Can you make a dollar with 50 coins. What coins did you use? How many of each?

Read Fraction Fun by David Adler. Which is larger, 2/3 or 3/4? How do you know?

Survey 20 friends or

relatives to find out their favorite outdoor activity. Graph the results.

Visit the website

www.funbrain.com

and play some math games.

Write a word problem whose answer is 45. Can you think of one that

involves more than one operation (+,-,x,÷)?

Make the largest and

smallest numbers you can using the digits 4, 1, 7, 8,

and 2. Find their difference and sum.

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Write the names and

prices of 5 cars you find in the newspaper. Order the prices from least to greatest. Round each price to the nearest thousand.

Go on a geometry

hunt. Can you find

acute, obtuse, and

right angles? Parallel and perpendicular line segments? What else can you find?

Write the numbers

below in expanded

form. Example:

12,583=10,000+2,000+500+80+3

a. 10,729 b. 52,846 c. 35,295

Play a strategy game like Othello or Checkers. Did

your strategy work? Will you try a different strategy next time?

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Read Lemonade for Sale by Stuart Murphy. Make a

graph, by days of the week of the number of dogs you see each day this week.

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Is there a street parallel to your street? Look on a

map and find two streets that are parallel and two

streets that are

perpendicular to each other.

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Make a paper airplane and fly it. Measure how far it goes. Try a few

times. Make a table to record your distances.

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Find the area of your bedroom floor (measure length and width as if it were a rectangle, ignore

odd shapes). Is there a room in your house that could have half the area? Twice the area?

Using sidewalk chalk, write as many math facts as you can in three minutes.

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Write a word problem whose answer is 154. Can you make one that uses more than one operation (+,-,x,÷)?

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Read A Grain of Sand by Helena Pittman. Calculate

how many grains of rice she will receive on day 18. How many will she have altogether?

Find a graph in the

newspaper or online. Write three true statements about the graph.

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Vowels are worth $50 each, consonants are worth $40. Can you make a word worth

exactly $200? $600?

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Measure the perimeter of two different windows in

your house (preferably

different sizes). Find the difference between the perimeters.

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Roll 2 dice and multiply to find the product. Record

the product. Do this 25 times. Create a bar graph showing the results. What do you notice?

Write your first and last name. What fraction of the letters are consonants? What fraction are vowels? Write two equivalent fractions for each fraction.

Use the cards Ace through 9 (Ace is one). Pick five and make the biggest number you can. Pick five more and make the biggest number you can. Which is more? Write an equation for each comparison. Example: 6,421>2,368

Write multiplication and

division equations for 6,

7, and 42. Write a word

problem to go with each

equation

Write the following numbers:

a. 10,027 b.41,538 c. 62,722

Circle the digit in the thousands place and draw a line under the

digit in the tens place.

Read Math for All

Seasons by Greg Tang. Make up your own math riddle.

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Stacy’s coach told her she should drink 4 gallons of water every week. How many 8 ounce glasses of water should she drink each week? (Hint: 1 gallon = 128 oz)

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Play Multiplication Compare. Use the cards Ace through 9 (Ace is 1). Pass out all cards evenly. Each player turns over two cards and multiplies them together. The player with the larger product takes the cards. If the products are the same, flip two more cards. The player with the higher product keeps all four cards. The player with the most cards wins.

Do a KENKEN puzzle at

http://

www.kenkenpuzzle.com/

#

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Go on a 3-D scavenger hunt. How many cylinders, pyramids, cubes, rectangular prisms and cones can you find? Organize your data in a table or graph.

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Look for numbers with decimals to the hundredths. Can you find one with each digit 0-9 in the tenths place?

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Count forward by 3⁄4 until you get to 9. Write down all the numbers you say. What patterns do you

notice?

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Fill a sandwich bag with cereal. Estimate how many pieces are in the bag. Count to see how many there are. Find the difference between your estimate and the actual number. Round the number to the nearest ten or hundred.

Fill in the missing

numbers:

a. 11.48, ___, 11.50

b. 32.71, ___, 32.73

c. 53.24, 53.34, ___

d. ___, 24.65, 24.75

e. ___, 85.31, 86.31

How many months old are you? How many days old are you? (Remember to count leap years.)

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Count from 15,550 to 15,650.

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Use a magazine to find three pictures that have at least one line of symmetry.

Play a game on

gregtangmath.com

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Estimate how long it

will take you to read

20 pages. Try it!

Were you close?

Count up by tens starting at 344...; starting at 987. Now count back by tens.

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