Week 5

Numeracy - Week 5

(week 5 printable at bottom of page)

*** 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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  • Each player makes a chart using the place values below to record their number (decimals optional, but encouraged !)

Thousands Hundreds Tens Ones . Tenths Hundredths Thousandths

  • Place a deck of cards (with the face cards and 10’s removed) face down in the middle of the playing area. Ace = 1

Player 1 draws a card from the deck and places it face up. All players must write this digit down on their place-value game board. Players may choose any place value position on their board. Players draw five or more cards, one at a time, and fill in their boards; they choose what they believe to be the best possible place-value position for each digit. Once players write a digit on their chart, that digit cannot be erased.

At the end of the round, the player with the largest number earns 10 points. The first player to 100 points wins!

  • Estimate the amount of water you drink in a day.

What size of container could hold this amount? Explain your estimate.

  • Draw three separate clock faces. Draw the clocks so that the hands on the first one makes a straight angle, the hands on the second one make a right angle and the hands on the third one create an acute angle. What time is each clock showing? How could you prove that the hands on clock two form a right angle if you don’t have a protractor?

  • Pick a number from 10-20. If you flipped a pair of coins that many times, predict how many times you would get the following results: 1) 2 heads, 2) 2 tails or 3) 1 head and 1 tail. Test your prediction by flipping a pair of coins the number of times that you chose and record your results. Explain why your results were close to or different than what you predicted.

  • Angles Game:

Player 1 holds ten straws, toothpicks or pencils, with the bottom of the items touching the table-top. When player 1 opens his/her hand, the straws fall to create angles. Each straight angle (180°) is worth one point; obtuse angles (more than 90°) and acute angles (less than 90°) are both worth two points; and right

angles (90°) are worth three points. Players take turns and record their scores for each round. The first player to gain 20 points wins the game. The straws must be touching to form an angle – close doesn’t count!

  • When you put something in water, the water level rises. What could you put in a glass of water to make the water level rise just a little? What could you put in it to make the water level rise a lot?

  • Equality Puzzle:

What is the value of 💙 ? 😊 = 3

💙 + 💙 + 😊 = 😊 + 😊 + 😊 + 😊 + 😊

Create your own equality puzzle for a family member to solve.

  • Imagine that you are going out for ice cream. You have to choose between four flavours of ice cream that you like equally. Can you design a way to help you decide which flavour to choose that is fair to all flavours? What could you do to help you choose?