Summer Math Tic-Tac-Toe- Entering 3 rd Grade The game board below contains 9 fun and engaging real-world math activities. Choose 3 activities in order to get a tic-tac-toe, three-in-a-row. You can achieve three in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. If you want, challenge yourself to complete the whole board. Accompanying recording sheets are provided in this packet. Fact Practice Using flash cards or a math app or website (see list for suggestions), take some time to practice your addition and subtraction facts! Color in a sun at the bottom of the page for every ten minutes you practice. Paper Airplanes In this activity, you and a partner will each construct a paper airplane. Then, watch them fly and record their airtime and the distances they travel. Grocery Store Math Take a trip to a grocery store with an adult. As you are shopping, answer the questions on the recording sheet. Edible Geometry Complete this activity with a favorite snack, like pretzel sticks. Build the shapes as instructed, and answer the questions on the recording sheet. Fidget Spinner Graphing If you have a fidget spinner, or are able to borrow one, have a little graphing fun with this activity. Spin your spinner 10 times and record your results in a bar graph. License Plate Math Review place value concepts with this activity using license plates. Find a license plate with at least 3 numbers on it, and answer the questions on the recording sheet. Scavenger Hunt Look in a newspaper or magazine (online or paper copy) to try to find examples of math in the real world. Try to find 4 items on the board: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Math Games Go on to any of the suggested math websites or apps, and spend 30 minutes playing games of your choice. Bottle Tossing Practice your bottle tossing skills while keeping track of some data. Turn your data into a dot (line) plot. Track your fact practice here! For every 10 minutes you spend practicing your facts this summer, color in one sun!
Grocery Store Math Head to the grocery store with an adult. See if you can answer the questions below! Be sure to show your work in the space provided! Question 1. Joseph has 2 dollar bills, 4 quarters, and 5 nickels. How much money does he have in all? 2. Find the cost of one loaf of bread. Does Joseph have enough to buy that bread? 3. What would the bread cost if it was 4. Find the cost of all of the different sizes of milk: 5. Which container from question number 4 is the largest? Which container is the smallest? Answer Cost of Bread: Does he have enough? 10 cents more: 10 cents less: 100 cents more: 100 cents less: 1 gallon: 1 half gallon: 1 quart: 1 pint: is largest. is smallest. 6. Find a cake mix flavor that you like to eat. Read the directions to find out how many minutes it takes to bake cupcakes. 7. What temperature does the package say to use to bake the cupcakes? 8. Draw the clock hands to show 6:00 p.m. on the first clock. On the second clock, draw the hands to show what time the cupcakes would be finished baking if you put them in the oven at 6:00 p.m.
Fidget Spinner Graphing You can complete this activity with your fidget spinner, but if you do not have a fidget spinner, you can use a paper clip and a pencil to create a spinner (see picture below on left). Directions: Color each of the sections of the spinner paper a different color. Label the table- write the color you used in each box. Place a piece of tape cut into a small triangle on one of the spinner s prongs. Spin your spinner 10 times. Record a tally mark for where your spinner landed at the end of each spin. Then, use your results to fill in the bar graph! Color of Section Total Tallies Number of spins: 10 Title of Graph: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Color: Color: Color:
Flying with Paper Fun Planes Directions: You and a partner each need to construct a paper airplane. Then, send your airplanes flying, one at a time. For the first 5 flights, have an adult help you to use a timer and measure how many seconds your plane stays in the air. For the second 5 flights, you will measure the distance that your plane travels to the nearest whole foot. Then, answer the questions that follow. Flight 1 Flight 2 Flight 3 Flight 4 Flight 5 Flight 6 Flight 7 Flight 8 Flight 9 Flight 10 Name: Length of flight (in seconds) Feet Name: Length of flight (in seconds) Feet 1. How many seconds did your airplane stay in the air during flight 2? Is this an odd number or an even number? 2. During flight 9, how many feet did your airplane and your partner s airplane fly altogether?
Edible Geometry For this activity, you will need a snack that is in the form of a straight line. Some suggestions are pretzel sticks, breadsticks, or Twizzlers. Follow the directions below to create the shapes. 1. Create a shape that has 3 sides. Draw a picture of the shape you created. Write its name. Picture Name: 2. Create a shape that has 5 sides. Draw a picture of the shape you created. Write its name. Picture Name: 3. Form a rectangle. Draw a picture of the rectangle you created in the blank space below. 4. Now, use your pretzels, breadsticks, etc. to divide your rectangle in HALF. Draw a picture of what your shape looks like now.
License Plate Math For this activity, you will need to choose one license plate (you should see lots of these every day in your travels!). The license plate that you choose will need to have at least 3 numbers on it. You will use 3 numbers ONLY to answer the following questions. License Plate Number (write the number and letters of the plate) 1. Using only three of the numbers on the license plate, what is the largest number you are able to make? 2. Which digit is in the TENS place of the number you just created? 3. Which digit is in the ONES place of the number you just created? 4. Which digit is in the HUNDREDS place of the number? 5. What number is 100 MORE than your number? 6. What number is 10 MORE? 7. What number is 100 LESS? 8. What number is 10 LESS? 9. Write your number in expanded form! For example, 327 = 300 + 20 + 7 Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt Look through a newspaper or magazine. See if you can find the items below. When you find an item, write the example in the box. Try to get four in a row: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. You can also challenge yourself to try to fill in the whole grid! Number written in words Time A 4 sided polygon Date Temperature Number greater than 100 A measurement in FEET Recipe A triangle A Bar Graph (draw a quick picture below) A Year that is an ODD number Height A Price A Year that is an EVEN number. A Pattern A Cube
Bottle Tossing Flipping water bottles has been a craze this year with elementary students! Water bottle flipping is an activity and a challenge that involves throwing a plastic water bottle (typically full or partially full of liquid) into the air so that it rotates, in an attempt to land it upright. You will need a water bottle that has at least 2 inches of water in it. Have an adult set the timer for one minute and record how many times you can toss the bottle and get it to land on its bottom. Record the results in the table below. Then create a dot plot (line plot) of your data. A sample dot plot has been provided for you. Now, add your own dots to the line plot to represent your data! Trial 1 Lands made in one minute (Use tallies) 2 3 4 5 Now, create a dot plot of your data below. A sample dot plot is provided for you, using sample data. Number of Lands