Curious Minds Busy Bag 24 Cute Holiday Candy Christmas Food Mini Toys Figures Replicas - Math Counters Sorting Alphabet Objects Playset

24 Food Figures - Mini Dairy Characters. Size - 1 inch. Includes: Peppermint, Gumdrop, Cookie, Hot Chocolate, Cake, Cupcake. There are 4 other mini food character sets available. These cute little toy figures are adorable little Christmas holiday snack foods. Great for pretend play, sorting, or using as math counters. Perfect size to use as alphabet object miniatures. These are also perfect for early math because they are great for patterning and counting. Learn math by counting, adding, subtracting, making patterns, comparing numbers, and more. Math manipulatives (counters) are small objects that children can count and move around to help solve simple math problems. For example, the addition problem 3+2=? Have students make groups of 3 foods and 2 different foods. Then push them together and count the total. Can be used as a hands-on way to teach basic story problems. For example, if Susie had 7 less food than Chad had 10, how much did Susie have? Pattern. You can use counters to make simple patterns like AB, ABC, ABBC, etc.