\ \ Play a round of battleship. Discuss how you ask for hits and misses.
Cookie Counter
\ \ Encourage counting various types. How many cooked cookies? How many uncooked? How many rows? Columns? As always discuss…
Split Piles
\ \ How many circles are in each pile? Ask you child, “Another little girl split them up differently. What…
Symmetry in the Picture
Thinking: Exploring symmetry. #tmwyk pic.twitter.com/2rfzEi8sf4 — Mark Trushkowsky (@mtrushkowsky) December 17, 2017
Organized Coins
\ \ After discussing what each of you notice and wonder. Have your child add up each side. Which side…
Block Tower
\ \ What could you and your child count in this picture? Predict how many more “turns” until it falls…
Famous Patterns
\ \ After you discuss the patterning you see here let you child know that this triangular array is called…
Can you see the faces?
\ \ Ask your child how they counted the faces? Then ask them to count them a different way.\ \…
Canada 150
\ \ Kyle Pearce has shared a math challenge for each day in June to prepare for today, Canada’s 150…
Overlapping Patterns
\ \ What number will they overlap on? How do you know? Draw two new patterns that overlap on the…
Headbandz: Numbers
\ \ Try to guess your own number. After playing with numbers play with shapes.
Standing Tall
What pattern could you create by having your friends stand on numbers?\ \
Big & Little
\ \ What measurements will help you out? Volume? Length? How will you and your child compare? How many times…
Wondering Hippos
\ Alright parents. Create your own question to ask your child. \ Possible questions: If the green hippo eats some…
Missing Cherries
\ \ How many cherries should be in the 7th pile if the pattern continues? Create another pattern that starts…
What do you see?
\ \ How many triangles would fill the centre of the completed picture?
Complete the Square
\ \ How many little squares are there in total after completing the big square? What are other square numbers?…
Packs of Cherries
\ \ How can you count them differently? If you ate one of the groups, how many would be left?
Triangle Cover
\ \ For a video version of this prompt check out the twitter feed here.
Which One Doesn’t Belong?
\ \ Which one doesn’t belong? Be ready to say why your choice doesn’t fit with the rest. Try to…
Circle Counting
\ \ After your child counts the dots say “another child counted them in a different way. How might he/she…
More Squares
\ \ How did you create the red squares? Draw a diagram to show your thinking.
Putting it on the Line
\ \ For more activities like this please check out clotheslinemath.com and Estimation180.com/clothesline
Two Cubes
\ \ Extensions:How many more yellow squares do you need to add to the big cube to make the big…