Activities and Fireworks for Numbers

March 18-22
The Phantom Tollbooth, Chapters 14-16
Workshop Activities
1. Craft – Symmetrical Art
2. Key Points – Mining for Numbers – types of numbers
3. Collaborative – Infinity - Möbius strip
4. Writing – Number Words
5. Math/Logic – Finding Zero Math Challenge
6. Genius Principle – Dodecahedron – 12 faces/emotions
7. Big Activity – Bowling for Numbers Math Game
8. Movement - Number Line Number Game
Minecraft Activities
Measuring chunks with decimals
Averages mini builds
Ratios experiment
Build challenge: famous mathematicians
Upcoming Events
Weekly teen hangouts in Santa Ana https://www.facebook.com/events/317560022131506/
Disneyland meetup: March 20 – Lands of Sight and Sound https://www.celebrationeducation.com/copy-of-theme
Field trips – Trips are currently being scheduled! New trips posted here: https://socalhomeschooladventures.com/product-category/field-trips/celebration-education-field-trips/
4/10 Celebration: Milo's Homecoming https://www.celebrationeducation.com/celebrations
Fireworks
Read through the fireworks and choose about five that you think might interest your child. Allow him or her to select 1-3 of them.
Compare and contrast King Azaz with the Mathmagician. Write down their similarities and differences.
Do some online timed tests: http://www.hoodamath.com/mobile/games/mathtimedtests.html
Starting from zero, figure out and write down the Fibonacci Sequence.
Drop an orange, an egg, and a watermelon. Discuss why the watermelon and egg break, but the orange does not?
Play some online math games:
http://www.adaptedmind.com/Math-Worksheets.html?type=mathaids8
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/monkeydrive/addition/MDAddDoubles.htm
http://www.coolmath.com/
Do some customized timed tests. Try to beat your own score.
http://www.math-aids.com/
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/add/
Play some math games:
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/15-math-games-15-minutes-or-less/
Play with dots cards: https://focusonmath.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/dot-cards-revisited/
Play some team-building math games: http://classroom.synonym.com/mathematics-teambuilding-activities-7912216.html#ixzz1FfsoIfj3
Experiment with falling objects (i.e. a rock and a feather) to determine which items fall faster than others when dropped simultaneously.
Write a Fibonacci poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fib_(poetry)
Write a musical composition.
Double or triple a recipe and determine the measurements accordingly.
Go here for math help: http://www.webmath.com/index.html
Make a list of math skills that