  Once everyone finished their counting the students had a great discussion on who had the most and why and who had the least.   The students even had great thoughts about students who had wide opening on their shoes like dress shoes and those with narrow openings like hiking boots.  We finished the activity thinking about changing the object to small cap erasers and how would that impact the number of objects that fit in our shoe.  Ask your child how many cubes fit in their shoe.