Sample activities include:
- Write letters to a summer-math pen pal
- Create a coordinate grid using sidewalk chalk, then complete a table and mark the ordered pairs using rocks
- Go to an area park and measure the equipment, roll dice down the slide and use the results to answer questions about fractions, swing through your multiplication and division facts
- Go to a library and read math-related literature and ask a librarian how they use math
- Practice rounding numbers and reading 6-digit numbers found on the spines of library books
- Use water balloons to compare equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents, see how many of your multiples you can say while tossing a water balloon in the air
- Make homemade playdough and use it to explore 3-dimensional figures, volume, and fractions
- Create models of equivalent fractions using sidewalk chalk drawings
- Create a timeline based on historical events related to the United States postal service
- Visit a Catholic church to explore pattern, symmetry and its place in a sacred space
- Make lemonade and explore volume, counting money, and tithing by setting up a lemonade stand
- Use Styrofoam cups to explore place value
- Make a timeline based on events about the rosary
- Play a board game with a Math Mentor and journal about the math you used while playing
- Daily Flashcard Motivation Page
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