Subtraction in 2nd Grade! Fun game!

Careful subtraction is an important skill. Flash cards can get repetitive and your child may lose interest in practicing. Try this fun game for an exciting change! Roll the dice and hope for big numbers! Players begin with 99 points. On each turn, they'll subtract the total they roll on the dice. The first player to reach or pass zero wins! Subtracting has never been so fun, and the competitive spirit of this game will keep your child engaged and ready to learn.

What You Need:

• 2 dice
• Paper and pencil for each player for keeping score

Egg Carton Colour Sorter - PK activity!

Identifying colours is a necessary skill that people use everyday—for choosing which clothes to wear, reading signs, following traffic signals, and describing the surrounding world. Introduce your child to this bright new world of colours using ordinary household objects such as buttons, beads, and marbles. She can group these objects into different sections and learn to recognize their written names using a homemade egg carton sorter. This activity provides an interactive, colourful way for your preschooler to practice colour recognition!

What You Need:

• Paper egg carton (half-dozen or full dozen)
• Paint or markers in 6-12 different colours
• Writing pen
• Small, brightly-colored trinkets such as buttons, beads, or glass stones

What to Do:

1. Help your child paint the lid of the egg carton with white paint or cover it with plain paper.
2. Have your child make a small spot of each color on the egg carton lid. Write the name of the colour above it with a pen.
3. On the inside of the carton, use paint or markers to designate a colour for each as well.
4. Ask your child to sort the trinkets according to colour, placing each one in the appropriate well. Start a conversation about the different colours with your child as you sort, asking her to name the colour or point to it as she sorts each trinket. Show her the word on the lid that corresponds with each colour.

To store the activity for later use, simply close the carton lid with the trinkets inside. The contents will be kept sound and ready for the next colour sorting exercise!

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Oatmeal Pancakes - Let´s practise fractions!

The kitchen can be a favorite place for kids. And cooking helps them develop valuable skills-- from eye-hand coordination, to reading, to math. Cooking is especially good for helping kids practise fractions on the fly.
This Oatmeal Pancakes recipe is not only easy for young kids to make, but it's also easy for them to cut in half, or to double-- a great way for them to practice the early fractions they have learnt.

What You Need:

• 1/2 cup quick oats
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup milk + 1 tablespoon lemon juice: allow to sit for 5 minutes
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teasoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 egg

What You Do:

1. Combine all ingredients and mix together until the batter is smooth.
2. Spray the griddle or frying pan with cooking spray. For each pancake, pour 1/4 cup of batter onto the hot pan and cook the pancakes until they start to bubble and the edges are cooked. Flip and cook the other side.
3. Serve with warm maple syrup, yogurt and fresh fruit, or however your family likes them! This recipe makes about 10 pancakes.

 

 

 

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Number recognition for the little ones!

Send your child on a number hunt! In this simple activity, she'll search for numbers hidden throughout the house (or classroom!) Scavenger hunts spell big fun for young kids, but in the midst of all the excitement, kids learn to recognise number names, recognise numbers by sight, and develop ordering and grouping skills.

What You Need:

• Cards, books, or pictures that show numbers or number names big enough to be easily recognized by children. (If you don't have any handy, you can draw numbers on brightly coloured handmade number cards made of construction paper.)

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Explore Circumference with Your Bicycle Wheel - 5th Grade

By late Primary school, students have already learned about the basic properties of geometric shapes, but they are still exploring the many ways that geometry translates to real-world situations. Sure, finding the distance around, or the "perimeter", of a polygon like a square or triangle is pretty easy. But how about finding the distance around a circle, the "circumference"?

This hands-on-activity gives your child practice in finding the circumference of an object, while teaching her to use a step-by-step approach to gain the information necessary to solve a mathematical problem. Plus, it's a great way to get outside and have some family fun in the sun!

What You Need:

• bicycle
• a sidewalk, or some other place to ride
• a length of string
• meter stick
• paper
• pencil
• chalk (optional)

What You Do:

Step 1

Have your child ride her bicycle down the sidewalk a short, specific distance. Draw a chalk line, or use a marker such as a tree or a sign to show her where to stop. Ask her to estimate how many times her bicycle wheel went around.

Step 2

Use the string to help your child find the circumference of her bicycle wheel. Ask your child to lay her bicycle down. Hold the end of the string tightly on the tire and have your child to take the other end of the string and place it around the tire until it meets the end you are holding. Cut the string so that is reflects the measurement of the circumference of the tire. Help your child measure the string to the nearest centimeter. Next, have her measure the distance her bicycle wheel traveled to the nearest centimeter.

Step 3

Now that you have the measurement of the tire’s circumference and the measurement of the distance traveled, it's time to find the number of times your child’s bicycle wheel went around. Ask her how she would set up the problem. Working together, divide the distance traveled by the circumference of the tire to find the answer!

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A prime numbers Math game - 4th Grade

What is a prime number? Check out this great way to learn. Find a deck of cards and deal them out. We hope your hand has a lot of prime numbers in it! If it does, you have a good chance of winning. If not, we wish you luck when you reach your hand over to the draw pile. Before you know it, you’ll have the first several prime numbers memorized and some great skills to take with you back to math class.

Terms to Know:

• Prime Number: a number with no factors excepting itself and 1 (The first several prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, and 23. The number 1 is not a prime number and is instead classified as a unit.)
• Factor: a number that divides evenly into another number

What You Need:

• Deck of playing cards

What You Do:

1. Shuffle the deck and deal five cards to each player.
2. In this game, Aces = 1, Jacks = 11, Queens = 12, and Kings = 13.
3. Players take turns discarding cards, face up and one at a time, into a discard pile. Players may only discard prime numbers or a group of cards whose sum is a prime number. If a player is unable to discard a prime number, they must draw from the deck until they find or create one.
4. Play continues until the pack is depleted. The winning player is the player with the fewest cards left in their hand.

A Rapid Rouding Game - 3rd Grade

As third graders begin to work on more complex  exercises, they will need some way to quickly double check their answers. That's why rounding is such an important skill set to master in third grade. The good part? "Rapid Fire Rounding" can be fun. This kinesthetic game will help your child practice this skill and get her adrenaline rushing.

What You Need:

• 9 pieces of poster board in various colors
• masking tape
• large black marker
• index cards
• stop watch

What You Do:

• Label the poster boards by hundreds from 100 to 900 (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900). Each poster board should have one number on it. Tape these all in a row to the ground outside, or in an open space in your home where it's okay to stomp on them.
• On the index cards, write a variety of numbers from 100 to 900, such as 136, 879, 510, etc... There should be about 40 cards.
• Tell your child that you are going to hand him a card, and he has to round the number to the nearest hundreds place and then jump on the correct answer as quickly as he can. After three tries to get the slickest time, switch places. Now it's your turn to claim the title as the fastest rounder!
• After a few rounds like this, shuffle the poster boards around so that they are no longer in order, but all mixed up. How does this affect your time?