Math Monday: Symbols and Zero

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January 28, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We had trouble last time we had word problems. The girls read them and didn’t know whether to add or subtract. So now the girls have this handy dandy chart in their math journals to help them decipher the words in context.

My SIL pinned this math symbols chart. Perfect!

I thought the girls would like this pattern activity (scroll down to box#8). I admit I lost way too much perusing her site and subsequent links and downloading all these fun mathtivities for later!

The girls loved making these Zero the Hero posters.

Princess dresses help Kate do her best during school time.

Then, we watched Schoolhouse Rock DVDs.

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Math Monday: Nursery Rhymes

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January 7, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Nursery Rhyme math to coincide with our nursery rhyme readings in history! Most nursery rhymes originated during the Middle Ages and Renaissance to help teach lessons to children.

I got this journal free from a TpT shop. She must’ve taken it down now. She has lots of other fun printables though!

We talked the math problems through and they helped me figure it out. I wrote it on the board and they copied it on their papers.

This one is Humpty Dumpty’s men. Five men…how many fingers did they have to help Humpty Dumpty?

The finished page…drawing…words…equation

Music Math!

Dad taught the count of the musical notes and helped them through counting their notes on these fun math pages.

8th notes…counting by twos. they enjoyed having something different in math.

Check it out here…Early Math with Mozart!

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Multiplication Unit

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December 4, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We got some fun living math books from the library.
We really enjoyed this mathy art book about all the things a square can be turned into. It reminds me of the Brown Bear books at the end. It combines art and math and creativity! We loved it. Happy Square.

A math mystery. All the numbers disappeared and the detective had to find them so we could count, tell time, pay for things, know when our birthday is, etc. We need numbers everywhere!

We’re working along in our Life of Fred Apples book. I can’t even begin to tell you how much we love Fred. We’re on fractions and time in our Singapore 1B math workbooks.

We made our own flashcards on note cards. The kids filled in a multiplication chart. They use those to help with their work for years.

The girls love skip counting. Doing math charts outside is fun.

We reviewed a few multiplication facts. I think these pages helped them grasp the concept. Food always helps us do that. Many of the themes were ice cream or cake! Also look for flashcards at the same link. We’re starting those soon.

Katie was rockin her Disney princess Snuggie during school time.

At first, they thought they needed their skip counting cards to help. Then it clicked! We just started.

The girls are in 1st grade. I printed the 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. I think we’ll move on to the others next week!

Tori wanted to show me her page when she got excited by that light bulb moment!

The girls love math and fight over which book or activity to do first. They want to do Singapore, Life of Fred, and math notebooking every day. I love it.

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Thanksgiving Turkey Fractions Math

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November 15, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Tori is rather obsessed with turkeys, as it is.

She cannot wait until hunting season. We have a friend who is willing to take her to hunt turkeys. I don’t know where she got this idea, but it has persisted for more than a couple years now.

So, when I saw these, I just knew. She loves it!

3 part matching fractions cards. with turkeys!

Tori is reading the number words to make sure they match up with her fraction numbers and pie picture.

Here’s the set-up.

I did help by sorting the cards into three piles. She already completed the match for 1/3. She’s reading the cards for 2 1/2. The orange cards are challenge cards. She did those first, of course. Tori completed all the card matches and then copied the number words and fraction numbers onto her page.

Tori is transferring the words and fraction numbers onto her paper.

The pie pictures already match – to help. She matched the cards all up with very little trouble. I was impressed!

I found the Turkey fractions game here.

Here’s a freebie – fun turkey fraction craft . I have it all printed out. I hope to do it later this week.

We’re working on lots of fun Thanksgiving books and activities this month.

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Math Monday: Skip Counting

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November 5, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

When I was at a writing conference, Dad did school and for math, the girls just worked in their Singapore math books.

That’s why there wasn’t a math Monday post last week. And I was still recovering from jet lag.
That’s just fine though. Way to keep it simple!
We did some easy review and fun work.
The girls completed the 5s skip counting mazes.

The girls love Do-A-Dot Rainbow Art Set for mazes!

They cut out, sorted, and pasted 2D and 3D geometric shapes.

The girls have a great number notebook and we do a couple pages each week. Here’s the board with the information they copy. It really helps them to see the number in different forms: tallies, equations, base ten, and domino patterns. They learn to spell the words too!

We’re continuing with our Life of Fred Apples and Singapore math 1B. In mathbooking, we plan to focus more on time and money this month for mastery.

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Pumpkin Math

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October 15, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We did this fun pumpkin math with candies.

The pages are part of this pack: Simple Schooling Autumn Fun Pack (which I can no longer find anywhere).

M&M math:

We figured area and perimeter!

They just traced the picture with candies for perimeter and filled in the pumpkin for area.

First, the girls placed M&Ms around the outside of the pumpkin to measure perimeter.

Tori is saying 42. They both got 42 for perimeter.

And it’s the meaning of everything. sigh

Then they covered the pumpkin picture for area.

Extend the activity:

Estimate and Measure the height and width of real pumpkins with a tape measure.
Estimate and Measure the circumference of real pumpkins with a tape measure.
Calculate the diameter and radius – using the circumference measurement.
- d=C÷3.14 (3.14 is otherwise known as π or pi)
- r=d÷2
Estimate and weigh pumpkins before and after cleaning out the seeds to make jack o’ lanterns.
Estimate and count the seeds.
Dissect the seeds.
Measure the shell thickness.
Count the vertical lines on the sides of the pumpkin skin. These numbers can be used to calculate:
- Fractions – “1/2 of the pumpkin is equivalent to 8/16”
- Percentages – “What percentage of the pumpkin is equivalent to 4/12?”
- Degrees – “If a full circle is 360°, how many degrees is 1/8 of the pumpkin?”
Measure the volume of the pumpkin using water displacement.
Compare pumpkin measurements if you have several. Make graphs.
Test gravity by dropping pumpkins from different heights.
Make your favorite pumpkin recipes!

Fall Chalk Pastels has a great pumpkin art project!

We also completed our reviews in Singapore math 1B and worked on Life of Fred math lessons this week.

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Math Monday: Fractions

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October 8, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We did so many fun math activities this week!

We measured our hands and feet and school items with a pumpkin ruler. We got this fun activity from a Simple Schooling Autumn Fun Book.

We worked on our reviews in Singapore Math 1B.

Now I know we need to really work on multiplication tables. It’s a new concept and they just don’t get it yet.

We went through a living math book called Fraction Fun. It had great activities to bring fractions into everyday life.

We made pizza fractions from paper plates. We know we want the big slice!

We used red, green, and blue to represent 1/8, 2/8, and 3/8.

We weighed coins, tissues, and pencils.

We made fractions out of the measurements. 20 tissues weigh 1 ounce so 1 tissue is 1/20 of a ounce.

We graphed equivalent fractions. We drew blocks of 1/2, 2/4, and 4/8 to show they were the same.

Spider and bat rings sure help.

We’re following up this week with some more fractions work involving pizza and pumpkins. We’re going to really work on money values over the next month too.

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Math Monday: Hopscotch

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October 1, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We did math outside since it was such lovely weather!

We used our Twister Hopscotch rings and chalk to group and worked on multiplication.

Tori listened well and read the table I wrote. She drew flowers in her rings to represent the numbers.
$Hopscotch Math$
Katie went one step further: she copied out the multiplication table!

Even Alex wanted to get in on it!
$Preschool Math Play$

Liz brought her books out and sat on the plasma car to complete her work!
$Math Work$
A constant distraction last week and probably for months to come: dump trucks and bulldozers as a new house is being built. They’re just digging the basement now. The dump truck drivers honked their awesome horns at in the driveway each. time. they. drove. by.

The girls measured trees with little apples.

Here is September’s math calendar page. The girls chose two colors and grouped the chips.
$Cookie Mouse Math Page$

The girls each chose brown and blue chips.

We’re continuing with Life of Fred and Singapore math for Tori and Katie. Liz finished her Life of Fred Fractions book! She’s on Decimals now.

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Math Monday: Food Shapes

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September 24, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

So sorry we missed the math Monday post last week. I was recovering from flu mist, apparently. Anyway, we had an easy week of life school, unschooling, whatever you want to call it, since I didn’t feel well.

We read some more living books.

We did some fun activities that I found on Pinterest.

Food shapes math!

I love this printable chart and the girls had great fun!

She has suggested foods for the shapes. We had different crackers and candies that represented different geometry shapes. {I didn’t have any cheese balls so we used M&Ms, work with me here!}

$Food Math$ $Graham Cracker Math$
And the best part? Snacks after the page is completed!

I downloaded a fun math pack from The Moffat Girls. Some of it was beneath the girls now that they’re oh so grown up, but they still love the dice games! On this one, they only used one die. Tori won.

Domino addition is another fun game that they could do on their own while I was busy planning our next activity, cleaning up, or working with Alex and Tot School.