Math Tools You’ll Need
Math journal or notebook, folder, pencil, crayons,
ruler, regular deck of playing cards, coins,
shopping ads, graph paper, take-out menus
Directions
1. Find or make a folder at home.
2. Every time you do one of the activities put the
paper in the folder.
3. Return your folder to your 4th grade teacher in August
to show him/her how awesome you are!
Here’s an example of a terrific journal entry:
July 11, 2017
Today I found 3 different ways to make $1.00.
First I used 3 quarters, 2 dimes, and 1 nickel. Next I
had 5 dimes and 2 quarters. Finally, I had 2
quarters, 2 dimes, and 6 nickels.
Cool Math Books to Read:
Counting on Frank by Rod Clement
A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School
by Louis Sachar
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
by Hans Enzensberger
R.Ryckman 2017
Games to Play with a Deck of Cards
*On a day you see
flashcards.
use either multiplication or division
1. Multiplication War- Designate all of the face cards as ten
points. Treat the ace as eleven points. Deal out all the cards
equally between 2 to 3 players. Each player turns over 2 cards
and multiplies the numbers together. The person with the highest
product wins all four cards. If you have the same product
declare “War” and play 2 more cards. The person with the most
cards wins.
2. Close to 1,000. - Deal 8 cards to each player. Use any 6 of
your cards to make two 3-digit numbers (Aces =1; Jacks, Queens,
and Kings =WILD cards and stand for any digit 0-9). Try to
make a combination that when added is close to or exactly 1,000.
Write these two numbers in your journal.
Example: 1,5,4,3,1,8,3,8
You combine 148 and 853 to make 1,001. Your score is 1 since the
difference between 1,000 and 1,001 is 1. You make a recording
sheet in your journal like this:
Round 1: 148 + 853 = 1,001 Score 1
Put the 6 cards you used in the discard pile. Keep the other
two for the next round. Pick up 6 more cards and play 5 rounds.
Add the score to each round. The lowest score after 5 rounds
wins!
Other Games to Play: Monopoly, Stratego, Othello, Connect Four,
Battleship, Mancala, Simon, Yahtzee, and Mastermind.
June 2017
Sun
Mon
Survey 10 friends or
relatives to find out
their favorite outdoor
activity. Graph the
results.
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Figure out your age
Roll 2 number
Find and record 3
in months, days,
cubes. Add the
numbers larger than
hours.
numbers. Multiply by 7. one million. Add them
Repeat 10 times.
all together. Record
Record in journal.
the sum.
Calculate the
average age of the
people who live in your
house. Add up their
ages and divide by the
number of people. You
can use a calculator.
Joey is going to have a Use a ruler to draw
new floor put in his
a regular hexagon,
room. If his room is 8
pentagon, and
ft. by 10 ft, how many octagon. See if you
square feet of flooring
can find a line of
will he need? If each symmetry for each.
tile costs $3.00 a
Record in journal.
square foot, how much
will he spend?
List at least 7
different combinations
of coins that equal
$1.00. Use pennies,
nickels, dimes,
quarters, and half
dollars.
Use an old magazine
There are 4 cups in
or newspaper to find one quart and 4 quarts
3 items that have at in a gallon. How many
least one line of
cups are in 4 gallons of
symmetry. Cut them
punch? How many
out and put them in
quarts are in 4
your journal.
gallons?
Record the prices of Parker has 6 square
5 cars from the
tiles. Each tile has a
newspaper sales
width of 8 inches. She
listings. Order the
lays the tiles down in a
prices from least to long row. What is the
greatest. Round each
perimeter of the
price to the nearest
rectangle of tiles?
thousand.
Flip a coin 25 times.
You get up at 7:30 Draw 5/8 as a fraction Complete a calculator
Make a tally chart for a.m. and you need to
using a circle and a
puzzle!
how many times it
be at your friend’s
fraction bar.
http://
lands on heads or tails. house at 8:15 a.m.
www.mikesmathclub.
Write a fraction for
How much time do
org/calc_puzzles.pdf
your head and tail data.
you have to get
ready if it takes you
10 minutes to walk
there?
Sat
July 2016
Sun
Mon
If you ate 1/3 of a
birthday cake and
your friend ate 1/4
of the same cake,
who ate more? Use
pictures to explain
your answer.
Matthew pays for his
lunch with a $5.00 bill.
He receives 5
quarters, 2 nickels,
and 4 pennies in
change. How much did
his lunch cost?
What comes next?
1, 1, 2, 4, 7, ___
4, 9, 16, 25, ___
Make up your own
pattern.
Multiply:
x
4, 000
200
Tue
Wed
Dalton can paint 18 How many quarters
pots in one hour. Lila
are in $7.00?
can paint 4 fewer
pots per hour than
Dalton. How many
pots can they paint
in 3 hours?
A tree was planted
36 years before
1971. How old was
the tree in 2016?
Thu
Fri
On July 4, 1776, the
United States declared
its Independence from
Great Britain. How
many years ago was
this?
Create your own
number riddle.
Lanie ate 1/4 of a
pizza. What fraction
of the pizza did she
eat in twelfths?
Find the difference: What number is 10 Emily multiplied two odd
20, 002
more than 4,492?
numbers and got a
- 8, 897
What number is 300 product that was less
more than 4,830? than 30. Name all of the
What number is 500 fact combinations she
more than 4,654?
could have multiplied.
Divide:
70 ÷ 2 =
Gather 3 store receipts.
List all of the
Find the total amount
letters of the
that was spent, not
alphabet that have
including the tax.
vertical or horizontal
line symmetry.
Sat