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Food Fractions

Find a recipe in the newspaper. Divide the recipe in half. Can you come up with the figures for the ingredients?

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

4th 5th

Skill or Strand:

Decoding

Standard:

Students recognize*** name and compare fractions; recognize fractions of a whole and parts of a group; apply division of fractions.

Secret Message

Cut out individual letters and/or words to form a message. Glue it on a piece of paper and send your message to a classmate. Can he/she guess who it is from?

Subject:

Writing

Grade:

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Spelling

Standard:

Students spell basic patterns correctly.

High Living

Locate apartments for rent in the classified section. Cut out five different monthly rent payments. Arrange the payments in order from the lowest amount to the highest amount. Figure the cost of renting each apartment for one year. What is the difference between the most and least expensive?

Subject:

Problem Solving

Grade:

9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Budgeting

Standard:

Students compare and order money amounts; use repeated addition or multiplication to solve problems; calculate problems involving subtraction.

Median Ages

Find and list the ages of nine people who appear in the news. List the ages from oldest to youngest. Circle the median age on your list (the middle number listed). Add up the list of ages and divide your total by 9. This is the average age of your newsmakers. Are the ages the same? Try this activity with just women's ages. Try it with just men's ages. What conclusions can you draw about your newsmakers?

Subject:

Operations

Grade:

4th 5th 6th 7th

Skill or Strand:

Division

Standard:

Students compare and order whole numbers; solve problems by dividing multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers; identify median; determine average; develop generalizations of results.

Stock Market

Use the business section to identify the prices of stocks. Purchase $200 of stock. Your stock can be in one or two or three companies. Track your stocks for six weeks. What news stories might have an impact on your stocks? At the end of six weeks sell your stock. Did you make or lose money?

Subject:

Operations

Grade:

6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Fractions

Standard:

Students apply knowledge that fractions and decimals are two different representations of the same concept; calculate problems involving addition and subtraction and use math to solve real life problems.