Do At Home Math - 3rd and 4th Grades
Multiplication and Division |
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Day 1 Create flash cards for the multiplication facts. Do them 20 minutes every day. |
Day 2 Joan and Gail are sisters. Joan is 6 years older than Gail. If you multiplied their ages, your product would be 27. How old are Joan and Gail? |
Day 3 Do these problems: 2 x 8 divide 4 x 9 divide 6 x 8= 3 x 3 x 4 divide 9 x 5 divide 4= 15 divide 3 x 2 divide 5 x 8 divide 4= Create 10 problems. Have your mom or dad solve your problems. |
Day 4 You started a lawn mowing business last summer. If you earned $5 for every lawn you mowed, and you mowed a lawn on every odd numbered day in July, how much money did you earn? |
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Day 5 Rewrite these problem with the correct operations (x, divide). 6__2__8 = 24 9__4__6 = 6 3__5__3 = 45 Create five problems. Solve them with your mom and dad. |
Your family has 3 dogs, 5 cats, 2 hamsters, and 9 fish. Write four story problems using this information. Have someone in your family solve them. Are they correct? |
Day 7 Write down all the multiplication facts that have the same product. Write the division facts that match each multiplication fact. |
Day 8 Use these 4 digits, 1, 3, 5, and 7, to make a multiplication problem with the largest possible answer. What is your strategy for solving this? |
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Day 9 Write down your phone number. Multiply the first 3 digits times the last 4. Now add your phone numbers. Is the product or the sum larger? |
Day 10 How many buttons do you have if each basket contains 12 buttons, and there are 6 baskets? How many would you have if 2 buttons are removed from each basket? |
Day 11 Place the following numbers in order from smallest to largest: 23 x 3, 905 divided by 3, 462 x 2, 159 divided by 5. |
Day 12 Take your resting pulse for one minute. Multiply that number by 10, 100, 1000. Now divide them by 2.
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Day 13 Write 4 of your own multiplication problems, using triple-digit and single-digit numbers. |
Day 14 Multiply 36 by 42, then reverse the order of the numbers and multiply 63 by 24. Write a true statement about your answer. |
Day 15 Use a deck of playing cards. Take out the face cards. Shuffle the cards and turn them face down in a pile. Draw two cards and multiply the two numbers together. You can do this with a partner too. |
Day 16 Multiply the number of cars at three houses on your street by four to find out how many tires they have. How about at 5 houses on your street? Try your house and the house next door. Do as many as you want to find out the number of tires on your street. |
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Day 17 Multiply the number of people who live in your house by two to find out how many hands there are. Multiply the number of people by ten to find out how many fingers. Multiply the number of people by twenty to find out how many fingers and toes. |
Day 18 Count the number of pairs of shoes each family member has. How many shoes does that make? Count the number of pairs of socks. How many socks? Try gloves. |
Day 19 Take a set of dominoes and turn them all over so the spots are not showing. Turn one over. Multiply the number of spots on one end of the domino by the number of spots on the other end. Write the problem down on paper with the answer. |
Day 20 Write three division problems with a quotient of three. Write two division problems with a quotient of four. Try writing three division problems with a quotient of six. |
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Day 21 How many nickels make a quarter? How many dimes make fifty cents? |
Day 22 How many nickels make 35 cents? How many pennies make a dime? Write a problem down on paper for each of these. Now using money, make up some problems of your own. |
Day 23 Which letter is the 14th letter of the alphabet? Write a fraction - "letters before M" over "letters after K." Reduce it. Do the same for "F." |
Day 24 Which dates in January can be divided by two equally? Make a table from 1 to 30 and write Yes or No. If yes, tell how many would be in each group. |
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Day 25 Grab a handful of small objects that are the same. (macaroni, beans, pennies, rice) Guess how many you have, then count them. Try dividing them into groups of 2, 3, 4, and 5. Which group sizes have extra? |
Day 26 In the neighborhood, there are 6 houses. Four of the houses have 8 people each. The others have 5 people and 2 dogs each. How many people are there in all? |
Day 27 Find three pairs of numbers below that have a product of 48. Make four of your own problems that multiply to 60. 6, 16, 8, 4, 3, 2, 7, 24. |
Day 28 For dinner each person needs a fork, a spoon, a knife, a plate, a glass and a napkin. If all of your family is there, how many things do you need to put on the table. What if you were setting the table for 8,or 10, or 9 or 6? |
Bonus Activity:
How many weeks until the next Thanksgiving? Try this: about 1/2 of a turkey is waste. How many ounces can each person in your family eat from a 15 lb. turkey?
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