Welcome to my very own math trail!
Let's take a tour around my neighborhood and explore the mathematics that make it all possible.
This trail was designed with the elementary school student in mind, check out my intermediate trail for more advanced problems.
Start at 1145 McClure Street and follow the arrow until we're back where we started.
Let's take a tour around my neighborhood and explore the mathematics that make it all possible.
This trail was designed with the elementary school student in mind, check out my intermediate trail for more advanced problems.
Start at 1145 McClure Street and follow the arrow until we're back where we started.
Let's Go Number
Munching!
Munching!
It must be recycling day!
1. If there are 8 bins of recycling per house and there are 24 houses per block, how many bins of recycling are there per block?
2. If your recycling is ⅜ plastic and ⅛ tin, what fraction of your recycling must be paper? Remember to reduce your fractions to lowest terms.
1. If there are 8 bins of recycling per house and there are 24 houses per block, how many bins of recycling are there per block?
2. If your recycling is ⅜ plastic and ⅛ tin, what fraction of your recycling must be paper? Remember to reduce your fractions to lowest terms.
3. If a big poster needs 7 staples, and a small poster only need 4, how many of each can you put up if you only have 27 staples left?
4. The poles circumference is 27inches, how many small posters can you fit around the pole if each one has a width of 18cm.
4. The poles circumference is 27inches, how many small posters can you fit around the pole if each one has a width of 18cm.
5. Take a close look at this apartment building, what kind of shapes do you see?
6. Look at the big triangles, what kind of triangles do you think they are?
7. If each apartment has one window, and there is the same amount of windows on every side, how many apartments are in this building?
6. Look at the big triangles, what kind of triangles do you think they are?
7. If each apartment has one window, and there is the same amount of windows on every side, how many apartments are in this building?
8. Take a close look at these pictures, locate any lines of symmetry
(don't forget that letters can have symmetry too).
(don't forget that letters can have symmetry too).
9. What kind of numbers are these?
10. If you went home right now and it took you 15minutes to get there, 21minutes to eat dinner and 70minutes to do your homework, will you still have time to catch your favorite television show?
11. Notice any symmetry in the clock design?
10. If you went home right now and it took you 15minutes to get there, 21minutes to eat dinner and 70minutes to do your homework, will you still have time to catch your favorite television show?
11. Notice any symmetry in the clock design?
12. In English we use some letter more than others, let's look at this sign and count each time we see a letter. Take a look at this chart that shows the frequency used of each letter in the English language.
13. If a tree in your yard is 36feet tall and you want to chop it up into 12 pieces, how big must each piece be? Use long division.
14. For every year of a trees life it leaves a ring like mark, estimate the number of rings with the help of your ruler on the cross section of the tree chunk, approximately how much older is the tree than you are.
14. For every year of a trees life it leaves a ring like mark, estimate the number of rings with the help of your ruler on the cross section of the tree chunk, approximately how much older is the tree than you are.
15. Can you predict what pattern comes next in the sequence?
16. If there are 3 rows of 8 spaces, how many cars fit in the parking lot?
17. If the parking lot is full, and each car showed up with 3 people, how many people are in the restaurant?
18. A typical "small car" parking space is 270 square feet, if the length of your car is 16feet and the width of your car is 13 feet, can you park in the small car space?
(hint: Area=Length x Width)
17. If the parking lot is full, and each car showed up with 3 people, how many people are in the restaurant?
18. A typical "small car" parking space is 270 square feet, if the length of your car is 16feet and the width of your car is 13 feet, can you park in the small car space?
(hint: Area=Length x Width)
19. If this bird feeder has 240 and each bird eats 4 seeds, how many birds can eat from this feeder before it runs out of seeds.
20. If Mary's butt is 14cm, Jacobs butt is 12cm, Donnas butt is 17cm, and Brads butt is 18cm and the bench is only 49cm long, which kids fit perfectly on the bench and who is left out? Try it out with your teammates
21. How old was Carolina when she passed away?
22. What year will it be when you are her age?
22. What year will it be when you are her age?
23. If Mary takes 10steps every 15seconds and the "ok to walk" man flashes red after 45seconds, how many steps can Mary take before she has to run across the road to make it safely.
24. How many squares can you find in this window?
25. How many triangles can you find in this window (without overlapping)?
26. What do you think the angle of each corner is?
25. How many triangles can you find in this window (without overlapping)?
26. What do you think the angle of each corner is?
27. How many friends can I invite to my super fun bike party if you can only have one bike per two bars on each side of the rack
28. If box "A" has 14 out of 20 newspapers left, box "B" has 18 out of 25 papers left and box "C" has 23 out of 30 newspapers, which newspaper is the most popular? which is the least? List them in ascending order.
29. If you received 25cents for delivering the total number of papers altogether, how much money would you have made?
29. If you received 25cents for delivering the total number of papers altogether, how much money would you have made?
30. What is the success ratio (reduced to lowest terms) of this poster if 3 out of 15 phone number tags were taken?
31. Write an equivalent fraction.
31. Write an equivalent fraction.
32. If the basketball hoop is 12feet high and you are 5feet tall with an arm length that is half your height, how high would you have to jump to slam-dunk the ball.
33. If there are 12 rectangles across the top of the gate and 10 rectangle along the side how many squares are there in total?
34. If each rectangle has a length of 3 and width of 2 what is the total area of the gate? Don't use a calculator, show your work.
34. If each rectangle has a length of 3 and width of 2 what is the total area of the gate? Don't use a calculator, show your work.
35. This building has many many shapes, how many shapes can you find here? Let's look!.
36. If the diameter of the garbage can is 40cm, what is its radius?
To find out the size of garbage bag we need, use the formula Circumference = π(radius)²
(hint: the π button is on your calculator)
To find out the size of garbage bag we need, use the formula Circumference = π(radius)²
(hint: the π button is on your calculator)
37. Which do you think will be more effort, taking the stairs or taking the ramp? Which is faster?
Count how many steps it takes to get up the ramp and how many steps it is from the bottom the ramp to the top of the stairs.
Do the results surprise you?
Count how many steps it takes to get up the ramp and how many steps it is from the bottom the ramp to the top of the stairs.
Do the results surprise you?
38.
a) What kind of triangle do you think this is?
b) Is it a golden triangle?
c) What is the measure of the missing angle?
d) Why do you think triangles are used for sandwich boards instead of squares?
a) What kind of triangle do you think this is?
b) Is it a golden triangle?
c) What is the measure of the missing angle?
d) Why do you think triangles are used for sandwich boards instead of squares?
39. Coca-cola advertises a 1 in 6 chance of winning a prize, if you buy 120 bottles of coke and only win 12 times are the odds close to what they advertise?
(hint: Reduce to lowest terms).
(hint: Reduce to lowest terms).
40. If this house number is 1151 and the next house over here is 1145, what do you think the next house number will be?
41. Return to our math-trail map and using the small distance measure in the bottom left corner and your ruler, estimate how far we walked.
Thanks for coming on my math-trail with me! Check out the 'mistakes and answers' section of my page to see a couple out-takes of my videos or check out my mini intermediate math-trail and if that doesn't tickle your fancy you can go fly a kite!
