Mary thinks she is very ordinary. While walking home from school, she comes across blueberries. She picks them and secretly leaves them on a neighbors porch. The neighbore makes blueberry muffins and secretly leaves them for five people. Those five people do nice things for five other people. This creates a web of kindness that repeats and repeats.
As I read this book my mathminded brain was calculating the whole way. I was designed a diagram that branched out over and over. What a fun math integration for the kids! The funny part was, the author had done this already when I turned the final page. Save that one for after the math activity and the students will be surprised that Ordinary Mary, just by secretly giving a bowl of blueberries, indirectly started achain over events that led to over six BILLION acts of kindness.
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