Each group can be responsible for one specific step of the recipe. Maria and her cousins decided to eat all 24 tamales in order to find her mothers lost ring. Tell the students that Danny realizes that he is unable to eat 6 tamales. Therefore Dolores, Teresa, and Maria must eat all 24 tamales. Students find the number of tamales each child would have to eat if there were 96 tamales.
Students create their own tamale problems using a different number of people to fair share with.
Extension Students list steps for making tamales, then create a movement for each step in tamale making. Play Mexican music and have students act out steps to the music. Make shapes and divide into parts. Return to Too Many Tamales .