1. In front of the school you will see a brick pillar. |
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A) | Using your ruler, measure how tall one brick on the pillar is in centimeters.
Height of brick:___________ |
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B) | Count how many bricks tall the pillar is: ______ bricks tall. |
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C) | Guess how many centimeters tall the pillar is: ____________
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2. Look at the big window in the foyer. Can you find the center line? |
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A) | Are both sides the same? __________ |
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B) | How many windows are there all together? _________
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3. In the Library, find the World Books. |
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A) | Find the book for letter . How many pages does this book have? ________ |
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B) | Find the book for letter . How many pages does this book have? ________ |
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C) | Which book has more pages? ___________ |
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D) | How many more pages? _________
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4. Find the tallest shelf in the Library. |
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A) | How many shelves tall is it? ______ |
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B) | If it is two shelves across then how many shelves are there all together? ________ |
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C) | Draw a picture of the shelf:
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5. Look around the foyer. Can you see any tesselations?
(Tesselations are patterns that are around us.) |
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A) | Draw a picture of a tesselation.
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6. Go outside to the school playground and pick up a handful of rocks. |
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A) | Count how many rocks are in a handful. ________ |
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B) | Guess how many rocks would be in five handfuls. _______ |
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C) | Guess how many rocks would be in ten handfuls. ______
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7. Look at the playset. |
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| Where do you see straight lines on the playset? Draw some of these: |
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B) | Where do you see curvy lines? Draw some of these: |
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C) | Where do you see circular shapes? Draw some of these:
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8. Let's play basketball! |
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A) | Guess how many baskets you will get in ten throws: _________
How many will you miss? _________ |
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B) | Throw the ball ten times.
How many throws did you get in? _________
How many throws did you miss? ________ |
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C) | If you tried 100 times, how many throws do you think you would get in? _________
How many throws do you think that you would miss? ________ |
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| How many steps long do you think the hallway is? ________
How many steps across do you think it is? ________ |
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B) | Walk down the hallway and count your steps. How long is it? ________
Walk across the hallway and count your steps. How wide is it? ________ |
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C) | Graph you results using the graph that was given to you.
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10. Look at the different shapes on the ceiling. |
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A) | Name some round things: ____________________________ |
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B) | Name some square things: |
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C) | Name some rectangular things: ___________________________ |
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D) | Draw and label these shapes. |