Summer Calendar of Math Activities

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 What is your favorite shape? Make a picture filled with this shape.	2 Make toast and cut into halves. Cut another piece into halves in a different way.	3 Circle all the numbers on the front page of today’s paper.	4 Use a calculator to find the sum of the digits in your telephone number.	5 Gather 10 objects. How many ways can you sort them?	6 How many shoes are in your house? Count them by 2’s.	7 How many days until your next birthday?
8 What is your favorite number? Why? Describe it in two different ways.	9 If you have 4 coins, how much money could you have?	10 Find a book or story that uses each number word 1 to 10.	11 If today is Monday, what day will it be in 8 days?	12 How many ways can you name 12?	13 How many 2-digit numbers can you make with the digits 1, 2, and 3?	14 Write or tell a story about a dozen eggs.
15 Draw an analog clock to show your favorite time of day. Show this time on a digital clock. Tell about this time.	16 If it is 7:30 and the cartoon lasts 1 hour, what time will it be over?	17 Roll a number cube (die) 20 times. Make a graph to show which number comes up most often.	18 Draw a picture using only rectangles, triangles, and circles.	19 Make a pattern. Have a friend continue it. What is the pattern unit?	20 How can you cut two cookies so that 4 people get equal pieces?	21 Record the numbers of ears for 1 person; 2 people, 3 people... 5 people. What pattern do you see?
22 Find the most popular vowel by tallying the letters in 100 words. Graph the results.	23 How many jumping jacks can you do in a minute?	24 Count the light switches in your house. Use tally marks to record your results.	25 Find all the ways that you can make 25¢.	26 Count the number of days until school starts.	27 How many 5’s are between 1 and 100?	28 What’s your zip code? Find the sum of the five digits.
29 Write a story about 5 + 7.	30 Help unpack the groceries. What ways could you sort the items that you bought.	31 Is the date of your birthday even or odd? Find two more even or odd numbers on this calendar.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 Make 5 triangles using 10 toothpicks.	2 If you cut off two corners of a square, how many corners are left?	3 Your friend is 5,781,600 minutes old. How many years old is this? Use a calculator.	4 What is the area of your bedroom floor? What is the perimeter?	5 If you pull 8 coins out of your pocket (none are pennies), how much money could you have?	6 If your friend’s birthday is the 193^rd day of the year, what date is this?	7 How many times can 10 be subtracted from 110?
8 What 3 even numbers add up to 54?	9 If you spend $25 a day, how long would it take to spend $100,000?	10 Make an alphabet of mathematical terms: A is for angle, B is for base, etc.	11 Draw 2 squares using only 5 lines.	12 Name all the ways that 10 and 15 are alike or different.	13 Cut a piece of string 1 meter long. List 10 things that are this length.	14 How many minutes of commercials will be shown from 6-7 PM.
15 What time will it be 1000 hours from now? Use a calculator.	16 How many weeks in 2 years?	17 List books and song titles with numbers in them.	18 Identify prime numbers between 100 and 200. How do you know they are prime?	19 Use the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 and all operations to make equations equal to the numbers 1 to 10.	20 List things that come in groups of twelve, groups of two, and groups of four.	21 How many days until December 31?
22 What is the product of the digits of your phone number?	23 Create a line graph of the high and low temperatures for the next 10 days.	24 What 2-digit number is equal to 3 times the product of its digits?	25 Use these numbers to write a story: 18, 29, 11.	26 How many ways can you divide a square into 4 equal parts?	27 Between midnight and noon, how many times is the minute hand and the hour hand at right angles to each other?	28 Use the digits in your zip code to make 5 different equations. Use parentheses in one of your equations.
29 Survey your neighbors to find out what is their favorite outdoor activity. Graph the results.	30 How many times does the number 7 appear in a 2001 calendar.	31 What is the average age of the people in your house?