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NEW! Your mission is to travel to Bangkok, Thailand, to help care for the elephants at the Elephant Sanctuary. Use math to tackle the challenges you face getting from one place to the next.
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Printable Activities
Fun! Easy! Related to real life! Yes, I am actually talking about math. Below are five games and activities available on the Math Can Take You Places Classroom Educators CD/DVD Toolkit.
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The Golf Game (1mb PDF)
Make your way down the fairway using multiplication and estimation without overshooting the greens.
Math Focus Area: Reasonableness
Recommended Grade Level: 4th-6th Grade
Total Trekkers (3.21mb PDF)
Use estimation to travel across the United States using addition, subtraction multiplication and division.
Math Focus Area: Reasonableness
Recommended Grade Level: 4th-5th Grade
Let's Make Ice Cream (84 kb PDF)
Make an individual portion of ice cream without using the exact measurement tools.
Math Focus Area: Equivalency
Recommended Grade Level: 5th-6th Grade
Lowest Score (1.4 mb PDF)
Achieve the lowest possible score by adding the remaining numbers.
Math Focus Area: Equivalency
Recommended Grade Level: 4th-6th Grade
Check It Out (5 mb PDF)
Use problem-solving and estimation keep a pretend checkbook balanced.
Math Focus Area: Problem Solving
Recommended Grade Level: 4th-6th Grade
Math Can Take You Places
After School Games and Activities
The hands-on Math Can Take You Places After School games are easy-to-read and fun for various group sizes in various settings, including practice time at home. Below are nine of the 28 total games and activities available in the Math Can Take You Places After School Kit.
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Math Can Take You Places After School Kit
Go Figure (147kb PDF)
Define, estimate, and investigate measurement while creating a model of a pro basketball player.
Math Focus Area: Measurement
Recommended Grade Level: 4th-6th Grade
Perimeter Kick (150kb PDF)
Kick a soccer ball to create a quadrilateral (four-sided figure) and calculate the perimeter of the shape.
Math Focus Area: Measurement
Recommended Grade Level: 5th-6th Grade
Dream Design (146kb PDF)
Plan the area arrangement for dream bedroom.
Math Focus Area: Problem Solving
Recommended Grade Level: 4th-6th Grade
Party Time (145kb PDF)
Use statistics and basic math skills to plan a party.
Math Focus Area: Problem Solving
Recommended Grade Level: 3rd-6th Grade
Picture This (213kb PDF)
Learn how to enlarge or reduce objects to scale, then enlarge and reduce our Rocket Kid logo.
Math Focus Area: Patterns
Recommended Grade Level: 3rd-6th Grade
Pattern Pull (150kb PDF)
Compete in a pattern relay with a final deciding game of tug-of-war.
Math Focus Area: Patterns
Recommended Grade Level: 3rd-6th Grade
Estimation Math Libs (143kb PDF)
Create silly word problems and then use estimation skills to solve them.
Math Focus Area: Range
Recommended Grade Level: 3rd-6th Grade
Fully Loaded (148kb PDF)
Calculate the maximum and minimum amount of money a person would need to build the vehicle of his or her dreams.
Math Focus Area: Reasonableness
Recommended Grade Level: 5th-6th Grade
Let's Make Ice Cream (155kb PDF)
Make an individual portion of ice cream without using the exact measurement tools.
Math Focus Area: Equivalency
Recommended Grade Level: 3rd-6th Grade
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