Edward loves experiments, he is so inquisitive! So today we created a simple experiment with a tub full of jelly beans, a bowl, a pencil and some paper,

Counting Jelly Beans by Edward.

First we got a tub of jelly beans, we wanted to count how many jelly beans the tub could hold. We counted out 5 jelly beans and put them in a bowl. We estimated how much room they took up. Estimated is big word for guessed.

I estimated that there were 20 beans, Daddy estimated that there were 40 beans and Mummy estimated that there were 50 beans.

We counted out the beans in sets of 5. Each time we counted 5 we made a tally on a piece of paper to record how many sets of 5 we had. We did this until we had counted all the beans.We had ten sets of 5 in the bowl.

10 x 5 = 50. So we had 50 beans! Mummy was correct!