Mummies and Math

Today we began by discussing our SweetTart data. We gathered information about how many hearts were in each bag. We also began a discussion of most likely and least likely. Since most of the individual bags had 6 hearts in each, it was most likely that if we opened another bag, there would be 6 hearts in the bag.

Then we moved on to mummies. We became the ancient embalmers and performed the mummification tasks on stuffed animals. We began by making an incision and removing the "lungs, stomach, liver and intestines." Then we rubbed the body with "oils and perfumes." After covering the body with natron (salt, Na) and letting it sit for "40 days" we began wrapping the bodies in linen.

The kids had a ball and will never forget this day!