Summer Math Tic-Tac-Toe- Entering 5th 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 multiplication
and division facts! Color in a
sun at the bottom of the page
for every ten minutes you
practice.
Grocery Store Math
Take a trip to a grocery store
with an adult. As you are
shopping, answer the
questions on the recording
sheet.
Fidget Spinner Fractions
If you have a fidget spinner,
or are able to borrow one,
have a little fraction fun with
this activity. Spin your spinner
100 times and record your
results in fractions and
decimals.
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.
Edible Area and Perimeter
Complete this activity with
Cheez-Its or any other square
snack cracker. Build the
shapes as instructed, and find
the area and perimeter of
each.
License Plate Math
Review place value concepts
with this activity using license
plates. Find a license plate
with at least 4 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 5 items on the board to
get BINGO.
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!
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Question
Find your favorite snack. How much
would it cost if you bought two?
Pick out 5 items from your shopping
cart. Estimate your total by rounding
to the nearest dollar.
Pretend you are making breakfast.
Write down 3 breakfast items that
you could buy for $7 or less.
Take a trip down the bread aisle.
Find the most expensive loaf of
bread you can find, and the least
expensive loaf of bread. How much
more does the most expensive loaf
cost?
If you were to buy the most
expensive loaf of bread and you
paid with a $20 bill, how much
change would you receive?
Most grocery stores have scales in
the produce aisle. Choose some fruit
or vegetables to weigh. How many
pounds do your items weigh? How
many ounces is that?
*16 oz =1 lb!
How many different varieties of
apples does your grocery store sell?
If you were to buy 13 of each type of
apple, how many apples would you
have to buy?
Answer
Fidget Spinner Fractions
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 100 times. Record a tally mark for where your spinner landed at the end of
each spin. Complete the chart by writing the fractions and the decimals!
Color of Section
Total Tallies
Number of spins: 100
Write as a fraction
Write as a decimal
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, you will use a timer to measure how many seconds your
plane stays in the air. For the second 5 flights, you will measure the distance that your plane travels.
Then, answer the questions that follow.
Name:
Name:
Length of flight (in seconds)
Length of flight (in seconds)
Flight 1
Flight 2
Flight 3
Flight 4
Flight 5
Feet
Inches
Feet
Inches
Flight 6
Flight 7
Flight 8
Flight 9
Flight 10
1. How far did your paper airplane travel in flights 7 and 9 combined? Show your work!
2. Use the information from flights 1-5 to answer the following question: How long did your paper
airplane stay in the air all together? **Remember, 1 minute = 60 seconds!
3. Look at your data and your partner’s data for flight #6. Whose plane flew farther? By how
much? Show your work!
Edible Area and Perimeter
For this activity, you will need snack crackers that are square in shape: Cheez-its,
Wheat Thins, Triscuits, etc. Construct the rectangles and find the area and perimeter of
each.
1. Form your crackers into a 6 by 4 rectangle.
Area: _____ square units
Perimeter: _____ units
2. Form your crackers into a 3 by 9 rectangle.
Area: _____ square units
Perimeter: _____ units
3. Form your crackers into a 7 by 5 rectangle.
Area: _____ square units
Perimeter: _____ units
4. Can you construct a rectangle with an area of 18 square units? Draw a picture of
your snack crackers below.
5. Can you construct a rectangle with a perimeter of 10 units? Draw a picture of
your snack crackers below.
6. Use your snack crackers to help you answer the following question: Suzy makes
a rectangle out of snack crackers. The length of one of the sides is 4 crackers.
The perimeter is 22 units. What is the length of the other side?
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 4 numbers on it. You will
use the numbers ONLY to answer the following questions.
License Plate Number
(write the number and letters of the plate)
1. Using only the numbers on the license
plate, what is the largest number you are
able to make?
2. Write this number in word form.
3. Write this number in expanded form.
4. What number is 10 more than your
answer to #1?
5. What number is 100 more than your
answer to #1?
6. What number is 1000 more than your
answer to #1?
7. Round the answer to #1 to the nearest
thousand.
8. Round to the nearest hundred.
9. Round to the nearest ten.
10.
Choose 3 digits on the license
plate. Can you make 2 of the digits equal
the third with addition, subtraction,
multiplication, or division? For example, if
you have a 6, a 2, and a 3, you can make
the equation 2 x 3 = 6.
Scavenger Hunt
Look through a newspaper or magazine. See if you can find the items below. When you find it, write
the example in the box. Try to get five in a row to get BINGO: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
You can also challenge yourself to try to fill in the whole grid!
Number written in
word form
Time
Polygon
Date
Price
Temperature
Number greater
than 1 million
Mixed Number
Recipe
A Unit of Measure
Height
A Decimal Greater
Than 1.
A Pattern
A Bar Graph
(draw a quick picture below)
Free Space
Circle Graph
A Year that is an
EVEN number.
A Table of Data
Prime Number
Parallel lines
A number where the
value of the digit in
one place is ten times
as much as the digit
next to it.
Perpendicular
lines
Composite
Number
An Acute Angle
A Year that is an
ODD number.
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. 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.
Trial
Lands made in one minute
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3
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5
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7
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9
10
Now, create a dot plot of your data below. A
sample dot plot is provided for you, using
sample data.