Whole Numbers/Operations

• Look at numbers in magazines, newspapers, books, or on food labels, etc. then practice rounding them to the nearest tens and hundreds.
• Look at images in the grocery store, as your in the car and ask "Where's the Math?"
• Make arrays out of objects (pennies, beans, blocks) and practice counting in groups (1 group of 2, 2 groups of 2, etc.)
• Sort and count pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and find the total.
• Count items by in other denominations than one (2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s.
• Roll two or more dice and then add, subtract, or multiply the numbers.

Fractions

• Look for fractions on food labels in your refrigerator, pantry, kitchen, recipes and see if you can name equivalent fractions for the amount shown.
• Roll number cubes to make fractions. Then represent that fraction visually.
• Identify fractions at meal times. For example, you ate 1/2 of an orange, 3/4 bowl of cereal, 1 whole pizza, and 2/3 of a glass of juice.
• Find fractions in your home and order them from least to greatest.

Measurement

• Come up with a survey question for your family members and friends, record the data with tally marks and create a bar graph or pictograph.
• Create a schedule of your day (wake-up, dinner, going to school, getting home from school, soccer practice, etc.) and practice finding the elapsed time between activities.
• Measure the perimeter and area of the rooms in your home to determine which rooms are the smallest and largest.

Geometry/Shapes

• Identify, describe, and classify different household objects as two or three dimensional figures.
• Go on a shape hunt! Look for shapes in and outside your home. Represent what you find on paper.