Family Math Fun for December 2009 / Choose which activities you want to do with your family at home.
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday
1
How many centimetres of snow do you predict will fall in December? / 2
2 / 5 / 6 / 7
- / 1 / 6 / 4 / 9
1 / 1 / 2 / 2
What were they thinking? / 3
True or False?
7 + 7 + 7 + 7 = 2 x 14
How do you know? / 4
30 x 4 = 18 + ___
How do you know your answer makes sense? / 5 6
Put the following numbers in order from least to greatest.
1.250, 12.50. 0.125, 125
7 8
Construct a pentagon that meets the following conditions:
-  exactly one line of symmetry
-  2 right angles
Can your pentagon look any other way? / 9
1m34cm
90 cm
223 cm
Which measurement is the longest? How do you know? / 10

What will this shape look like after a 90 degrees rotation? / 11

Which rectangle has the greatest perimeter? / 12
Hanukkah
/ 13
This is a square.
Do you agree or disagree? Justify your thinking.
14 15

If this pattern continues, how many circles will be in the 27th term? / 16
Describe the following pattern.
1, 2, 4, 8 / 17
2n + 3
What is the 25th term using this algebraic expression? / 18
The answer is 20.
Write some possible equations. / 19 20
True or False?
4 x (n+ 3) = (4 x n) + (4 x 3)
How do you know?
21
First Day of Winter / 22
COOL
How many lines of symmetry in total? / 23 24
How are these solids the same? How are they different?
/ 25
Merry Christmas
/ 26
/ 27
The area of a parallelogram is related to the area of a triangle.
Agree or Disagree?
28
Possible or Impossible?
It will snow today. / 29 30
The amounts of snowfall in December 2007 were:
33.8 cm, 8.8 cm, 25.0 cm
What was the mean amount of snowfall that year? / 31
Someone
will have
a party
today.
How likely is that? / BONUS
/ Estimate how many hours of television you watched this month.
How many seconds?

Family Math Fun (Junior/Intermediate) for the SE2 Families of Schools