Do At Home Math - 3rd and 4th Grades
Patterns and Functions |
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Day 1 Cut out five colored pictures from your favorite magazine. Make a bar graph to show how many of the pictures have each of these colors: blue, purple, yellow, red, and green. |
Day 2 Write down the numbers counting by 2's to 50. Write down the numbers counting by 3's to 51. How many are the same? How many are different? What is the difference between the two totals? |
Day 3 Every finger and toe has a nail. Count by 5's to find out how many nails are in your family. Have a friend do the same. Which family has more nails? |
Day 4 Put another five rows on the bottom of this pattern. What is the last number in the fifth row?
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Day 5 Using die, find out how many times it would take you to roll an 11. After that, predict how many rolls it would take you to roll five 11's. Roll and find out if your prediction is correct. |
Day 6 Draw 5 candy bars. Show how you would split them between 7 people evenly. How would you split them between 3 people? |
Day 7 Write the next 3 numbers or letters from these patterns: 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, _____, _____, _____ A B C D, a b c d, A B C D, ________, ________, ________ 5, 1, 10, 2, 15, 3, 20, 4, _______, _______, ________ Write 3 patterns. Ask your parent give the next 3 letters or numbers of your patterns. |
Day 8 Write the numbers from 10-30, in a column. Down next to them in a column write the pattern 22, 24, 26, 22, 24, 26... Put in + signs and do the additions for each problem. |
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Day 9 Copy this pattern: 3 6 9 12 3 6 9 3 6 3 Add three more rows at the top. Now find the sum of all the numbers. |
Day 10 What comes next in each pattern? Explain your strategy for solving these. 25 and 13, 57 and 45, 36 and _____. 4, 12, 20, ____ |
Day 11 Make a chart of pizza toppings: extra cheese, green peppers, onion, mushrooms, pepperoni, sausage. Ask 3 family members their favorite toppings. Write 2 sentences that describe your data.
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Day 12 Keep track of how many minutes of TV you watch today and tomorrow. Ask 2 family members to do the same. Who has watched the most TV? By how many minutes?
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Day 13 Find a book that weighs about 1 pound. Ask 3 family members to balance the book on their head, and walk around until it falls off. Record the time in minutes and seconds. Chart the information. Who had the longest book balance, and by how many minutes. |
Day 14 Make a chart of the following geometric figures: square, circle, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid, hexagon, rhombus. Chart the number of sides, and angles of each figure. Write a true statement about the chart. |
Day 15 What numbers would come next in the patterns below. Make up some of your own when you have finished these. 6, 11, 16, _____, _____, _____, _____ . 9, 12, 15, _____, _____, _____, _____ . 14, 18, 22, _____, _____, _____, _____ . |
Day 16 Roll a pair of dice twenty times. Add the two numbers from the roll together. Make a chart using tally marks showing how many times you got each answer. (e.g., roll a 6 and a 4. 6 + 4 = 10) Make a tally mark by the number 10. |
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Day 17 On a piece of graph paper write your numbers from 1 to 100. Put the numbers in rows of 10. Look for patterns in the numbers. Can you find the numbers you would use if you were counting by 2's, 5's, 10's? Look for other patterns in the rows of numbers. |
Day 18 Tom got a job walking a dog for seven days. He made $1 the first day, $4 on the second day, and $7 on the third day. What did he make on the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh days? Make a chart to show how you got these answers. What would happen if he made $3 on the first day? Make a chart for that pattern. |
Day 19 Make a chart showing the number patterns for twos, threes, fours, etc. (e.g., 2, 4, 6, 8, etc; 3, 6, 9 etc.) |
Day 20 Write the numbers from 150 backwards. Circle all of the numbers you use to count by 10's and 5's. |
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Day 21 Add up the dates in the third full row of the calendar. See if you can think of a way to find the total in the next row without adding all seven numbers. |
Day 22 If you have 6 bags and each bag contains cookies, how many cookies would you have if each bag had 4 cookies? Take one out of each bag, now how many? Last, put 3 cookies back in each bag - now how many do you have? |
Day 23 An index card is 3" by 5". How many of these cards would it take to cover a 9" by 10" piece of construction paper? |
Day 24 Tear a piece of paper in half and give half to someone else. How many people will have a piece of paper after 10 rounds of tearing like this? Record on a chart. Look for patterns. |
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Day 25 Find the length and width of your bedroom to the nearest foot. What is the perimeter of the room? What is the area of its floor? Write your strategy for solving this problem. |
Day 26 Say your telephone number. Then write it down. Triple each digit. How many answers came out greater than 20? |
Day 27 Pretend you have 4 different US coins. What different amounts of money could you have? |
Day 28 Choose the correct operations. 18 __2, __ 5 = 25 4 __ 3,__ 2 = 24 26__ 19, __ 7 = 49 |
