Week 11

Numeracy - Week 11

(Week 11 printable at the bottom of page)

• Design a flag on a rectangular piece of paper, that represents your family, that is one-third blue and one-quarter yellow and uses at least two other colours. Tell what fraction the other colours are and how you know. Display your fraction flag in a window or on your door.

• Draw two pictures to show that 5x8 = 5x5 + 5x3

• Your friend came to your home at 11:00 and left after 16:00 the same day. Use both a 12-hour clock and a 24-hour clock to tell what time your friend left. How long could he or she have been at your home?

• Create a growing number pattern and a shrinking number pattern that have the same 20th term. Explain how you know they have the same 20th term.

• Use words and phrases such as likely, unlikely, less likely, more likely or equally likely to describe the probability of drawing certain cards from a deck of cards. Explain your answers.

• Example: I am equally likely to draw a black card as draw a red card as there are two suits of each. It is unlikely that I will draw an ace as there are only 4 in the whole deck.

• Word Fractions Game

  • Choose a word category such as food, animals, family members or sports and write as many words as you can think of related to that category on small pieces of paper. Only put one word on each piece of paper. Place the papers in a small bowl, bag or basket. On separate pieces of paper write the probability statements from the table below and place those is a separate bag, bowl or basket. These will be the probability cards.

  • What is the probability of:

  • Choosing a vowel

  • Choosing a letter with only straight lines

  • Choosing a consonant

  • Choosing a letter with only curved lines

  • Choosing a letter that comes before M in the alphabet

  • Choosing a letter that is also in your name

  • Choosing a letter that comes after T in the alphabet

  • Choosing a letter that is between C and P in the alphabet

Instructions:

• • • Each player chooses a card from the word category basket. Imagine that all the letters in the word were cut out and placed in a paper bag and only one letter could be pulled out at a time. Choose a probability card. Each player determines the probability of that event happening in their word and expresses the probability as a fraction.

    • Scoring Guide:

      • 2 points if the probability of the event is ½ or more

      • 1 point if the probability of the event is greater than ¼, but less than ½

      • 0 points if the probability of the event is ¼ or less

      • The first player to score 10 points wins.

    • Example:

    • Ainslie chooses the word: soccer. Ravi chooses the word: basketball. The probability card they choose is: probability of choosing a vowel The probability of Ainslie choosing a vowel is 2/6 which is between ¼ and ½ so she would score 1 point. The probability of Ravi choosing a vowel is 3/10, which is also between ¼ and ½ so he would also score 1 point.

• Week 11 Numeracy Printable