math and M&M's

I got desperate yesterday.  Beyond desperate.  I am not above bribes and I am not above letting my kids eat a few M&M's here and there but yesterday I took it to the extreme.  I let them eat TONS of M&M's as long as they were doing "math sentences" with them.  Av just refuses to do any school work this summer.  It has been super tough and a battle that has really sucked.  BAD.  So anyway yesterday at Target I bought a big bag of them and told them as long as they did math they could eat.  We took C along for the ride of course.  Little sister was not going to be left out.  I was lucky I was able to leave E out.  So here they are working and eating and eating and eating.  Av has since offered to do math 2 days in a row.  hehehehhe As long as it involves M&M's she says.