Do At Home Math - 3rd and 4th Grades
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Addition & Subtraction |
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Day 1 Create addition flash cards. Do them 20 minutes every day. |
Day 2 Write down your phone number, a friend's, your grandma's or grandpa's. Find the sum of each one. Which one is the greatest sum? |
Day 3 List 8 ways you can name 15 by using three different addends from numbers 1 through 9. One way is 1+5+9. You can put the addends in any order. |
Day 4 Write the fact family of addition and subtraction for these sums: 12, 8, 15, 6, 9. Example for 5: 2+3=5, 3+2=5, 5-2=3, 5-3=2 |
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Day 5 What is your favorite sports team playing right now? Find their win-loss record in the paper. What is the difference between how many games they played and how many they have lost? Do the same process for 5 other teams in the same league. |
Day 6 Do these problems in your head: 2+5-3+7+4-6= 6+8-5-1+9-5= 10-2+6-8+7-5= Now write 10 of your own problems. Have someone in your family solve your problems. |
Day 7 At the zoo there are 25 zebras, 15 bears, 18 penguins, and 84 students visiting. Write 3 problems using this information. |
Day 8 Write all the addition facts that have the same sum. Write the subtraction fact that matches the addition fact and are from the same fact family. |
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Day 9 Find a book with more than 150 pages. Open it to any page below 150. How many pages are there left to finish until you reach 150? Keep doing this over and over to practice subtracting. |
Day 10 The sum of 3 numbers is 23, all the numbers are different, each number is less than 10. What are the 3 numbers.
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Day 11 Using a pair of dice, roll them and add up the numbers. Write down these problems on a piece of paper. Now try it with three dice. |
Day 12 Take a deck of playing cards. Make the Jack worth 11, the Queen worth 12, and the King worth 13. Shuffle them and draw two cards. Add the two numbers together. Do this with a partner and see who can add the two numbers together the fastest. Try drawing three cards and doing the same thing. |
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Day 13 Find a newspaper advertisement. Make a list of three things that you would like to buy. Add up the cost of these three items together. Now find two different items and add them. Do this with different ads. Do this at the grocery store with two items that you want to buy. |
Day 14 Using dominoes, turn them all over so the spots don't show. Pick two dominoes and turn them over. Add the four numbers together. Have a partner check your addition. Do this over and over until the dominoes are used up. You can also write down your problems as you go. |
Day 15 How old will you be 7 years from today? How old will you be in the year 2002? How many years until you can get your drivers license? |
Day 16 You have 5 quarters, 4 dimes and 10 pennies. How many stamps can you buy if they cost 32 cents each? |
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Day 17 Look up letters on your phone dial at home and replace the letters in the words below with subtraction problems. Solve them with the numbers that you get. JUNE - MAY = _____________ BLUE - RED = _____________ MANY - FEW = ____________ GLAD - SAD = _____________ |
Day 18 Find three basketball scores from yesterday's games. What was the total number of baskets scored by the winners? What was the most points scored in one game? |
Day 19 What was the high temperature from yesterday? Find the temperature. How many degrees above freezing was the temperature? |
Day 20 Look at the letters on your phone dial at home. Replace the letters in these words with numbers and add up the numbers you get. ex. IT + WAS = 48 + 927 = 975 I + LIKE + YOU =__________ MAY + JUNE = __________ RED + BLUE =____________ FUN + MATH = ___________ Make up some word problems for others to solve. |
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Day 21 What 2 numbers have a sum closest to 50, to 70, to 20? (18,45,7,26,38,4) |
Day 22 Latoya has opened her math book to page 237 & 238. What is the sum of these 2 pages. |
Day 23 Find six baseball, football or basketball scores from the newspaper. What was the total number of points scored in each game? What was the average number scored? |
Day 24 How old will you be 14 years from today? Will this be in the next century? The next decade? What about 25 years from today? |
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Day 25 Which two numbers have a difference that's closest to 45?...59?....63? (73, 43, 5, 18, 11, 59) |
Day 26 Find a grocery store ad. Pretend to purchase a bag of groceries. List items that will total between $29 and $31. Get as close as possible to $30. |
Day 27 Sue has $25. Jack has $40. Sue saves $5 a week and Jack saves $2 a week. Will they ever have the same amount? How long would it take for Sue to catch Jack? |
Day 28 Use two die. Roll and add the numbers as fast as you can. Then subtract the smaller number from the bigger number. Challenge: use three or more dice to add. |