Do At Home Math - 3rd and 4th Grades
Number Sense |
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Day 1 Each consonant is worth a dime. Each vowel is worth a quarter. What is the value of the names in your family? Who's name is worth the most? Try this with other words! |
Day 2 Write the following numbers using words. 79, 501, 253, 86. |
Day 3 Use the four digits 9, 6, 7, and 2 to make as many two-digit numbers as you can. Add two two-digit numbers together. What is the biggest sum you can make? How many problems can you create? |
Day 4 Find the 3 numbers: the sum of the numbers is 21. All 3 numbers are different and all numbers are less than 10. |
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Day 5 Estimate the length of all these items. Put them in order from shortest to longest. Your dad, you, your television, your shower, dining room table, garbage can. |
Day 6 Write a number for each place value in the tens, hundreds, thousands, hundred thousands, and millions in words and numbers. |
Day 7 Write down the birth dates of everyone in your family. How many different numbers can you make with a person's birth date? Who has the most numbers? Who has the least? |
Day 8 Make a chart of the cost of gum for 1-10 packages. Each package costs 27 cents. Do the same thing if the gum costs 32 cents. |
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Day 9 A sucker costs 7 cents less than the gum (see day 8 activity). How much would 3 packages of gum and 7 suckers cost? How about 6 of each? |
Day 10 Begin with one. Write down the numbers as you count by fours until you get bigger than 44. Do the exact same thing as you count by sevens. Circle the numbers that are in both lists. |
Day 11 Find how many days and months until your next birthday?
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Day 12 If you have a bag of Skittles, predict how many pieces will be in your bag. Sort your candy by color, how many of each color do you have? Make a chart showing your data. |
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Day 13 Think of your favorite song. Sing the song to yourself, instead of singing the words/syllables, replace them with numbers, starting with 1. For example "Twin-kle, twin-kle lit-tle star" would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and so on. Write the total down. Now sing another song and write down it's total. How many more numbers does your highest song have? |
Day 14 Place the following numbers in order from smallest to largest: 523, 375, 279, 853, 924, 301. Which number is closest to 300? What strategy did you use to order your numbers? |
Day 15 Write the numbers from 1 to 40. Circle all of the even numbers in red. Circle all of the numbers that you would use to count by twos in blue. Find the numbers you would use to count by fives and put an X on them. Find other numbers that you can circle in groups. |
Day 16 Count how many months until you have your next birthday? How many days would that be? How many weeks until that day? Find the number of years since you were born. How many of them are even years and how many of them are odd? |
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Day 17 Look in your kitchen cupboards. Count how many things are in cans. How many things are in boxes? How many are in packages? What else is in the cupboards that you can count? |
Day 18 Look at a calendar. How many weeks until the next holiday? How many days is that? How many days are there between Thanksgiving and Christmas? |
Day 19 Circle the amount which is more in each group of things below. 3 dozen or 42 things 2 weeks or 15 days 2 days or 40 hours 1 year or 265 days |
Day 20 Write the numbers that are 11 more and 11 less than the following numbers. _____, 22, _____ _____, 45, _____ _____, 16, _____ _____, 57, _____ _____, 91, _____ |
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Day 21 How many letters are in your whole name? How many letters are in the names of each member in your family? How many letters does that make altogether? |
Day 22 Count the number of shoes each family member has by pairs. Make a graph showing how many pairs each family member has. Who has the most? Now do pairs of socks. |
Day 23 Write your zip code. Now write it backwards. Put in commas and read the two numbers aloud. Which is bigger? Subtract the smaller from the larger. |
Day 24 Write the numbers that are 105 more than and 95 less than each of these numbers. ____, 200,____ ____, 1015,____ ____, 865,_____ ____, 479,_____ |
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Day 25 Practice writing these number words by unscrambling the following: wytnet, vseen, inne, ghite, tyxsi, steeveen, wetlev, dudrhen |
Day 26 Survey at least six people. Do they like pizza? Tacos? Hamburgers? Sub sandwiches? Make a column chart to show your answers. |
Day 27 Find the missing digits represented by the a,b,c,w,x,and y. check by doing the problem with your solutions.
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Day 28 Using this number 235,986 What number is in the 100's place? In the 10's place? In the ten thousand's place? In the thousand's place? In the hundred thousand's place? In the one's place? |
Bonus Activity:
Do you remember...... 49 divided by 7? ... 5x6? ...how many pints in a quart? ...days in a year?...in a leap year...quarters in $6........people in a trio?........the length of a football field?......innings in a baseball game?