Pentomino Puzzles

Pentomino Puzzles

\ \ Visit the Desmos activity at\’a0https://goo.gl/eX2u9r\’a0to play some rounds of Pentomino Puzzles. As always, encourage discussion on how you…

Number Line Placements

Number Line Placements

Missing Triangles

Missing Triangles

Wooden Logs

Wooden Logs

\ \ Estimate – How many wooded logs are BEHIND the blue rectangle? How did you estimate?

Battleship

Battleship

\ \ Play a round of battleship. Discuss how you ask for hits and misses.

Fruit Shapes

Fruit Shapes

Cookie Counter

Cookie Counter

\ \ Encourage counting various types. How many cooked cookies? How many uncooked? How many rows? Columns? As always discuss…

Area Order

Area Order

Colour Tiles

Colour Tiles

Split Piles

Split Piles

\ \ How many circles are in each pile? Ask you child, “Another little girl split them up differently. What…

Symmetry in the Picture

Symmetry in the Picture

Thinking: Exploring symmetry. #tmwyk pic.twitter.com/2rfzEi8sf4 — Mark Trushkowsky (@mtrushkowsky) December 17, 2017

See the pattern

See the pattern

Organized Coins

Organized Coins

\ \ After discussing what each of you notice and wonder. Have your child add up each side. Which side…

Kitchen Fun

Kitchen Fun

Block Tower

Block Tower

\ \ What could you and your child count in this picture? Predict how many more “turns” until it falls…

14

14

Famous Patterns

Famous Patterns

\ \ After you discuss the patterning you see here let you child know that this triangular array is called…

Orange you glad it’s summer?

Orange you glad it’s summer?

Can you see the faces?

Can you see the faces?

\ \ Ask your child how they counted the faces? Then ask them to count them a different way.\ \…

Canada 150

Canada 150

\ \ Kyle Pearce has shared a math challenge for each day in June to prepare for today, Canada’s 150…