Summer Math Resources 3-5

Quantile® Math@Home is a website full of free tools and family-friendly activities to support your child’s mathematics learning. With Math@Home, you can work with your child to practice specific mathematical skills and concepts at the right level of difficulty.

Tang Math Summer Challenge A fun and engaging math challenge using online games and books, designed to reinforce math skills during the summer break. Check out this Greg Tang math challenge for the summer. You can click these game boards for more information!

Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream by Cindy Neuschwander

The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

Math for All Seasons by Greg Tang

The $1.00 Word Riddle Book by Marilyn Burns

Fraction Fun by David Adler

The Best of Times by Greg Tang

Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money by Amy Axelrod

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

A Gebra Named Al by Windy Isdell

Math Curse by Jon Scieszka

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

Sir Cumference & the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference & the First Roundtable by Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference & the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference & the Sword in the Cone by Cindy Neuschwander

Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Guinness Book of Records by Time Inc.

Mathematicians are People Too by Luetta Reimer & Wilbert Reimer

Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream by Cindy Neuschwander

The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

Math for All Seasons by Greg Tang

The $1.00 Word Riddle Book by Marilyn Burns

Fraction Fun by David Adler

The Best of Times by Greg Tang

Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money by Amy Axelrod

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Games-Puzzles.aspx

https://www.funbrain.com/math-zone

http://www.aplusmath.com/

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/

http://www.gregtangmath.com/

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

http://bedtimemath.org

http://www.figurethis.org./index.html -(Multiple Language)

http://xtramath.org/- (Multiple Language)

• Everyday Mathematics- Addition Top It
• Everyday Mathematics- Beat the Computer,
• - Multiplication
• Everyday Mathematics- Divisibility Dash
• Everyday Mathematics, Equivalent Fractions
• Wuzzit Trouble
• Sushi Monster
• Deep Sea Duel
• Pizza Fractions 1
• My Times Tables
• Tony’s Fraction’s Pizza Shop
• Pearl Diver
• Lobster Diver
• Factor Samurai
• Fraction App by tap to Learn
• Dare to Share Fairly
• Long Division Touch
• Math Ninja HD
• Quick Math

Do you have board games or playing cards around the house? Playing games such as these rely on skills necessary for math. Click on the link to find out how you might use playing cards to strengthen math skills. Top It Card Games

These activities will help SC Third Grade students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.

• Which is larger, 2/3 or ¾? How do you know? Prove it.

• Masha had 120 stamps. First, she gave her sister half of the stamps and then she used three to mail letters. How many stamps does Masha have left?

• Try a new game at www.funbrain.com. Challenge yourself.

• Get a menu from a restaurant and add up what it would cost for your family to eat there.

• When rounding to the nearest ten, what is the smallest whole number that will round to 50? The largest? How many different whole numbers round to 50?

• Practice math facts in a fun way at the website www.multiplication.com. What games did you play?

• Compare the fractions below. Use the symbols >, =, or < to record your comparisons. Draw a picture to illustrate your answer. 2/6 and 5/6 1/2 and 1/3

These activities will help SC Fourth Grade students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.

• Write three facts about the number 28. Is this number prime or composite? How do you know? Round this number to the nearest 10.

• A lawn water sprinkler rotates 65 degrees and pauses. It then rotates 25 more degrees in the same direction. What is the total degree rotation of the sprinkler? To cover a full 360 degrees, how many more degrees will it move?

• Read A Grain of Rice by Helena Pittman. Calculate how many grains of rice she will receive on day 18. How many will she have altogether?

• Visit the website www.multiplication.com Choose some activities to have fun practicing multiplication. Record choices.

• Solve the riddle: I have 5 in the tenths place. I have 7 in the thousandths place. I have 4 in the ones place. I have 2 in the hundredths place. What decimal am I? Write your own riddle.

• Go to http://www.gregtangmath.com/. Choose some worksheets to complete.

• With a partner take turns scooping coins from a cup. Write the total in dollars and cents using decimal notation. Compare totals using <, >, or =. Take ten turns.

• Skip count by 5ʼs starting at 1. What patterns do you notice? Explain why you think these patterns are happening.

These activities will help SC Fifth Grade students reinforce their math skills outside of the classroom.

• With a partner, put 5 cards face up. Turn a 6th card, to be a Target Card. Each player uses the cards to make the Target Card #. All 5 cards must be used only once. Use +, -, x, and/or ÷.

• Use four 4ʼs to create problems that will equal 1-12. Remember to use the correct order of operations to solve your problems: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiply or Divide, Add or Subtract.

• 286,489 is an odd number. How many times greater is the 8 in the ten thousands place than the 8 in the tens place? Explain your thinking.

• .75 is the answer. What could the question possibly be? Challenge yourself to think of more questions.

• Express the number 50 in at least 25 different ways. Use all 4 operations and include fractions and decimals.

• Write an expression for:
  Add 2 and 4 and multiply the sum by 3. Next, add 5 to that product and double the result.

• Try a new activity at www.coolmath4kids.com. Challenge yourself. What did you choose to do?

• On Saturday 3/4 of a 5th grade class went to see a new movie. If 1/2 of the class went to the afternoon session, what fraction of the class went to the evening session?