MATH

Posted by Denilya Barrett

Math Activities

How to Spend $1,000,000

Part 1
How would you spend $1,000,000? Students are asked this question and given a record sheet to keep track of their spending. Students may use magazines and store websites to find items they would like to purchase.
Here are the complete directions.
Here is the recording sheet.

Part 2
Become a forensic accountant and figure out where Ms. Barrett cheated on spending her $1,000,000 and find out how much she had to steal from the school to pay it off!
Here are the complete directions.
Here is the recording sheet.

Interactive Word Sort

Place Value
  • Print out the place value cards The number of copies you need will depend on the number of teams you need to create. If you are doing more of the places then you will have larger teams and need less copies. If you're only doing a few of them (for example, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands) then you will have smaller teams and will need to copy more sets of those cards.
  • Line students up and hand each one a card so that they are standing in the correct order.
  • Split the class into teams.
  • Shuffle the cards and randomly hand them out, face down so that each member of the team has one. Each team will have their own set of cards. The students may not look at their card when you hand them out.
  • When you say go the students may look at their cards.
  • The students must then correctly organize themselves.
  • When a team is ready, they all hold up their cards. Freeze the game and check their work. If they are correct then they get a point, if not then unfreeze the game and keep playing.
  • Cards can be resorted and the game and be replayed until you're sick of it.

Variation
This game can be played with any set that can be organized from least to greatest. For example, measurements (milimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, kilometer).