**Help with projects around the house (measuring)
**Practice estimating......lengths of time, how many seeds are in a pile, etc.
**Sort things..... Find characteristics (attributes) of things and sort accordingly
~~~example help sort groceries into groups (meat, boxes, fruit, etc.)
**Cooking --- Recipes --- work with increase or decreasing amounts to serve more or less people
**Elapsed time --- practice finding the amount of time between two things (started dinner at 5:15 finished cleaning up at 6:10, how much time elapsed?)