Fun Activities You Can Try!
1st Activity: Math With FoodWhat you need
Fruit Loops A pair of dice Pencil & Paper Activity Addition: Get your child to roll the dice and write down the two numbers. For example, if a two and a six were rolled, write down the sum 2+6. Make two piles of the rolled numbers with the cereal (one pile of two and one pile of six) and get your child to count them out loud. So, count 1,2,3,4,5,6 then 7,8. Counting the pieces of cereal helps them add and come up with the correct answer. Multiplication: Get the child to roll the dice and write down the two numbers, so if a three and a five were rolled, write down the multiplication sum 3×5. Make two piles of those numbers with the chosen cereal. For example, when a three and a five were rolled, you would make either three groups of five or five groups of three. Count out each piece of cereal individually to get the answer. Subtraction: Roll the dice and write down your numbers again in sum form. So if a six and a two were rolled, you would write 6-2. Count out the largest number in cereal pieces. So in this case, the six. Get the child to take the smallest number (the two) of cereal pieces away from the pile of six cereal pieces. For example: If a six and a two were rolled, place six pieces of cereal in a pile, get the child to remove two of the cereal pieces and count what is left. Division: Start again by rolling the dice and getting two numbers. For instance, a two and a four. Take the highest number of cereal pieces and place in a pile. Make as many groups of the smallest number you can from the highest pile. For example: If four and two were rolled, you can make two groups of two. This tells us that 4 / 2 = 2. |
2nd Activity: Math With SportsIn the Olympic and Paralympic Games, medals are awarded for the best performances in each event. But what if we used different criteria for writing an alternative record book?
Investigate some of the questions below to write your own Alternative Record Book. You will need to do some research to answer these questions, and you will need to make some estimations and approximations. You may also need to refine the questions to make them more precise. If you can't determine an exact value for certain contexts, you could try to compute upper or lower bounds to allow you to compare. In which Olympic or Paralympic event does: A human travel fastest? How fast? An object travel fastest? How fast? An object travel highest? How high? A human expend the most calories? How many? A human react fastest? How fast? A human experience the greatest acceleration or deceleration? How much? An object experience the greatest forces, stresses or strains? How much? Can you think of any other categories to include in your Alternative Record Book? You may wish to do some experiments and create an Alternative Record Book for your own school and its athletes. |