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!

Question Answer 1. Find your favorite snack. How much

would it cost if you bought two?

2. Pick out 5 items from your shopping cart. Estimate your total by rounding to the nearest dollar.

3. Pretend you are making breakfast. Write down 3 breakfast items that you could buy for $7 or less.

4. 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?

5. If you were to buy the most expensive loaf of bread and you paid with a $20 bill, how much change would you receive?

6. 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!

7. 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?

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

A Pattern

A Bar Graph (draw a quick picture below)

Free Space

Height A Decimal Greater Than 1.

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.

Now, create a dot plot of your data below. A sample dot plot is provided for you, using sample data.

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