Today’s resources will help kids make beautiful circle art; use “play money” to practice how to shop for groceries, pay for food at a restaurant, or buy items at a store; use different strategies to help visualize multiplication; add fractions and decimals on the vertical number line; and explore how math is used in fashion.
Math, Art
Craft Activity: Create Geometric Circle Art
Can a circle be created from a series of straight lines? The answer is yes! Odd Squad agents frequently use geometry to crack tough cases, but shapes are more than tools for the job. In this activity, your child can make beautiful circle art using a ruler to draw straight lines.
KSPS Making Cents: Student Loans
When it comes to paying for college, it’s important to borrow only as much you need and start paying it back as soon as you can.
Storybook: Swim, Duck Swim!
Christie Onzay, a Librarian at the Spokane County Library District, reads Swim, Duck Swim! by Susan Lurie.
PreK-2: Sesame Street Play Money
Children may pretend to shop for groceries, pay for food at a restaurant, or play store. Make several copies for children to color. Help them cut out the play money and use it for their dramatic-play activities. The possibilities are endless!
Grades 3-5: Khan Academy Introduction to Multiplication
Students will use arrays and repeated addition to visualize multiplication.
Grades 6-8: Adding Fractions and Decimals from 0 to 1 on the Vertical Number Line
In this interactive, use logic to solve riddles involving flea circus high jumps. Numbers are randomized so that you can answer riddles and place fleas on the number line multiple times. The accompanying classroom activity includes a fraction/decimal concept review and a response sheet to support the online work.
Grades 9-12: Math in Fashion
Following a profile of fashion designer and Project Runway winner Chloe Dao, students are prompted to alter garment designs, using their sense of style combined with their math skills to hit target price points. Algebra concepts explored include: linear relationships; rates (percents), ratios, and proportions; using multiple representations; algebraic and numeric expressions, equations, and inequalities.
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