Summer Math Learning Packet Students Entering Grade 5

Get ready to help your child discover how this summer! Just like Math is All Around Us reading, regular practice over the summer with problem solving, computation, and math facts will maintain and strengthen the mathematic gains you made over the school year.

Inside you will find creative mathematics activities to explore at home. The goal is for you to have fun thinking and working collaboratively to communicate mathematical ideas. While you are working ask how the solution was found and why a particular strategy was chosen.

The packet consists of 2 calendar pages, one for July and one for August, as well as directions for math games to be played at home.

Literature and websites are also recommended to explore mathematics in new ways. We encourage you to complete at least 15 math days each month. Keep track of your math in a journal.

Grade 5 the highest product wins all the cards. Challenge: each person gets 4 Summer Math Ideas cards and multiplies a 2-digit number by a two-digit number. Math Tools You’ll Need:

2. Close to 1000 Deal 8 cards to each player. Use any 6 cards to make two 3-digit numbers. Try to make the sum close to or exactly 1000. For ex. You

combine 148 and 853 to make 1001. Your score is 1 because the

difference between 1001 and 1000 is 1. The lowest score after five rounds wins! DIRECTIONS: Do your best to complete as many of these summer math activities as Other games to play: Monopoly, Othello, Battleship, Connect Four, you can! Record your work in your math journal every day. In Mastermind, Mancala, Legos, K’Nex, Simon, Yahtzee September share your Math Journal with your second grade teacher. Each journal entry should: Fun Websites to Explore: ✓ Have the date of the entry ✓ Have a clear and complete answer ✓ Be neat and organized

Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry:

Cool Math Books to Read: Counting on Frank by Rod Clement A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School by Louis Sachar Divide and Ride by Stuart Murphy Lemonade for Sale by Stuart Murphy Games To Play (You will need a regular deck of cards)

1. Multiplication Compare Remove all the face cards from a deck of cards. The ace will equal 1. Deal out the cards equally between 2 to 3 players. Each player turns over 2 cards and multiplies the numbers together. The person with

July 2017 Entering Fifth Grade Mathematics Calendar Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 2 3 As of today, record the 4 5 6 Visit the website Read A Grain of Rice by Helena 7 8 Wins and Losses of the Red Play the game www.multiplication.com Sox this season. Estimate Pittman. Calculate how many Close to 1000. Choose some activities to have Read Lemonade for Sale the Wins and Losses at the grains of rice she will receive on (see directions) fun practicing multiplication. By Stuart Murphy. day 18. end of the season. Explain Record choices. Make a graph, by days of How many will she have the week of the number of your thinking to an adult. altogether? dogs you see each day.

9 10 11 12 13 14 Identify and classify 15 Visit the game room at Make a set of flash cards of Look at weather in the paper Play the Product Game at angles: acute (less than 90°) www.aplusmath.com multiplication facts. Practice across the nation. Look at the www.illuminations.nctm.org obtuse (greater than 90° ), Record what you played. your facts with a friend. highest temperature and the right (90°) in everyday lowest temperature, What is the difference between them? Record the strategy that you things (buildings, bridges, used. furniture…)

16 17 18 19 20 Read Divide and Ride by 21 22 Write down the names and Use 8 straight lines. How can Go to the website Stuart Murphy. How can 13 Play Multiplication prices of 5 cars you find in the you make 4 triangles and 2 www.setgame.com children be arranged on a park Compare. newspaper. Order the prices squares? Play and enter to win a prize! ride that seats 2, 3, 4, 5? How (see directions) from least to greatest. Round the prices to the nearest many kids are left waiting? thousand.

23 24 25 26 27 Find the area of your 28 29 Play a strategy game. What Make a paper airplane and PLAY BASEBALL at bedroom floor. What room in Write down the numbers strategy did you use? fly it. Measure how far it your house could have twice you see on 2 license plates. Would you use it again? goes. Try a few times. www.funbrain.com the area of your bedroom? Create 4 math problems Record distances in your Half the area of your room? with these numbers. journal. Check.

Challenge yourself

30 31 Make a dollar with 50 coins. What coins did you use? How many of each?

August 2017 Entering Fifth Grade Mathematics Calendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Estimate the following in 5 Would you rather have your Visit the website Draw a design using symmetry. inches: your height; length height be made of a stack of www.mathplayground.com and of your foot; distance from nickels or quarters, lined up play the logic games. your elbow to the tip of end to end? How much would your little finger. Measure you be worth? How did you do? to see how close you are.

6 7 Find a graph in the 8 9 10 11 Place a plastic bowl on 12 newspaper or on the Play Close to 1000. Play Concentration at Vowels are worth $50 each, the floor and stand 20 computer. Cut and paste it (see directions) www.illuminations.nctm.org consonants are worth $40. Can steps away. Toss a coin in into your journal. Write 3 Choose: fractions, face you make a word worth exactly the bowl and record how statements about the down. Draw pictures that $200? $600? many times it lands inside it. graph. represent some fractions. Express this as a fraction. Repeat.

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Play Fraction Game at Measure the perimeter of Flip a coin 25 times. Make a Write a word problem whose List some capital letters (E, www.illuminations.nctm.org two different windows in tally chart for how many answer is 154. Have someone F…) that have one pair of How many moves did it take your home. Find the times it lands on heads or solve the problem. parallel lines. Are there any to get all the red markers difference of the tails. Write a fraction for that have two pair of to the right side? Can you perimeters. your head and tail data. Try it parallel lines? beat your score? again. Were the results the same?

20 21 22 23 24 Go on a 3-D scavenger 25 26 Make the largest and Try a new activity at Survey 10 friends or relatives hunt. How many cylinders, Play the Product Game at smallest numbers you can www.coolmath4kids.com to find out their favorite pyramids, cubes, rectangular www.illuminations.nctm.org find using the digits 4, 1, 7, outdoor activity. Graph the prisms and cones can you find 8, and 2. Find their Challenge yourself. What did results. today? Organize your data. Record the strategy that difference and sum. you choose to do? you used.

31 27 28 29 30 Use a newspaper or YOU DID IT! Please bring your Have a scavenger hunt for Play a game. What strategy weather.com and record the journal to your fifth grade real-world examples of did you use? Would you use forecasted high temperatures teacher on the first day of parallel lines (ex. railroad that strategy again? for the next 5 days. What is school! tracks) the median for your data?

Create Your Own Summer Math Calendar! Grade _____

If the activities suggested don’t seem to “fit your child” or you have your own websites/literature/math practice you would like to do you can create your own math calendar. Feel free to substitute your own activities that better suit your needs or learning style. All we ask is that you document your created activities below. Remember: the goal is to complete 15 activities each month. You can certainly use this sheet to record more!

# Date Description of Math Activity Completed 1

Students’ name: ______

Parent’s Signature: ______