2022 Summer Math Newsletter-Week 3
July 17-23
Chicken Math
We hope you are enjoying your summer and we hope you are enjoying the Summer Math Newsletters too. If you have missed the previous editions you can find them below.
More fun activities are below, especially if you like chickens. Find the activities that are just right for you and your family. Happy Mathing.
Math Fun
Math Puzzle - Get the chickens to their coops
Draw a path to connect each chicken with their rectangle coop with the same number (chicken #1 goes to coop #1, chicken #2 with coop #2, and chicken #3 with coop #3).
Lines cannot go outside the big box and lines cannot cross.
Answer will be given next week.
If you have been working on this puzzle for a long time, you think it is impossible and need a little hint...
Try starting with chicken #2 and have her go around #3 and #1 before going to her coop.
The answer to last week's puzzle...
The order of the cards should have been:
Ace - 6 - 2 - 10 - 3 - 7 - 4 - 9 - 5 - 8
Talking Math
There is so much math in this picture. What math do you see? Below are some ideas to get you started.
Students entering grade:
- K - Are there more or less than 10 chicks?
- 1 - How many more chicks do we need to have 10 chicks in all?
2 - If there were 10 more chicks, how many chicks would there be in all?
- 3 - Is there an even number of chicks or an odd number of chicks? How do you know?
- 4 - Each chick eats 5 worms a day. How many worms will all of the chicks eat in one day?
- 5 - Each chick eats 5 worms a day. How many worms will all of the chicks eat in one week?
What made you curious? What math questions did you come up with?
Math Surrounds Us!
Math is all around us all the time.
Try to look around your house, your neighborhood, or anywhere you go to find some math this week.
Read a picture book this week. As you are reading, look for shapes that the illustrator used when making the pictures. It doesn't have to be a math book or a chicken book, it can be any book with pictures.
Math Practice
Closing Thought of the Week:
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch"