Dr. George Ferguson Math Trail- grades 2 & 3

Sarah Maloney, Murray Kittleson,
Eleisha Yantz and Pam Scobie
Fall 2001


 
1.Go into room 6. Count the lockers. How many lockers are there? __________

Go into room 7. Count the lockers. How many lockers are there? ___________

How many more lockers are in room 7 than in room 6? ____________

2.Go to the door that you use at recess. On the wall there is a poster of playground rules. Read all of the rules. What is the second (2nd) rule?
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If a new rule was added to the list, how many rules would there be? ____________

3.Look down the hallway. There are many solid orange doors. Draw the shapes that are on each door.




4.Go into the staff room. Look at the picture on the wall behind the large brown table. How many different kinds of food are in this picture? ____________

Draw the pattern that is in the top two rows of the picture.
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5.Walk into the library and find a table and sit
down on a chair at that table. Look up at the lights. The lights are in pairs. Count the number of pairs of lights on the roof. ______________

Now count all the lights on the roof in the library. _____________

6.Stay at your table where you are sitting. Take a look around and look for these things: globe, books, tables, clock and door.
Which of these objects is a circle? ____________
Which of these objects is a rectangle? _________

7.The name of your school is: Dr. George Ferguson School. What small words can you make with the letters of your school name? List five. We did the first one for you.

1.___cool_____________
2.___________________
3.___________________
4.___________________
5.___________________

Which letter do you see the most often in the words: Dr. George Ferguson School? ___________

Put a check mark each time you see one of these letters:
E______________
O_____________
R______________
G______________



8.Walk out the door in the library that has the clock above it. Turn right and walk down the hallway. Find the Welcome Back Falcon that is close to room 14. If this falcon has seven babies, how many babies are not in the nest? _________________

9.Walk back to the hallway close to your own classroom. Sit down and take a rest. If you had $1.00 (one dollar) and you bought a milk for 50c (fifty cents), how much money would you have left? ______________

If you got all your change back from buying the 50c milk in pennies (1c), how many pennies would you have? _____________

If you got all you change back from buying the 50c milk in dimes (10c), how many dimes would you have? _______________

10.If you look down at the floor in the hallway, you will see big squares. How many of your feet would it take to walk across 5 squares if you walked slowly heel to toe?
(walk with your feet touching one behind the other) ______________







 



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