Week 1

*** Please understand that you are not expected to complete all of these activities ***

It is suggested that you try to complete 4 - 6 activities per week. Of course, you are welcome to complete more if you wish :)

I have included many options to give you a variety of ideas to choose from.

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• If you ate 1/3 of the birthday cake and your friend ate 1/4 of the same birthday cake, who ate more? Use a model to explain your answer.

• Find a recipe you would like to make with a family member. Re-write the recipe and double the ingredients. How many people does your recipe serve? Which measurement was the hardest to double? Maybe check the weekly recipe posted on the main page from the Hillcrest Cookbook :)

• Have a scavenger hunt for real-world examples of right angles (e.g. the corner of a book), less than right angles and more than right angles.

• How many different ways can you make $3.25? If you only use quarters how many would you need? If you only use nickels how many would you need?

• Roll 2 dice and multiply to find the product. Record the products. Do this 25 times. Think about how you could create a bar graph with the results. What do you notice?

• Find 4 numbers larger than 1,000 in a newspaper, magazine or book. Put them in order from least to greatest. What is the difference between the smallest and the largest?

• Write a schedule for tomorrow that includes the hours and minutes of your activities. Include an activity that lasts less than 15 minutes, one that lasts 45 minutes and one that lasts more than an hour.

• Candy is 4 bags for $1.84 at the store. Is this a better price than $.45 each? How do you know? Use mental math.

• 20 ÷ 4, 24 ÷ 4, 28 ÷ 4, 32 ÷ 4 What’s your strategy? What are the related facts? What do you notice? Create another set using a different multiple.

• Somebody married on this date in 1983 will be celebrating which anniversary today?

• Vowels are worth $50 each, consonants are worth $40. Can you make a word worth exactly $200? $600?

• Watch a digital clock. Add up the digits. At what time is the sum the greatest?

• Place a plastic bowl on the floor and stand 20 steps away. Toss a coin in the bowl and record how many times it lands inside it. Express this as a fraction. Repeat.

• Have a scavenger hunt for real-world examples of parallel lines (e.g. railroad tracks) inside and outside your home.