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Lindy put 12 buttons into an egg carton. She had equal
numbers of blue and pink buttons. She had twice as
many purple buttons as blue ones. How many buttons
of each color did Lindy have?
Bill wanted to go fishing, but first he dug worms.
When he counted his worms, he found that he had an
even number of worms.
The number was between 12 and 30 worms.
When he counted by 2s, he said the number.
When he counted by 3s, he said the number.
When he counted by 4s, he said the number.
How many worms did Bill find?
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Seeing Math
Investigations
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Lets Write
$ $ $ $
The pet store sells fish. The prices of the
different fish are:
70 50 5 25 30 20
If you have $1 which fish could you buy?
Show at least 3 different ways to spend $1.
What Do You Think?
(1.05)
(1.05)
(1.05)
(1.04a)
(3.02)
Mrs. Browns class has a large fish tank. The
children can put 100 fish in the tank. Juan put
24 fish in and Kaitlin put in 19 fish. How many
fish do they need to fill the tank?
Show how you solved the problem in words,
pictures or numbers.
Write a story about
125 and 75.
Look at one of the shapes your teacher
gave you. Does it have symmetry? How do
you know. Cut the shape along the line of
symmetry. What are the new shapes? Do they
have symmetry? How do you know?
Look at the other shape. Ask the same
questions.
If a shape does not have symmetry, can you cut
it into two parts so one part is symmetric?
Patterns, Patterns, Patterns
(5.01)
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+2 +2 +2 +2 +2
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Number of Players: Two to four
Materials: Two counters of one color for each player, two dice, gameboard
Directions: Each player rolls one die. The player with the highest number places a counter
on the car of his/her choice. Moving around the group in a clockwise direction, each player
places a counter on a car. Continue taking turns until each player places a counter on a second
car. A car may have only one counter. Players roll the dice in turn. After each roll, the
counter on the car whose number is the sum of the dice is moved ahead one lap. The winner
is the first player to have both cars finish the final lap.
STOCK CAR DERBY
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Final
(4.02)
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Keeping Skills Sharp
Solve this!
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1. 30 - ____ = 10 2. 60 + ___ = 90
3. 86 - 42 = ____ 4. 134 - 22 = _____
5. 0 10 20 30 What is the next
+8 +8 + 8 +8 problem?
8 18 28 38
6. What shape is this?
7. 7 tens + 3 hundreds + 1 ten + 8 ones = ________
8. Juan had some marbles. Sue had 120 marbles and Miguel had 97
marbles. If there were 295 marbles in all, how many did Juan
have?
Decide how to share seven candy bars equally with four children.
Show how you solved the problem.
(1.02d)
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Mental Math Keeping Skills Sharp
Directions to Students: Number your paper from
1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
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Seeing Mathematics:
Give each student a square and a triangle cut from stiff paper or tagboard. Squares should vary in
size and triangles in size and type i.e. equilateral, isosceles, right. Before students cut their shapes
discuss symmetry and congruence.
What Do You Think?
There are many strategies that can be used to solve the problem. Although subtraction with
regrouping could be used, it is not a strategy you should expect a second grader to use.
Solve This:
Some children may want to cut seven candy bars out of paper and then experiment with ways to cut
them. Children should talk about and record the fractions.
1. 1.2 hundreds and 3 ones 6. 200 + 40 + 5
2. 3 hundreds, 6 tens, 4 ones 7. 300 + 60 + 2
3. 7 hundreds, 8 tens, 2 ones 8. 500 + 50 + 5
4. 9 hundreds, 6 tens 9. 600 + 10 + 9
5, 5 hundreds and 2 ones 10. 400 + 30 + 8
20 40 + 8 = 48
30
44 388
112 78
parallelogram
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Seeing Math
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Lets Write
Make a list of all the shapes you
see on the playground. How many
different shapes can you find?
What Do You Think?
Patterns, Patterns, Patterns
Draw the next shape. What is the rule?
(5.01)
(3.01)
(3.02, 1.02a)
Lynn had only quarters, dimes and nickels
to buy her lunch. He spent all of his money.
Could he have spent 197?
Explain how you know.
(1.01a)
Use a small lump of clay.
Shape it into a cylinder.
Cut the cylinder in half.
What shapes do you have now?
Do they have symmetry?
Are they congruent?
Jordan is saving money to buy a
pet. He put 226 pennies in a jar. His
mom gave him 113 penniesshe found
today. The jar fell over and 56 pennies
fell out.
How many pennies are in the jar now?
How do you know?
(1.05)
$ $ $ $
My younger brother wanted a new eraser
costing 25, so he emptied out his piggybank
and got the money he needed. He had just
enough to pay for the eraser, even though he
had 12 coins.
How many pennies, nickels, and dimes did
he have?
(1.01a)
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Magic Triangle
GAME 1: Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the circles, so that the sum of the numbers on each
side of the triangle is 20. Start with the 8 in the lower right corner circle.
GAME 2: Start with the 3 in the lower left corner circle.
GAME 3: Start with the 6 in the lower right corner.
GAME 4: Put the 1 in the lower left corner.
Variations: What other sums could you get using the numbers 1 to 9?
(1.05)
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Keeping Skills Sharp
Solve this!
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1. 38 2. 387
+24 +203
3. 756 4. 184
- 342 - 94
5. 32 42 52 62 What is the next
+1 +2 +3 +4 problem?
6. Measure the length of this paper from top to bottom.
It is ______ inches long.
7. 386 + 100 = _____
8. Kyle ate 18 cookies. His big brother ate twice as many.
How many cookies did his brother eat?
How many different ways can 18 objects be divided into groups of equal sizes?
Show your answers in words, numbers and pictures.
(1.05, 1.02a)
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Mental Math Keeping Skills Sharp
Directions to Students: Number your paper from
1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
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Game of the Week:
Magic Triangle
Students can use number tiles (1-9) (Blackline Masters) to place in the circles. Using the tiles is
much less frustrating than writing numbers in the circles and then erasing when the answer is
wrong. If number tiles are not available students could write the numbers (1-9) on small pieces
of paper and move them as they solve the magic triangle.
Solve This:
Provide students with objects (unifix cubes, pennies, paper clips, etc.) to work with.
Answers are: 2 groups of 9
9 groups of 2
3 groups of 6
6 groups of 3
18 groups of 1
1 group of 18
Children can explore this concept with other numbers.
Write the sum or difference.
1. 4 hundreds + 10 6. 30 + 100 + 1
2. 3 hundreds + 7 tens 7. 86 + 100 + 2
+ 3 ones
3. 7 hundreds + 2 ones 8. 90 + 10 + 10 + 1
4. 600 + 200 + 1 9. 500 + 30 + 8
5. 3 tens + 3 hundreds 10. 200 + 40 + 5
62 72 + 5
590 11 inches
414 486
90 36
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Seeing Math
If you fold a piece of paper in half,
you have ____ sections. Fold it in half again.
Now you have ____ sections. Continue folding
it in half and count the sections. Do you see a
pattern? Make a chart.
Folds Sections
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Lets Write
Write a story about
eleven birds who
live in three
birdhouses.
$ $ $ $
Tom earns 25 on Sunday, 50 on Monday,
75 on Tuesday. If this pattern continues,
how much money would he earn in seven
days?
What Do You Think?
Patterns, Patterns, Patterns
Whats the rule?
(1.01c)
(5.01)
(5.01)
(1.02, 1.05)
(5.01)
Have students write their names on graph
paper (one letter per square). Make a
prediction of which number of letters will
occur the most in the classroom. Then put
the names on large paper to make a class
graph. Discuss the range, and see if students
predictions were correct.
Extension: Compare other classrooms and
find the number that occurs most in the
school.
(4.02)
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+2 +2 +2 +2 +2
Arthur bought a pizza and cut it into
four equal parts. Sue ate one fourth of
the pizza. Carol looked at what was left
and ate one-third. Then George came
along and ate half of what he saw. How
much pizza is left for Arthur?
Who ate the most pizza?
How do you know?
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Race To 100
hundred tens ones
(1.01f )
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Rules for Race to 100
1. Each player has a game board.
2. 2-4 people can play
3. Use base 10 blocks, coins or unifix cubes as counters.
4. Spin twice and add the numbers. Take that number of blocks and place them on your
game board. Trade in for tens when you can.
5. The first player to get to 100 (or more) is the winner.
(Use a paper clip and pencil to make the spinner.)
(1.01f)
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Additional spinners for Race to 100.
0 1
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7 4
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0 1
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Keeping Skills Sharp
Solve this!
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1. 846 2. 18
- 324 -8
3. 14 4. 17
- 6 - 9
5. 309, 306, 303, ____, ____
6. It is 3:15. What time will it be in 1 hour?
7. 3 hundreds + 18 ones + 2 tens
8. Talia drove 48 miles on Wednesday and 36 miles
on Thursday. How many more miles did she drive on Wednesday
than Thursday?
Benny and Maria have a dart board.
With three darts, what scores can they get?
How many different scores are possible?
How do you know?
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Mental Math Keeping Skills Sharp
Directions to Students: Number your paper from
1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
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Investigations:
Provide graph paper to the students. Instead of using the catsup questions, students may create
their own question to investigate.
What Do You Think?
This can be solved by modeling the situation and removing the pieces at each stage of the
problem.
Mental Math:
After completing the mental math listed below, have the students do similar problems but in the
hundreds.
Example: 183 + 3 114 + 2 227 + 1
Write the sum:
1. 83 + 3 6. 48 - 2
2. 14 + 2 7. 37 - 2
3. 27 + 1 8. 98 - 1
4. 75 + 3 9. 64 - 2
5. 42 + 4 10. 79 - 1
522 300, 297
10 4:15
8 338
8 12 miles
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Seeing Math
How many small triangles are in
this large triangle?
Watch for all sizes!
Investigations
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Lets Write
$ $ $ $
Kyle has 52. He wants to buy a 75 pencil.
How much more money does he need?
What coins could he have that equal 52?
What Do You Think?
Mrs. Mouse cut fruit for the family feast.
She cut each apple into four pieces.
She cut each banana into two pieces.
Mrs. Bear carefully placed 12 pieces of
fruit on the plate. How many apple
pieces and how many banana pieces
could be on the plate? Does this
problem have more than one answer?
Record your answers.
Patterns, Patterns, Patterns
312, 306, 299, 291, 282, 272, _____
What is the rule?
(1.04)
(1.04a)
(1.05)
(5.01)
Write a letter to a first grader explaining
what they will learn in math in the
second grade.
(3.01)
Children need opportunities to see
information organized in a variety of ways.
Have children complete a survey by deciding
on a question, collecting the information and
displaying that information in different ways
(ex. Venn diagram, tallies, line plot, pictorial
graph, concrete graph, if, then graph, etc.).
Sometimes finding an interesting question is
the hardest part!
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Design A Game
Directions: Its time to create a math game to play with a friend. As you plan your game, think
about:
1. How will the game board look? You might want to sketch it on notebook paper before
you begin the board.
2. Will it need dice, markers, cards?
3. What will the directions say?
4. How will you make it attractive so classmates will want to play?
Helpful Hints:
1. You may need a ruler to help draw lines.
2. Be neat.
3. Think about the math in your game. What math does it use? How will it help your friend
be better in math?
(1.05)
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Keeping Skills Sharp
Solve this!
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1. 43 + 76 = ___ 2. 180 + 20 = ____
3. 75 - 42 = ___ 4. 13 - 6 = ____
5. $1.50, $1.25, $1.00, _____
6. What time is it?
7.
8. Jack saw 14 cows and 10 birds. How many legs did he see?
There are 20 people who need to ride to the zoo. There are eight cars.
The cars can carry four, three, or two people.
Show and explain with words, pictures and numbers how the people could ride to
the zoo.
Show at least two different solutions.
(1.05)
= ________
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Mental Math Keeping Skills Sharp
Directions to Students: Number your paper from
1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
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Game of the Week:
This activity allows students to write, design, measure, problem solve and practice a math skill.
It may be helpful to model making a game. Let the class design a game with you. Help clarify
their thinking by asking questions.
Materials:
Materials that might be needed are: large paper (12 x 18), markers, crayons, rulers, dice, game
markers, spinners, etc. After finishing the games, have the students play the games.
Investigations:
Provide graph paper, Venn diagrams if appropriate.
Assessment:
This is a wonderful time for student-led conferences. Invite parents, grandparents, friends, etc.
in for an opportunity for your children to show off what they have learned this year. Parents
and children will love this time of sharing.
Solve This:
Possible answers:
1. 1 car with four people, 2 cars with three people, 5 cars with two people
2. 4 cars with three people and 4 cars with two people
3. 2 cars with four people and 6 cars with two people
Seeing Mathematics:
Hint to teacher: There are at least 32 triangles. Challenge your students to find more.
Write the sum or difference:
1. 70 - 15 6. 30 + 22
2. 42 - 12 7-. 78 + 2
3. 65 -10 8. 96 + 10
4. 86 - 10 9. 88 + 20
5. 100 - 15 10. 43 + 17
119 75
200 7:10
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Mental Math Keeping Skills Sharp
Directions to Students: Number your paper from
1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.