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Resources for Educators, a Division of CCH Incorporated Intermediate Edition September 2016 • Page 2 Building Understanding and Excitement for Children September 2016 Jonathan Armstrong GISD Family & Community Engagement INFO Piece of the pie BITS Fractions and pizza go Multiplication together like mozzarella and pepper- oni. When you eat pizza, ask your child what fraction 2 slices would be games –2 –1 (if there are 8 slices, 2 slices = 8 , or 4 ). What better But what about the toppings? If there way to practice are 48 pepperoni pieces on the pizza multiplication and she eats 6 pieces of pepperoni, than with –6 –1 what fraction did she have? ( 48, or 8 games your of the pepperoni) child will want Engineer a geoboard to play again See what your youngster comes up and again? with when you suggest he build a Here are two geoboard. He’ll you can try today— need a plat- and tomorrow! form (card- Face off board, wood) Materials: deck of cards (face cards Multiply to 1,000 and something for the pegs (push- removed, ace = 1) Materials: dominoes, 10 scraps of pins, screws). He can decide how Deal all the cards evenly. Then, each paper numbered 0–9, paper, pencil big to make his grid, perhaps 5 x 5. player turns over two cards and multi- Spread the dominoes out facedown. When he’s done, he’ll enjoy using plies the numbers together. Whoever Shuffle and stack the papers. On each rubber bands to make shapes and has the highest product (answer) collects turn, a player picks a domino and uses designs on his own geoboard. all the cards. If there’s a tie, players turn it to form the largest two-digit number Book picks over their next two cards, and the winner possible (a domino with 3 dots and 6 dots takes all. Keep playing until one person would make 63). Then, the player draws a Amazing Minecraft Math: Cool Math collects the entire deck—he’s the win- slip of paper and multiplies by that num- Activity Book for Minecrafters (Osie ner. Note: If a player has only one card ber to get his score. For example, if he Publishing) is a color-by-number left, he can multiply it by itself (9 x 9 draws 4, he would multiply 63 x 4 for a book. Solve a math problem to know or 1 x 1). score of 252. On each round, add your what color to make your favorite score to your previous one. Whoever Minecraft characters. reaches 1,000 first wins the game. Walk with your child through galler- Going underground ies of fish, mammals, birds, and more in Animalium: Welcome to the Museum There’s a whole world of activity just under (Katie Scott and Jenny Broom). the grass that your youngster can explore. Let her turn a shovelful of dirt over to see Just for fun what it uncovers, such as: ● Earthworms. Worms help to break Q: What has a down leaves and other material, and they neck but no move nutrients and minerals around for head and healthy soil. Can your child find one and two arms but identify its head and tail? (Hint: Worms usually move head first.) no hands? ● Roots. Ask her to point to roots in the dirt and follow them to their source. A A: A shirt. long single root might be a dandelion, branching roots may be clover, and a thick, strong root could belong to a tree. © 2016 Resources for Educators, a division of CCH Incorporated Intermediate Edition September 2016 • Page 2 ✔ A line graph is best for showing The best graph data over time, like daytime tem- peratures for a week. for the job ✔ A bar graph is good for compari- Graphs help your youngster visualize sons, such as the popularity of various types of music. and understand data. Use this activity to ✔ show her how we use different types A pie chart (or circle graph) for different purposes. shows parts of a whole, as with Together, find a bunch of graphs the age ranges of people who use from newspapers and magazines. Cut the Internet. them out, and snip off the headlines and labels. Mix them all up. Now, ask about which types of graphs are used for your child to put them back together. As different kinds of data. she matches the headings and labels to the graph, she’ll learn When she finishes, take turns pointing out something you learned from the graphs. Your youngster might notice that the temperature suddenly dropped on Thursday, more people lis- See the ten to pop music than rock music, or that young adults use SCIENCE (surface) the Internet more than any other age group does. LAB She’ll be amazed at the information you can learn from a tension graph, especially if you use the right one for the job! Your youngster can combine a little water and soap to have a lot of fun with surface tension. You’ll need: Squared away eyedropper, MATH How can you tell when a rect- cup of water, CORNER angle is a square? Challenge your nickel, liquid child to find objects she thinks are squares—perhaps soap, towel picture frames, cheese slices, or sticky notes—and Here’s how: then do these tests to see if they actually are. Let your child use the eyedropper (or Test 1: Since squares have four equal-length sides, she needs to mea- drip water from his fingertip) to slowly sure all the sides with a ruler. Are they the same length? If not, it’s put water on the nickel, counting how not a square. If they are the same, she’ll move on to the next test. many drops it holds before the water washes over the edge. Have him dry off Test 2: A square’s four angles are all right angles. Suggest she use the corner of an the nickel, add a few drops of soap to index card for comparison. Do all the angles of the object match the corners of the the water, and repeat the experiment. card? If they do…she’s found a square! What happens? The nickel will hold Idea: Ask your child if she knows what the shape is if all four sides are equal but a surprising amount of regular water, the angles are not all right angles. Answer: a rhombus. but not nearly as much soapy water. Why? Water molecules are tightly stuck together, creating what’s called sur- Yes, I can! face tension. That’s what keeps the water Q from flowing over. Soap breaks apart the & Q: My son thinks he can’t do math Then, try this. Have your youngster water molecule bonds, decreasing the because he makes mistakes. How work one of his math homework prob- surface tension. A can I show him that he can suc- lems out loud for you. Going step by step, Real-world fact: This is why soap helps ceed in math? he’s likely to find where he got stuck. You might be able to ask him clean dishes. It breaks apart the water A: Here’s a simple idea that’s pretty questions that will steer him molecules so they mix with grease and effective: Whenever your son toward the answer, or he wash it off dishes. says things like, “I can’t…” could ask his teacher for or “I don’t understand…,” OUR PURPOSE help the next day. To provide busy parents with practical ways to add the word “YET.” You can Also, point out what he promote their children’s math and science skills. explain that that is what did understand, even if it Resources for Educators, learning is all about—adding a division of CCH Incorporated was only saying the prob- knowledge we don’t have “yet” 128 N. Royal Avenue • Front Royal, VA 22630 lem in his own words or 540-636-4280 • [email protected] as well as learning from mis- www.rfeonline.com doing the first step. takes we make. © 2016 Resources for Educators, a division of CCH Incorporated .
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