Young guests will enjoy creating coral reefs out of Cheetos and Cheese Whiz, or making octopi out of marshmallows and
peeled licorice sticks.
Wang described the impact of the next inevitable great quake on a host of schools in the state that were built of unreinforced masonry before the danger was recognized: «They'll snap like candy canes instead of bending
like licorice sticks.»
I had bone pain — it felt like someone was twisting my fibula like it was
a licorice stick.
The licorice sticks will always appear in the second column (the tens column) on their math charts.
But they can «trade» ten marshmallows for
a licorice stick.
Eventually, as students learn to add to numbers greater than 99, introduce a pretzel or a carrot stick to represent ten
licorice sticks.
Students use marshmallows and
licorice sticks to help students understand the concepts of tens and ones.
Introduce the idea that
a licorice stick is the same value as ten marshmallows; ten marshmallows could be «traded» for one licorice stick.
Now introduce
a licorice stick for counting numbers or sums greater than 10.
For example,
a licorice stick and four marshmallows represents the number 14.