Math Fun with Ms Robart
office hours: Monday-Friday 10-11 am and 1-2 pm
christine.robart@gnspes.ca 902-532-3270
office hours: Monday-Friday 10-11 am and 1-2 pm
christine.robart@gnspes.ca 902-532-3270
Gather sticks to make
several bundles of 10 for the TENS place
and several single sticks for the ONES place.
Use your sticks to calculate the sums for these expressions:
Make up your own expressions to solve!
Bees love dandelions!
How many whole flowers do you see?
How many flowers have a bee on them?
If each bee visits 35 flowers, how many flowers will these bees visit? How did you calculate that?
There were 9 bees before this photo was taken. How many flew away?
Go outside and count as many dandelions as you can. How did you count them? Did you count more than 100? Do not disturb the bees!
Two of my digits are odd but my ONES digit is even.
The sum of my digits is 10.
I am between 100 and 150 but I am NOT 136!
Need: 2 players, 4 dice (or the Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of each of the four suits out of a deck of cards), paper and pen for recording, place value game board as shown, Lego pieces-a color for each player
You could play this outside! Just draw the place value board with sidewalk chalk and use chalk colors to claim your place value squares!
Riddle: What is a butterfly's favorite subject at school?
Grade 2: If your pet centipede starts putting on shoes at 3 pm and takes 3 hours, when is the centipede finally done? Bonus: If you and your pet ladybug need shoes too, how many shoes do the 3 of you need in total?
Grade 3: If your pet centipede wears purple, orange, green, red, and blue shoes, and wants the same number of each, how many pairs of each color does it need? Bonus: If instead the centipede wears all blue shoes except every 3rd pair is red, at most how many red pairs can the bug wear?
Need: 2 or more players, deck of cards (Ace to 10), one face card per player
Watch game here: The Jumpy Game
Riddle Answer: Mothematics
A guy thought it would be fun to have a strange pet. So he went to the pet store and bought a talking centipede (100-legged bug), which came in a little white box.
The guy took the box home, found a nice spot for it, and decided he would start off by taking his new pet shopping. He asked the centipede in the box, “Would you like to go to the store with me? We’ll have a great time.”
But there was no answer from his new talking pet.
This bothered him, since the bug was supposed to talk. He waited a minute, then asked again: “How about going to the store with me to shop?”
The guy waited and waited, but again, no answer from the centipede.
Finally the guy put his face right up against the centipede’s house and shouted, “HEY IN THERE!!! Do you want to go out to the store with me?”
A little voice came out of the box: “Chill out, I heard you the first time!! I’m putting on my shoes.”
Hint: Each Emoji is worth a different value.
You need to find the value of each of the Emojis that make each equation true.
Snail = __ Caterpillar = ___ Butterfly = ___
What is the solution to the last equation? ___
Just for Laughs: If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Hint: Each Emoji is worth a different value.
You need to find the value of each of the Emojis that make each equation true.
Daisy = __ Stem = ___ Tulip = ___
What is the solution to the last equation? ___
Using the digits 1 to 9 only one time each, fill in the blanks to make this problem true.
Can you do it more than one way?
My friend, Janine is growing plants for her garden!
These are tiny cucumber seedlings.
How many plants do you see?
How did you count them?
Count on to find out how many plants you would have if all the pots had 2 plants in each.
How many leaves do you see?
Write an addition or multiplication sentence describing the number of leaves.
Need: 2 or more players, deck of cards (Ace to 10), 7 tokens of any kind each, a drawing of a house with 20 squares numbered 1 to 20
Watch the game here: Get Out of My House
Just for Laughs Answer: Glass, all greenhouses are made of glass.
If you want to play the game with me, let me know so I can set up a Google Meet! Who will win?
Here are links for on-line games to practice your money skills:
https://mrnussbaum.com/cash-out-canada
https://www.practicalmoneyskills.ca/games/peterpigs/peterpigs.php
How are a dollar and the moon similar?
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Did you find the total amount of money on each side? If not, do it now!
Which side was easier to add? Why? What strategy did you use to add?
How many quarters are in a dollar? How many nickels equal a quarter?
What coins could you use to make 25¢? Do you know what animal is shown on a quarter?
Hints: They live in Newfoundland Labrador and in Canada’s far north. They are related to reindeer! It is not a moose or a deer.
Need: dice for each player and coins (real, play, or homemade)
Everyone starts at once. Everyone races to make exchanges to get to a loonie:
Roll the dice and take that many pennies. Once you have 5 pennies, make an exchange for a nickel and so on.
Continue to make exchanges until you reach the “Lovely LOONIE”!
Here is a link: Love the Loonie
JUST FOR LAUGHS answer: They both have four quarters!
Did you know that when you bake and cook you are using your math skills?
Last week I made a double batch of "Everything" cookies. My recipe called for 1 egg. How many eggs did I need when I doubled my recipe?
How many eggs do you see?
How did you count them?
How many eggs were there when all the trays were full?
How many did I use?
If there were the same number of brown eggs in each tray, how many were used from the third tray?
How many brown eggs were there in all 5 trays?
Did you notice something different about these egg trays? What is a full carton of eggs usually called?
CLOSE CALL
Answer: DOZENS Answer: DOZENS Need: 2+ players
Deck of cards with 10's, jacks, kings, jokers removed
(Ace = 1, Queen = 0)
*sum means the answer when you add
For younger players, deal 4 cards to each and select 2 cards to get as close to ten as possible, without going over.
To practice subtraction instead, change the rules to subtract 2 numbers to get as close to zero as possible.
If you want help with ANY math please call or email me!
B: Last week I felt brave to sing for you.
G: I found out that getting better at anything takes a lot of time!
L: I am learning how to make a website. I will never be a website designer but that kind of perfection is not my goal.
N: New things, like rewriting songs, or teaching from home are chances for me to learn.
Maria went to the store to buy a loaf of bread.
She had 2 quarters, 4 dimes, 3 nickels, and 2 pennies.
The total cost of the bread was 82¢.
She promised to make sure she had exactly 1 coin remaining after the purchase.
Which coin did she have left after buying the loaf of bread?
Another reminder...here are our Canadian coins. Try to practice the names and match them to their values
Needed:
2 players
deck of cards Ace - 10 (face cards removed)
paper, pencil
random number generator to get numbers between 1 - 20*
*Try searching for a generator on your phone, roll some dice, write numbers on slips of paper and draw numbers from a bowl, or make them up!
*Use higher numbers for more challenge!
**Use multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, or a combination for more challenge!
Riddle: What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment,
but never in one hundred years?
If you want help with ANY math, please contact me.
DICE DIFFERENCE*
needed: 2 dice, paper, pencil, 2+players
Check out Mr. McQueen's website for his video that shows how to play our favorite Shut the Box game at home!
I had to share the spring beauty of these forsythia branches from my friend’s garden!
If you are making a grocery list but do not have a piggy bank, maybe you could draw, label, and cut out some paper coins (as many as you like). Then you have some pretend money to start planning your shopping list!
Here are some pictures to help. Use the amounts with the cent symbols (5¢not the dollars $0.05) as you have not learned about adding with decimals yet.
Remember to practice naming coins to help you connect their values with their names.