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The purchase of this book entitles the buyer to exclusivereproduction rights of the student activity pages for his orher class only. The reproduction of any part of the workfor an entire school or school system or for commercialuse is prohibited.

ISBN 978-1-56644-449-1

© 2012 Educational Impressions, Inc.

© 2016 Barbara M. Peller, also known as Rebecca Stark

Printed in the United States of America.

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STANDARDS ................................................5–7

1. Weeds in the Garden ..................................8

2. A Home for My Fish ....................................9

3. A Close Call ..............................................10

4. Syllogisms ..................................................11

5. Favorite Sports ..........................................12

6. Multiply by 10 ............................................13

7. Divide by 10 ..............................................13

8. What Does It Really Mean? ......................14

9. Favorite Zoo Animals ................................15

10. So Many Teeth ..........................................16

11. Koalas ........................................................16

12. Campaign Spending ..................................17

13. So Many Triangles ....................................18

14. How Does My Score Compare? ................19

15. Will They Fit? ............................................20

16. Change of a Dollar ....................................21

17. Symmetry ..................................................22

18. Who’s Taller?..............................................23

19. A Walk in Space ........................................24

20. Analogies ..................................................25

21. More Analogies ..........................................25

22. A Lesson in Subtraction ............................26

23. On Sale! ....................................................27

24. Name That Angle ......................................28

25. 1/4 or 9/36?................................................29

26. A Piece of Pie ............................................30

27. What Comes Next?....................................31

28. A Reward....................................................32

29. Dividing Fractions ......................................33

30. Multiplying Fractions ..................................33

31. Common Multiples and Factors ................34

32. Great Circles ..............................................35

33. Birthday Money ..........................................36

34. The Shrinking Snowgirl ..............................37

35. Using a Protractor ......................................38

36. Pairs of Angles ..........................................39

37. Will We Ever Meet? ..................................40

38. Where’s the Fruit?......................................41

39. What a Way to Meet! ................................42

40. Batting Average..........................................43

41. Pancake-Eating Contest ............................44

42. Describe That Polygon ..............................45

43. Why Not? ..................................................45

44. A Picky Pancake Eater ..............................46

45. Which Frame?............................................47

46. Share and Share Alike ..............................48

47. So Many Elephants....................................49

48. A Division Problem ....................................50

49. Order of Operations ..................................51

50. Least to Greatest ......................................52

51. Making Change..........................................53

52. Pizza Party ................................................54

53. That’s Impossible! ......................................54

54. A Factor Tree ............................................55

55. Less Than, Greater Than or Equal? ..........56

56. A Block Party..............................................57

57. A Math Test ................................................58

58. Circle Confusion ........................................59

59. Fenced In ..................................................60

60. Ice-Cream Party ........................................61

61. At the Zoo ..................................................62

62. Halloween Candy ......................................63

63. Digit Details................................................64

64. How Many Tablespoons? ..........................65

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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65. The Biggest Balloon ................................66

66. Gigantic Giraffes ......................................67

67. How Many Miles? ....................................68

68. How Many Servings? ..............................69

69. Genre Choices ........................................70

70. A Pile of Junk ..........................................71

71. Panda Feast ............................................72

72. Double Bar Graph....................................73

73. Cubic Inches ............................................74

74. Birthday Cookies......................................74

75. Protect the Sapling ..................................75

76. Prime or Composite? ..............................76

77. Double Line Graph ..................................77

78. A Fish Story ............................................78

79. Piñata Party ............................................79

80. The 100th Day of School ........................80.

81. Lots of Information ..................................81

82. What’s Its Value? ....................................82

83. What’s the Ratio? ....................................83

84. Practice Makes Perfect ............................84

85. Adding Fractions ......................................85

86. Subtracting Fractions ..............................85

87. A Yard of Ribbon......................................86

88. Paying the Bill ..........................................87

89. Multiplying Fractions ................................88

90. Dividing Fractions ....................................88

91. Volume ....................................................89

92. How Many Eggs? ....................................90

93. A New Record..........................................90

94. An Avid Reader ........................................91

95. All About Lines ........................................92

96. A Portion of Peanuts ................................93

97. A Sports Article ........................................94

98. A Larger Garden ......................................95

99. Is There Enough for Us?..........................96

100. Was That My House? ..............................97

CRITICAL- & CREATIVE- THINKING ACTIVITIES

101. Math Terms ..............................................98

102. Everyday Math ........................................99

103. It’s About Time ......................................100

104. Playing Games ......................................101

105. A Geometry Poem..................................102

106. My House ..............................................103

107. Why Bother? ..........................................104

108. You’d Be Surprised! ..............................105

109. The Perfect Math Teacher......................106

110. A Survey ................................................107

111. Zero ........................................................108

112. Pi ............................................................109

113. An Acrostic..............................................110

114. Study Tips ..............................................111

115. Math Makes Me ______ ........................112

116. Math Symbols ........................................113

117. Measuring Terms ....................................114

118. A Perfect Circle ......................................115

119. Math Tools ..............................................116

120. Dimensions ............................................117


StandardsMATHEMATICS CORE STANDARDS: ACTIVITIES 1–100(Numbers refer to activity Numbers, not page numbers.)

Apply and extend understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and dividefractions. 26, 29, 30, 34, 89, 90, 92

Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world mathematical prob-lems. 45, 59, 98

Classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles. 4, 13, 42, 43

Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurementsystem and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real-world problems. 18, 19,45, 60, 64, 65, 78, 87

Determine whether a given whole number in the range of 1–100 is prime or composite.76

Draw and identify lines and angles. 24, 37, 39, 46, 95

Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number bypowers of 10. 6, 7, 12

Explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied ordivided by a power of 10. 7

Extend understanding of fraction equivalence. 10, 25, 52, 66, 83, 99

Find a percent of a quantity as a rate of 100. 23, 34, 40, 41, 74, 80, 88, 93, 94

Find the area of special quadrilaterals by composing into rectangles or decomposing intotriangles and other shapes. 38, 43

Find the volume of a right rectangular prism. 91

Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers. 22

Fluently divide multi-digit numbers. 48, 79

Gain familiarity with factors and multiples. 31, 54, 76

Generate and analyze patterns. 27, 47

Interpret multiplication as scaling (resizing) by explaining why multiplying a given num-ber by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number. 53

Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve prob-lems. 44, 58, 7

5Measure angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor. 35


Perform arithmetic operations in the conventional order when there are no parenthesesto specify a particular order. 49

Read, write and compare decimals to thousands. 8, 40, 50, 52, 55

Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as muchas it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to itsleft. 82

Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure. 17

Represent and interpret data. 5, 9, 69, 72, 77, 81

Solve mathematical problems involving area, surface area and volume. 1, 2, 15, 21,38, 73, 91, 98

Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-numberanswers using the four operations. 56

Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the samewhole and having like denominators. 85,

Solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent. 28, 61

Solve real world problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero numbers anddivision of whole numbers by unit fractions. 62, 68

Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the samewhole, including cases of unlike denominators (including mixed numbers). 67, 70, 78,87, 99

Solve word problems involving division of numbers leading to answers in the form of frac-tions or mixed numbers. 96

Solve word problems involving money. 23, 51, 88

Summarize and describe distributions. 11, 14, 19, 31, 41, 57

Understand concepts of angle and measure angles. 35, 36, 46

Understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and division. 91

Understand the concept of ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationshipbetween two quantities. 12, 40, 38, 83

Understand the place value system. 6, 7, 8, 12, 63

Understand the relationship between addition and subtraction. 20, 22

Use the four operations to solve word problems involving intervals of time. 3, 19, 84


Although not so marked, activities also address the standards of good mathematicalpractices:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.• Model with mathematics.• Use appropriate tools strategically.• Attend to precision.• Look for and make use of structure.• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING: ACTIVITIES 100–120

The critical-and-creative thinking activities as well as many of the math activities alsoaddress some or all of these language arts core standards:

• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and infor-mation clearly.

• Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.• Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain

the topic.


WEEDS IN THE GARDEN1. You have planted a garden and notice that a rectangular area of the gardenis covered with weeds. In order to determine how much weed killer to buy, youmust figure out how many square yards are in your garden. Explain how youwill determine the number of square yards.


A HOME FOR MY FISH2. You want to buy a larger aquarium for your fish. You know that the oneyou have has a volume of 4,608 cubic inches. The one you are looking atmeasures 20” x 12” x 12”. You want to know if it has a greater volume thanthe one you have at home. How will you find out?


A CLOSE CALL!3. You wake up at 7 a.m. The school bus will leave your stop at 8:15 sharp. Ittakes you 70 minutes to get ready and get to the bus stop. Will you be at thebus stop in time to make the bus? Explain how you know.


SYLLOGISMS4. Complete this syllogism:

A. All rectangles have four right interior angles.B. Squares are a sub-category of rectangles.C. Therefore, _______________________________________.

Then write an original syllogism using other shapes.


FAVORITE SPORTS5. The chart below shows the percentage of sixth graders in Valley MiddleSchool who favor each sport. In complete sentences, write everything you canlearn from studying the chart.

Favorite Sports of 240 Sixth-grade Studentsof Valley Middle School

soccer25%

basketball20%

football20%

baseball orsoftball

20%tenn

is 10

%hocke

y 5%


MULTIPLY BY TEN6. What is the easiest way to solve these problems? Explain why.

10 x 2,560 =

100 x 2,560 =

1,000 x 2,560 =

DIVIDE BY TEN7. What is the easiest way to solve this problem? Explain what we are reallydoing when we divide 2,560 by 10.

2,560 ÷ 10 =


WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN?9. Use < or > to compare these numbers. Write out the largest number inexpanded form. In other words, explain exactly what each digit means. Forexample, 238 means there are 2 hundreds, 3 tens and 8 ones.

86.582 8,658.2 865.82


FAVORITE ZOO ANIMALS9. Take a survey to find out your classmates’ favorite zoo animals. Then writea summary of your findings.

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