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Math - Elementary Learning Opportunities

Here are activities from Math in Practice that parents can complete with their children. These activities can be

completed multiple times to provide children with extra practice. These resources need to be printed out to be of best use. Some

resources are also in Spanish.

Math in Practice

Here is a resource that is appropriate for all grade levels. It contains quick activities to get students talking about math. You could

complete one each day.

Math Before Bed

Here is a resource that is appropriate for multiple grade levels. It contains three different mathematics activity categories for students

to choose from.

SolveMe Puzzles

Here is a resource that is appropriate for multiple grade levels. There are many different activities students could complete.

You Cubed

This is a great website to start conversations with students about math. Which One Doesn’t Belong?

This is a resource that is appropriate for multiple grade levels. They are open-ended problems that get students thinking about math.

Open Middle Resources

Kindergarten

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Week 9 Download Packet Download Spanish Packet

★ If you have access to technology, complete 5-10 lessons on DreamBox each week. ★ Have your child practice the calendar every day. Have them state the date, what day of the week it is,

what day of the week was yesterday/tomorrow. ★ Have your child practice counting to at least 100 by ones and tens. ★ Have your child practice counting on from any number.

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★ Have your child practice writing numbers from 0 to 20. ★ Violet has picked 6 flowers. She went to her friend’s house and picked more. If she now has 10

flowers, how many did she pick at her friend’s house? ★ Jazmin picked four apples from a tree. She needed 10 apples in all. How many more apples does

Jazmin need to pick? ★ Jack has 5 toy dinosaurs. For his birthday Jack gets 1 more dinosaur. How many dinosaurs does

Jack now have? ★ Using the digits 1 to 9 at most one time each, place a digit in each box to make a true statement.

★ Bobbie Bear has a box of red and blue buttons. She takes 4 buttons out of the box. How many of

each color button might she have? How many different options can you find? ★ Make 9 in as many ways as you can by adding two numbers between 0 and 9. ★ For each set of numbers below, pick two numbers that add to make six. Write an equation that shows

that those two numbers add to make 6. ○ 3, 5, 3 ○ 6, 0, 2 ○ 1, 6, 5 ○ 3, 2, 4 ○ 4, 2, 6

★ Take a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood. Have your child identify objects and shapes of the objects. Then have your child record or verbally share positions of the objects they find.

★ Use popsicle sticks to make three shapes. None of the shapes can use the same number of sticks. Describe your shapes. Discuss similarities and differences in the shapes.

★ Use these cards to have your child count the number of dots in different arrangements on each card. ★ Group objects in varying amounts and ask your child to determine which group has more or less. ★ For additional practice on Weeks 7-8 skills, download the Week 9 packet.

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First Grade



★ If you have access to technology, complete 5-10 lessons on DreamBox each week. ★ Using the digits 1 to 9 at most one time each, place a digit in each box to create a true statement.

★ Solve the following problems.

○ Nine boys and eight girls were in a class. How many children were in the class in all? ○ Twenty children were in a class. Nine were boys and the rest were girls. How many girls were

in the class? ○ Fifteen children were in a class. There were some boys and eight girls. How many boys were

in the class? ○ Ali had nine marbles. Maria had five marbles. How many more marbles did Ali have than

Maria. ○ Alid had seven marbles. Maria had five marbles. How many fewer marbles did Maria have

than Ali? ★ Gail and Bill found 12 seashells on the beach. Some of them were shaped like cones. The rest of

them were shaped like half-circles. How many could have been shaped like cones? How many could have been shaped like half-circles? How many different combinations can you find?

★ Pia takes some money to the store to buy school supplies. She buys some paper for $3 and a pen for $2. After she buys these supplies, she has $7 left. How much money did she take to the store?

★ Brady read for three days. At the end of the three days, Brady had read a total of 20 pages. How many pages could he have read on the first, second, and third days? How many other possibilities can you come up with?

★ Have your child practice adding two digit and one digit numbers using multiple strategies. ★ You have $7 to spend at the school store. The table shows the options of what you can buy.

○ How much money would you need to buy one of everything on the list? ○ What can you buy using only $7?

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Water bottle $2

Snack $4

Ball $5

★ Decide if the following equations are true or fale. Correct the statements that are false.

○ 2 + 5 = 6 ○ 3 + 4 = 2 + 5 ○ 8 = 4 + 4 ○ 3 + 4 + 2 = 4 + 5 ○ 5 + 3 = 8 + 1 ○ 1 + 2 = 12 ○ 12 = 10 + 2 ○ 3 + 2 = 2 + 3 ○ 32 = 23

★ Have your child practice identifying different objects as 2D or 3D. Then have them sort the objects by shape, size, or other attributes.

★ Use 20 toothpicks to make three shapes. None of the shapes can use the same number of toothpicks.

★ Emi cut a square brownie into fourths. Draw a picture of the brownie. Emi gave away 3 parts of the brownie to friends. How many pieces does she have left?

★ Measure various objects using non-standard units. Order the objects according to length. ★ Have your child practice telling time to the nearest half hour and different points during the day. Then

have them describe the events of the day based on when things occurred using words like before and after.

★ Have your child practice finding the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, and dimes. ★ How many rectangles are in this picture? (Note: the answer is 11)



★ How many squares are in this picture? (Note: the answer is 14)

★ Have your child practice counting to at least 120 by ones, fives, and tens. Also, have them practice

counting from any given number. ★ Malik is given a list of numbers: 1 5 10 50 100

○ He wants to include the following numbers so all numbers will be listed in order from least (on the left) to greatest (on the right). Where in the list should he put each of these numbers?

■ 49, 7, 22, 98, 3 ★ Starting at 94, how many groups of 10 will you subtract to get to 24?

★ Compare using >, <, or =.

○ 8 ones and 3 tens ___ 42



○ 48 ____ 8 ones and 4 tens ○ 67 ____ 7 tens ○ 32 ones ___ 2 tens and 12 ones

★ Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?

★ For additional practice representing data, download the Week 9 packet.



Second Grade



★ If you have access to technology, complete 5-10 lessons on DreamBox each week. ★ Louis wants to give $15 to help kids who need school supplies. He also wants to buy a pair of shoes

for $39. ○ How much money will he have to save for both? ○ Louis gets $5 a week for his allowance. He plans to save his allowance every week. How

many weeks does it take him to reach his goal? ○ Louis remembers his sister’s birthday is next month. He sets a goal of saving $16 for her gift.

How many weeks does he have to save his allowance to reach this goal? How many weeks does he have to save his allowance for all three of his goals?

★ Place the digits 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 in the blanks (__ ___ + __ __ = __ __) to make a true number sentence. Now find another solution using the same digits each one only once.

★ A pencil costs 59 cents and a sticker costs 20 cents less. How much do a pencil and a sticker cost together?

★ Write 3 two-digit numbers with an even sum. Write 3 two-digit numbers with an odd sum ★ You won first place at your school science fair! You have choices for the prize:

○ Option 1: You can take home $20 today. ○ Option 2: Take $2 a day for the next 15 days.

■ Which option earns more money? How much more? Explain your thinking. ★ Mrs. Coleman’s class is going on a field trip. Each student will be bringing one adult. There will be as

many adults riding as children. The bus has 40 seats, but ten seats are empty. How many adults and children are riding the bus if they each have their own seat? Write your answer in a number sentence.

★ Would you get the same sum if you had two blue buttons and three red buttons as you would if you had three blue buttons and two red buttons? Write the addition sentences that show that.

★ Have your child practice telling time to the nearest five minutes from an analog clock. ★ The picture shows islands connected by bridges. To cross a bridge, you must pay a toll in coins. If

you start on the island on the left (blue star) with 100 coins, how can you make it to the island on the right (red star)?

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★ Terrence is making shapes with 12 toothpicks. Using all the toothpicks, create 3 different shapes he

could make. How many other combinations can you find? ★ Measure different objects with a ruler in feet. Then use your own feet to measure the same objects.

How do the measurements compare? ★ If a cell phone alarm beeps every 5 minutes, how many times will it beep in 1 hour? In 30 minutes? In

2 hours? ★ If students have a quarter-hour for morning recess and 33 minutes for a lunch break, how much free

time do they have in all? How much more time for lunch than recess do they have? ★ Have your child practice counting by ones, twos, fives, and hundreds up to at least 1000. Have them

practice counting on from any given number. ★ What are 5 numbers you would say if you skip count by 10s and started with 358? ★ If you start at 438 and count by 5s and then start at 438 and count by 10s, what are three numbers

that will come up in each pattern?

★ 127 is a number. ○ Write it as a sum of 100’s, 10’s, and 1’s. ○ Write its name in words. ○ Draw a picture to represent the number. ○ Locate it on the number line.



★ A number is shown on the number line. ○ Write it as a three digit number. ○ Write it as a sum of 100’s, 10’s, and 1’s. ○ Write its name in words. ○ Draw a picture to represent the number.

★ Compare each pair of numbers. Write your comparison using <, >, or =.

○ 154 and 231 ○ 452 and 428 ○ 351 and 354

★ Pencils are packed 10 in a box. A classroom carton has 10 boxes. ○ Jem has 1 carton and 4 boxes. How many pencils does Jem have all together? ○ Lee needs to pack 370 pencils. How many boxes does he need? If he puts the boxes in

cartons, how many cartons can he completely fill? ★ Arrange the digits 1-6 into two 3-digit whole numbers. Make the sum as close to 1000 as possible.

★ Using the digits 1 to 9 exactly one time each, place a digit in each box to make the sum as close to 1000 as possible.



★ Are these comparisons true or fale? If they are false, change them to make them true. ○ 2 hundreds + 3 ones > 5 tens + 9 ones ○ 9 tens + 2 hundreds + 4 ones < 924 ○ 456 < 5 hundreds ○ 4 hundreds + 9 ones + 3 ones < 491 ○ 3 hundreds + 4 tens < 7 tens + 9 ones + 2 hundreds ○ 7 ones + 3 hundreds > 370 ○ 2 hundreds + 7 tens = 3 hundreds - 2 tens

★ Write as many equations for each picture as you can. ○ Use the numbers 3, 5, and 8

○ Use the numbers 4, 4, and 8

★ For additional practice on Weeks 7-8 skills, download the Week 9 packet.



Third Grade



★ If you have access to technology, complete 5-10 lessons on DreamBox each week. ★ Jamie had a piece of rope. His brother cut off 47 centimeters and took it! Now, Jamie only has 68

centimeters left. How long was Jamie’s rope before his brother cut it? ★ The 3rd and 4th grade students are going on a field trip. There are 423 total students, and 157 of

them are 3rd graders. How many 4th grade students are going on the field trip? Draw a picture/model to represent your thinking.

★ Use this Illustrative Math task to practice solving real world problems with addition and subtraction. ★ Solve these word problems.

○ Tom has two beakers filled with liquid. Beaker A has 524 ml of liquid and Beaker B has 137 ml less than Beaker A. How much liquid is in Beaker B?

○ Some children are sitting in the auditorium. 178 more children entered the auditorium. Then there were 402 children in the auditorium. How many children were in the auditorium to begin with?

○ Jake scored 284 points in the first round of a new computer game. He scored 121 more points in the second round than in the first round. What was Jake’s total score?

○ Anna read 265 pages of a library book. Greg read 142 less pages than Anna. How many pages did Greg read?

○ There are 443 people in one movie theater. There are 378 people in the next movie theater. How many people in all are in both movie theaters?

○ An ice cream store sold 287 cones on the first day of summer. The store sold 96 fewer cones on the second day of summer than on the first day. How many cones did the store sell on the second day of summer?

○ Chelsea subtracts 149 from 256. She says the difference is 113. Is Chelsea correct? Explain. ★ Each number in the pyramid is the sum of the two numbers below it. Fill in the missing numbers in

the pyramid. Numbers may repeat.

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★ Daniel was making cookies. He had __ __ cookies in each row and __ __ many rows. There were a

total of 84 cookies. How many cookies were there in each row and how many rows of cookies were there. Draw a model to support your answer. You may use the digits 0-9 once in any of the blanks. The answer of 84 does not eliminate the 8 or the 4.

★ Would you rather have 374 jellybeans and give 188 to friends or have 281 jellybeans and give 137 to friends? Justify your answer with math.

★ Use the digits 1 to 9 at most once each, make two three digit numbers that have a difference as close to 329 as possible.

★ Use a ruler or straightedge to draw the following ○ Line RS ○ Point T that is not on line RS ○ Line segment TR

★ Estimate the height and weight of various objects around your house. ★ Determine the high and low temperature every day and record your findings on a chart. ★ Using the balloons below, how many groups of 4 can you make?



★ The cost of combinations of frowns, smiles, and neutral faces are shown. How much is a smile

worth?

★ Use digits 1 to 9, at most once each, to complete the dashes to make a time that is 4:37 pm.

○ ___ ___ minutes after ___:__ __ ★ Mia leaves for the beach at 12:30. It takes 4 hours and 45 minutes to get there. When will she arrive?

★ Determine a reason for why each shape does not belong in the set.



★ Solve these word problems about time.

○ It usually takes Dajuana 45 minutes to do her homework. If she starts her at 5:30 pm, what time will she finish?

○ One day Dajuana started her homework at 6:45 pm and finished at 7:20 pm. How long did she spend on her homework?

○ I left school at 3:15 pm and arrived home 25 minutes later. What time did I arrive home? ○ Mrs. Jones left home at 6:45 am and arrived at school at 7:23 am. How long did it take her to

get to school? ○ John went to bed at 9:40 pm and got up at 7:00 am. How long did he sleep for? ○ Peter completed a bike ride 3 hours and 26 minutes after he started. He started the bike ride

at 8:15 am. At what time did he finish? ○ On Saturday morning, Dan began cutting grass at 9:35 am. He finished at 10:43 am. How

long did it take Dan to cut the grass? ○ After Ben had been at the park for 45 minutes he noticed that the time was 2:30 pm. At what

time did Ben arrive at the park? ○ Tess went to art class at 11:15 am. She painted for 25 minutes. She spent 30 minutes

drawing with crayons. Then she ate lunch. At what time did Tess eat lunch?

★ Denise had three dollars and seven dimes. Dave has three dollars and eight dimes. A smoothie costs $3.74. Can either Denise or Dan buy a smoothie? How do you know?



★ Monica’s grandpa told her she could have all the money in his pocket if she could tell him how much it was worth as shown below.

○ How much money did Grandpa have in his pocket? ○ If Monica wanted to buy a book for $6.75, will Grandpa’s money be enough to buy it?

★ Susan wanted to make a birthday card for her best friend but needed art supplies.

○ She emptied her piggy bank and found 1 quarter, 5 dimes, 3 nickels, and 8 pennies. How much money did Susan find in her piggy bank? Show or explain how you know.

○ Susan went to the store with her mother and saw a pack of stickers for 35 cents and a glitter pen for 60 cents. Does Susan have enough money to buy both items? Show or explain how you know.

○ While Susan was at the store, she saw a ring that she would like to have herself. The ring costs 45 cents. Can she still buy one or both of the other items?

★ If the area of a garden is 20 square feet, what could be the perimeter? How many options can you find? If the perimeter of a garden is 30 feet, what could be the area? How many options can you find?

★ Jon and Charlie plan to run together. They are arguing about how far to run. Charlie says, “I run three-sixths of a mile each day.” Jon says, “I can only run one-half of a mile.” Explain why it is silly for them to argue. Draw a picture or number line to support your reasoning.

★ What is the area of the colored figure? Each unit is 1 square inch.



★ Use the table below to solve the following problems.

○ How much money would you spend if you purchased one of each animal at the pet shop? ○ If you have $3 to spend at the pet shop, what animals would you buy? ○ What two animals could you buy if you have $2 to spend? How much change will you get

back? ○ How much money would you spend if you purchased a dog, snake, and bird?

★ Scott drew this picture. He said, “this shows that one-fourth is equal to four-eighths. What was his mistake?



★ Use the digits 1 to 9, at most one time each, to make three equivalent fractions




Fourth Grade



★ If you have access to technology, complete 5-10 lessons on DreamBox each week. ★ On Friday, 13, 728 tickets were sold for a play. On Saturday, 15, 419 tickets were sold and 12, 399

tickets were sold on Sunday. What was the total number of tickets sold for the play? ★ Effie’s store has 10, 908 more comic books than Brody’s store. Brody’s store has 45, 607 comic

books. How many comic books do Effie’s and Brody’s store have together? ★ Determine which number goes into each box to complete the subtraction problem. You may use the

digits 0-9. Numbers can only be used once.

★ Solve the following word problems.

○ A red umbrella costs $8.00. A blue umbrella costs 3 times as much as the red umbrella. How much does the blue umbrella cost?

○ A pack of six pencils costs five times as much as a single pencil. A single pencil costs 9 cents. How much does the pack of pencils cost?

○ Ms. Smith has 20 dice. Mr. Jones has twice as many dice as Ms. Smith. He borrows all of Ms. Smith’s dice for a math game. Each student needs 3 dice. How many students will be able to play the game?

★ Solve the following word problems involving fractions. ○ Hubert’s job is to shovel ¾ of the driveway whenever it snows. If he gets ¼ of the driveway

shoveled right after the snow stops and does another ¼ of the driveway after he has taken a break, what portion of his job has he done?

○ Gretchen walks 6/8 of a mile home from school. When she is ⅜ of the way home, she stops at the 7-11 for her daily candy bar. How far is it from the 7-11 to her home?

○ Sue ran 9/10 mile on Monday and 7/10 mile on Tuesday. How many miles did Sue run? ★ Use the newspaper, TV, billboards, or online research to find a variety of graphs. Then answer the

following questions about each graph.

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○ What is the title of the graph? ○ What kind of graph is it? ○ What does the graph say to the reader? ○ Is the graph comparing? If so, what is it comparing? ○ Why is the graph important?

★ A school raised $13,809 during its fall fundraiser and $20,786 during its winter fundraiser. The total fundraising goal for the school year was $50,000. How much more money does the school need to raise during the spring fundraiser to reach its goal?

★ Write an addition problem that has a sum of 3,697 using two four digit numbers. Can you find more than one problem?

★ 3,444 + 8_6 = 4,300. What number is missing from the addition sentence? ★ Label the diagram below to solve the problem 443 x 6 = _____

★ Is the product of 29 and 34 over or under 900? Explain how you know. ★ Write the two-digit numbers in expanded notation and use them to complete the area model 46 x 37

★ A shirt costs $15. A pair of sneakers costs four times as much. How much does the pair of sneakers

cost? A hat is half as much as the sneakers, so how much does the hat cost? If Ken buys one hat, one pair of sneakers, and two shirts, how much has he spent?

★ Will 6/10 + 6/10 be greater than one whole? Explain how you know. ★ Choose two of the following fractions



○ How many different ways can you decompose each fraction into a sum of fractions with the

same denominator? ○ Record each decomposition using a fraction model and equation. ○ See the example:

★ Ben and Sam share a whole pizza. The pizza is cut into 6 equal slices and put on two plates. What

fraction of the pizza could be on each plate? Draw fraction models to show 3 different ways Ben and Sam might share the pizza. Write an equation for each model.

★ Is the sum of 4 ⅖ + 2 ⅘ over or under 7? Explain. What is the sum? ★ Is the difference of 5 ⅔ - 3 ⅓ over or under 2? Explain.What is the difference? ★ Use objects around your house or neighborhood (Kleenex boxes, clocks, etc.) to identify angles as

right, acute, or obtuse. ★ Use objects around your house or neighborhood to identify parallel and perpendicular lines. ★ Estimate the length of different objects Then use a rule or tape measure to measure the objects

around your house or neighborhood. Make sure to measure the objects to the nearest ⅛ of an inch. Make a line plot to display the data. What is the difference between the tallest and shortest object? How close were your estimations?

★ Use sidewalk chalk or draw on paper to make drawings. Use a tape measure or ruler to measure the drawings to the nearest quarter-inch and eighth-inch.

★ Yesterday Brittany ran less than 5 kilometers but more than 1,200 meters. How far could she have run? Andrea says Brittany ran 1.5 kilometers. Steven says Brittany ran 3,200 meters. Who do you agree with and why?



★ During the 100 meter dash in the 1988 Olympic Games, Florence Griffith-Joyner was timed at 0.91 seconds for 100 meters. At that speed, could she pass a car traveling 15 miles per hour?

★ Mr. Jones asked the students in his fourth grade class to measure their heights. Here are some of the heights they recorded. List the four students from tallest to shortest.

Student Height

Sarah 50 inches

Jake 4 ¼ feet

Andy 1 ½ yards

Emily 4 feet and 4 inches

★ Find the area and perimeter of the following shapes.

★ Karl’s rectangular vegetable garden is 30 feet by 65 feet and Makenna’s is 35 feet by 60 feet. Whose

garden is larger in area?

★ If a friend offered you ¾ of a cookie or ⅝ of a cookie, which fraction of the cookie would be greater? How do you know?

★ Dennis and Cody are building a castle out of plastic building blocks. They will need 2 ½ buckets of blocks for the castle they have in mind. Dennis used to have two full buckets of blocks but lost some and now has 1 ¾ buckets. Cody used to have two full buckets of blocks too but now he has 1 ¼



buckets. If Dennis and Cody combine their buckets of blocks, will they have enough to build their castle?

★ Order the following fractions from smallest to largest. Explain your reasoning.

★ A dime is 1/10 of a dollar and a penny is 1/100 of a dollar. What fraction of a dollar is 6 dimes and 3

pennies? Write your answer in both fraction and decimal form. ★ Write three decimals that are between ¼ and ¾ . How do you know the answer is correct? ★ Using the digits 0 through 9, at most one each time, create an equivalent fraction and decimal.

★ Use the digits 1 to 9, at most one time each, to fill in the boxes to create two different fractions: one

that is less than one half and one that is greater than one half.




Fifth Grade



★ If you have access to technology, complete 5-10 lessons on DreamBox each week. ★ Barry’s family donated 11 cases of tomato soup to the local food kitchen. Each case has 12 cans of

soup. The shelter already has 16 cans of tomato soup. How many cans of tomato soup does the food kitchen have now? The food kitchen uses 20 cans of tomato soup each week. How many weeks will go by before the food kitchen needs more tomato soup?

★ Take 60 seconds to list as many multiples of 2 as you can. ○ What do you notice about the values in the list? What do you wonder? ○ Is 3,498 a multiple of 2? How do you know? ○ Will all numbers that have a ones value of 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 be a multiple of 2? Why or why not?

★ Take 60 seconds to list as many multiples of 3 as you can. ○ Which numbers in your list are multiples of 6? ○ What pattern do you see where the multiples of 6 appear in the list? ○ Which numbers in the list are multiples of 11? ○ Can you predict when multiples of 11 will appear in the list of multiples of 3? Explain.

★ Karl’s rectangular garden is 40 feet by 75 feet and Makenna’s garden is 30 feet by 85 feet. Whose garden is larger in area?

★ Kevin and Tiana are making soup. The recipe calls for one pound of onions. They have one onion that weighs ½ pound and another that weighs ⅖ of a pound. Kevin says they only have 3/7 of a pound of onions, so they definitely don’t have enough. Do you think Kevin’s answer is reasonable? Why or why not?

★ Alex is training for his schools Jog-a-Thon and needs to run at least 1 mile a day. If Alex runs to his grandma’s house, which is ⅝ of a mile away, and then to his friend Justin’s house, which is ½ of a mile away, will he have trained enough for the day? Explain your thinking.

★ Lisa brought $10 to the fair. She spent $2.59 on cotton candy and $3.49 for a toy. How much money does Lisa have left?

★ Alex, Bryan, and Cynthia are about to eat lunch, and they have two sandwiches to share. ○ Draw a picture to show how they could equally share the sandwiches. How much of a

sandwich does each person get? ○ Write an equation using addition to show how together these parts make up the 2

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sandwiches. Explain how the equation you wrote represents the situation. ○ Write an equation using multiplication to show how all the parts make up the 2 sandwiches.

Explain how the equation you wrote represents the situation ★ Bella has 6.3 kilograms of berries. She packs 0.35 kilograms of berries into each container. She then

sells each container for $2.99. How much money will Bella earn if she sells all the containers? ○ Write an expression to determine how much money Bella will earn if she sells all the

containers. ○ Find the amount of money Bella will earn if she sells all the containers.

★ Jessa has 23 one-dollar bills she wants to divide equally between her 5 children. ○ How much money will each child receive? ○ How much money will Jessa have left over? ○ Jessa exchanged the remaining one-dollar bills for dimes. If she divides the money equally

between her 5 children, how much money will each child get? ★ Solve and explain your steps.

○ 1.7 x 54 ○ 402 x 3.03

★ Arthur computes 485 x 0.34 and gets a product of 16.49 ○ What was Arthur’s mistake? ○ Find the correct product? ○ Explain your answer.

★ Write the expression to represent the quantity. Reina has 5 more quarters than dimes. ○ She has 8 dimes. How many quarters does she have? ○ She has 15 quarters. How many dimes does she have? ○ She has d dimes. How many quarters does she have? ○ She has q quarters. How many dimes does she have?

★ What is the volume of a square prism when the side length of the base measures 1.5 inches and the height measures 8 inches?

★ Draw an area model for 225 x 12. Find the product. ★ Use 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 (each one only once) to make a multiplication problem with the greatest product.

With the smallest product. How does the placement of the numbers impact the product? ★ This is Elmer’s work on a multiplication problem.

○ Use estimation to explain why Elmer’s answer is not reasonable. ○ What error do you think Elmer made? Why do you think he made that error? ○ Find the correct product.



★ Practice multiplying multi-digit whole numbers (3 digit by 1 digit, 3 digit by 2 digit, 2 digit by 2 digit). ★ There are 1,155 cookies to share with 13 groups of people. About how many cookies will each group

get? ★ A store is celebrating its 19th year in business by giving away a prize to every 19th online customer.

A total of 8,281 customers bought something. ○ What is the total number of prizes they gave away? ○ How many additional customers would need to have bought something for one more prize to

be given away? ★ What time was it 2019 minutes after the beginning of January 1, 2019? ★ Use the digits 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9 to form mixed numbers with a difference between 1 and 2. How

many different problems can you find? ★ Find two different ways to add these numbers:

○ 1 ⅓ + 2 ⅗ ○ 2 ⅖ + 4 6/7

★ Add each pair of fractions. Draw a picture to show your solution. ○ ⅕ + 1/15 ○ ¾ + ⅕ ○ 14/8 + 15/12

★ Subtract each pair of fractions. Draw a picture to show your solution. ○ ½ - 1/14 ○ 5/9 - ⅙



○ 21/10 - 24/15 ★ Tito ate one-fourth of a cheese pizza, three-eighths of a pepperoni pizza, and one-half of a

mushroom pizza. Luis ate five-eighths of a cheese pizza and one-half of a mushroom pizza. All the pizzas were the same size. Tito says he ate more pizza than Luis because Luis did not eat any pepperoni pizza. Luis says they each ate the same amount of pizza. Who is correct? Show all your thinking.

★ A teacher drew an area model to find the value of 3,180 ÷ 15 ○ Determine the number each letter in the model represents and explain each of your answers.

Write the quotient.

★ Using the digits 1 to 9 at most one time each, fill in the boxes to make the smallest and largest

quotient.

★ Use the data set 6, 12, 4, 15, 10, 6, 2, and 9 to find the mean, median, mode, and range. ★ Record the high and low temperature for the week. Find the mean, median, mode and range for each

set of temperatures. ★ Complete the fraction grid below.



★ Find objects around your house or neighborhood that are the following types of triangles (right, acute,

obtuse). Record the objects you find and where you found them. Then draw a picture of each triangle using a ruler, straightedge, or compass.

★ Find objects around your house or neighborhood that are circles. Record the objects you find and where you found them. Then draw a picture of each circle using a compass. Can you find an object that has both a circle and triangle?

★ Can you draw a shape that has no lines of symmetry, exactly two right angles, and one acute angle? ★ Find objects around your house or neighborhood that are quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and

triangles (equilateral, isosceles, scalene, right, acute, and obtuse). Record the objects and where you found them. Which ones are easiest to find? Which are the most challenging?

★ Which is greater, 0.1 or 0.01? Show the comparison on the number line.

★ Fifteen friends want to share 3 watermelons equally. What fraction of a watermelon will each friend

get? ★ Jerome is a candy maker. He has three different pieces of fudge. The chocolate fudge weighs 4.562

pounds, the white fudge weighs 4.872, and the peanut butter fudge weighs 4.572 pounds. Taylor is



really hungry for fudge, which piece of fudge should she pick? Explain your reasoning. ★ Isaiah is thinking of the number 9.52 in his head. Decide whether each of the following have the

same value as 9.52. Explain your reasoning. ○ Nine and fifty-two tenths ○ 9 + 0.5 + 0.02 ○ 9 ones + 5 tenths + 2 hundredths ○ 952 tenths

★ Determine a reason why each shape does not fit into the set.

★ The parents equally shared 2 pizzas. There are six adults. The kids equally shared 3 pizzas amongst

all 8 of them. ○ Create a diagram to show how the parents might equally split up their 2 pizzas. What fraction

of a pizza will each parent get. ○ Create a diagram to show how the kids might equally split up their 3 pizzas. What fraction of a

pizza will each kid get? ○ Who received a greater share of a pizza, each kid or each parent? Explain your reasoning.

★ Karl made $365 last month doing odd jobs after school. If 75% of the money made was from mowing lawns, about how much did Karl make mowing lawns? Draw a model to represent your answer.

★ Measure a series of objects in millimeters, centimeters, and meters. What do you notice about the relationships between the measurements?

★ Find a reason why each shape does not fit into the set.



★ Wesley walked 11 miles in 4 hours. If he walked the same distance every hour, how far did he walk in

one hour? Write your answer ○ Using only miles ○ Using a whole number of miles and a whole number of feet ○ Using only feet

★ Find the product of the following fractions. Model your answer. ○ 5 ½ x 8 ¼ ○ ⅔ x ⅘ ○ ⅚ x ⅕

★ There are two design proposals for the new rectangular park in town. ○ In design 1, ¾ of the area of the park is going to be a rectangular grass area and ½ of the

grass area will be a rectangular soccer field. ○ In design 2, only ½ of the park is going to be a rectangular grass area and ¾ of the grass area

will be a regulangular soccer field. ■ Which design will have a bigger soccer field? Explain your answer. Draw a diagram

that can be used to compare the size of the soccer fields in the two designs. ★ Practice finding the volume of right rectangular prisms using the formula V = l x w x h or V = B x h. ★ For additional practice on Weeks 7-8 skills, download the Week 9 packet.

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