Category Archives: Activity

The grocery store may not be an ideal place for kids right now, but we can certainly plan a menu and create a shopping list.  What will your dinner meal cost?  Shaws and Hannaford often send out flyers – check out the … Continue reading →

For easy early statistics instruction, look no further than the weather app on your phone or your local news station. Talk about predictions based on data and how meteorologists forecast the weather. Extend the learning by having kids create their own weather … Continue reading →

Take a poll (survey) and ask “How many people have you helped this week?”  How would you organize this data?  How would you measure this?  How could you display your results?  

Make some price tags and mark things around the house.  For parents, it might be interesting for your student to make the price tags and see if they have a sense of what things cost. Let’s build some financial sense…. … Continue reading →

Feels like spring is in the air, how about getting outside?  You could set up an obstacle course or fitness track with different stations (jumping jacks, sit ups, squats, planks, …) At each station, set up goals (time for 1 … Continue reading →

Using old magazines or newspapers, make a collage of the math items you find. Bar Graph Line Graph Polygons (name them) A number written out in word form Clock Date Fraction A price that include dollars and cents. Decimal Parallel … Continue reading →