I wanted to present this activity on my ePortfolio to showcase my creativity that I can provide for my students. Not only did this activity engage them, but they also went out of their way to help others, come up with other means of calculations (testing their math theories to see if it worked or not) and I think after this activity, my students and I became closer. 

This activity also demonstrates one of the many TPEs that evaluates my readiness and preparedness to become a teacher, showcasing the creativity built into the state standards that I am capable of teaching.

I decided to create this activity to test out how I might incorporate my own themes and activities mixed with the state standards because I know that I would want to do that in my own classroom. And what I found is that my students responded well and performed well. However, what my mentor teacher and I discussed about doing these types of activities is that the students responded well because it was not an everyday lesson, it was something special. And they performed well because they were prepared with the content. This is something that I will keep in mind when creating and assessing the curriculum my future school has. 

For the activity itself, the numbers on page 2 depended on the number of items that I had. Some of the packages did not accurately depict correct number of items within the package so while I had the numbers figured correctly, when the package arrived with different amount of items, those numbers were not correct. This is something I have to keep in mind when creating activities like this.