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Math in the Springtime

Math in the Springtime. Created by: Sydney Yandow, Gabrielle Mallioux, and Anna Vanyush. Do April showers bring May flowers?.

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Math in the Springtime

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  1. Math in the Springtime Created by: Sydney Yandow, Gabrielle Mallioux, and Anna Vanyush

  2. Do April showers bring May flowers? Does April really have mostly rainy days? Find out by creating a tally chart for the month of April. Create four rows on a large piece of paper and label the rows “sunny”, “cloudy”, “rainy”, and “snowy”. For each day, put one mark in the row that best describes the weather for that day. At the end of the month, count how many tally marks are in each column and compare to see if there really are mostly rainy days in April! *(NCTM Data Analysis)

  3. Mary, Mary quite contrary; how does your garden grow? Pick three different packages of flower seeds. Make a prediction of which type of flower you think will grow the fastest out of the three you chose. After planting your seeds, create a bar graph with centimeters on the y-axis and the names of the flowers on the x-axis on a piece of graph paper. Each square on the y-axis should represent one centimeter. Each day, measure your flowers with a ruler. For each centimeter the flowers grow, color one square above the corresponding x-axis label. At the end of three weeks, see which bar is highest. Was your prediction correct? *(NCTM Measurement and Data Analysis)

  4. To plant a garden, you need seeds! If you had $5.50 and went to the store and you bought 2 packages of sunflower seeds that were $.69 each, 3 packages of daisy seeds for $.33 each, and 3 packages of black eyed susan’s for $.84 each, how much money do you have left? *(NCTM Number and Operations)

  5. To plant a garden, you also need soil! If your garden was 3 feet by 6 feet, and the bags of soil at the store cover an area of 10 square feet, how many bags should you buy? *(NCTM Geometry and Numbers and Operations)

  6. I need to buy flower pots for the plants I will buy. If I bought 1 pot for $3.95, one pot for $5.99 and one pot for $7.50, how much money would I spend? *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  7. “A rose by any other name would smell so sweet” The rose is one of the most popular flowers to plant in the springtime. If I bought 2 rose bushes for $9.95 each, how much money would I pay for them? Would I have enough money if all I brought with me was a $20 bill? *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  8. May Flowers In the spring, many flowers are beginning to grow. Out of the following flowers: tulip, daffodil, or crocuses- which one is your favorite? Which do you think will be the most favorite in the class? Graph the class results. Was your prediction correct? (NCTM Data Analysis)

  9. Springtime in Vermont In Vermont, springtime means maple sugaring season. If 40 gallons of sap create 1 gallon of maple syrup and a maple sugaring house collected 1200 gallons of sap, how many gallons of maple syrup would they make? *(NCTM Number and Operations)

  10. Don’t put all your eggs into one basket! One aspect of springtime for Christian religions is the celebration of Easter. A common activity that occurs on Easter is an Easter Egg Hunt! If you have a basket that can hold 25 Easter eggs, and you found 4 pink Easter eggs, 3 blue Easter eggs, 12 green Easter eggs, and 7 yellow Easter eggs, will all of them fit in your basket? *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  11. If I went on an Easter egg hunt with my brother and sister, and my brother found 17 eggs, my sister found 23 eggs and I found 16 eggs. How many eggs did we find altogether? If we divided them among ourselves, would we each be able to have the same amount? *(NCTM Number and Operations)

  12. Come out, come out wherever you are! Springtime means that many animals come out from hibernation. One such animal is the grizzly bear and when grizzly bears wake up, they are hungry! If 2 grizzly bears ate equal amounts of berries from 4 bushes which each had 35 berries on them, how many berries did each bear eat? Could you eat that many berries? *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  13. “Walking on Sunshine” In the spring, many people start taking walks outside because the weather is nicer. If you walked for 60 minutes and it takes you 20 minutes to walk 1 mile, how many miles did you walk? *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  14. Spring Break Many people go on service trips during Spring Break, and often these service trips entail home repairs. If you had to paint two walls, each 8 ft. by 10 ft. and the paint cans at the store can cover 60 square feet each, how many cans of paint will you need to buy? *(NCTM Geometry and Numbers and Operations)

  15. Spring Break On Spring Break, I am building a section of a fence that is 6 feet long. If the boards I am using are each 4 inches wide, how many boards will I need to do the whole length of the section of fence? *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  16. Spring Cleaning I am cleaning my sewing room, putting all of my thread into baskets. If I have 130 spools of thread, and the baskets that I bought can each fit 15 spools of thread in them. How many baskets would I need to use to fit all of the thread? (If the answer is a decimal, round up!) *(NCTM Numbers and operations)

  17. Spring Forward! On the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks ahead. This makes the days seem longer. The days are not actually getting longer, but we are “saving daylight” by switching the clocks ahead so we are awake while it is daylight more. The time the sun rises and sets is constantly changing on a daily basis. Record the time the sun rose and will set today. Make a prediction of when it will set in one week, and then in one month. Make a calendar with the days of the month laid out, and space to write the time of the sunrise and sunset on each day. Were your predictions correct? If not, what were the actual times the sun rose and set? *(NCTM Data Analysis)

  18. The May Pole above is 7 feet high with a radius of 1 inch. If there are 5 children with 42 feet of ribbon how many times around the pole could each child go if they wrap the 1 inch thick ribbon around the pole so that both sides of the ribbon touch, but do not overlap one another? Will they have enough strands of ribbon to cover the entire pole? Spring Fun! *(NCTM Measurement)

  19. Today the weather was perfect for flying a kite so Emily decided to figure out how high her kite could fly. The triangle below has two 45 degree angles and one 90 degree angle. Emily let out 144 feet of string and the kite landed straight down from where is in this picture, 49 feet away from her. Can you figure out how high Emily’s kite is flying? Spring Fun! *(NCTM Geometry)

  20. My family is planning a trip to go visit the gang in Disney World this spring. To practice my math I asked my mom if I could help her come up with the total expenses for our trip. She told me each dollar amount and it was my job to add everything up. Hotel Room $240.00 per night Rental Van $79.00 per day Flight Round Trip $259.00 Food $50.00 per day Amusement Park $ 44.00We will be in Florida for 7 days and 6 nights. Now the totals need to be multiplied each by the appropriate number of days or nights. Next step, there are 5 people in my family so the flight, food, and amusement park prices need to be multiplied by 5. The food and amusement park prices need to be multiplied again by 7 for the number of days we will be in Florida. What is the total cost of our vacation? Spring Vacation *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  21. We are staying in Disney for 7 days and each day we will spend about 8 hours going to the rides. On average we will wait in line for 10 minutes. The rides last 5 minutes and we will have 2 minutes of travel time walking in between each ride. About how many rides will we get to ride this week? Spring Vacation *(NCTM Numbers and Operations)

  22. I am planting a garden along my walkway. On each side of the path there are flowerbeds that are 2 feet by 31 feet. The garden center manager said the plants need 3 inches around them and each plant is 3 inches both length and width. I want to have 7 inches on each end of the flowerbeds with no flowers so we don’t trample the flowers to get to the yard. How many rows can I plant in my flower bed? Also, how many flowers will I need? Spring Gardening *(NCTM Measurement)

  23. Spring Treats Today we are making chocolate covered peanut butter eggs. To make these we will mix up the following ingredients (except the chocolate) take spoon fulls of the batter and shape them in to eggs. After freezing them for an hour we will dip the in our melted chocolate and decorate them. The recipe below is enough for 16 eggs:1 box of confectioners' sugar1 cup creamy peanut butter¼ cup butter1 tablespoon milk8 (1 ounce) squares semi-sweet chocolate1 tablespoon shorteningContinue to Part II

  24. Spring Treats: Part II I want to use as much of the ingredients that I have to make as many batches of 16 eggs as I can. This is how much of each ingredient we have: 55 ounces of confectioners' sugar15 cups creamy peanut butter10 sticks of butter1 gallon of milk4 boxes of semi-sweet chocolate squares1 tub of shortening Here is a conversion chart to standardize the measurements into ounces: 16 ounces in a box of confectioners' sugar18 ounces in a creamy peanut butter jar - 8 ounces in a cup2 ounces in a stick a of butter – 8 ounces in a cup128 ounces in a gallon of milk - .5 ounces in a tablespoon16 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate squares per box16 ounces in a tub of shortening - .5 ounces in a tablespoon How many wholes batches of 16 eggs will we be able to make with these ingredients? How many egg will we have? After making our batches of chocolate peanut butter eggs how much of each ingredient will we have left over? (use fractions i.e. ½ jar of peanut butter) ) *(NCTM Measurement)

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