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Math Trail - St. Marguerite School
Aaron Ebbett and Joleen Kayter
| 1. | Located in the main lobby is the mascot picture for the school. The picture is made of many different sized
and colored tiles. How many white squares are there? _________________________________ Measure in cm the total length of the yellow squares. ______________________ |
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| 2. | In your own classroom, how many boys are there? ____________________ How many girls are there? _______________________________________ |
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| 3. | How many students are there in your classroom? __________ How many students in the class have; Brown eyes Blue eyes Green eyes Grey Other eye colors Create a graph to show the number of students with each eye color. |
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| 4. | Find the fire hose in the case by the washrooms. How many folds are there along the bottom of the hose? _____________________________ How many lines does the hose make when folded (running up and down)? ________________ Are these lines parallel? _______________________ |
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| 5. | Go to the library and the 2nd shelf labeled "Reference" (where the World Book 1995 edition books are).
Remove 6 books from the shelf. How many books are left on the shelf? ________________________ |
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| 6. | Visit outside Mrs. Reed's room. There is a list of the students names. Who has the longest name? ___________________________________ How many letters are there? ______________________ Who has the shortest name? __________________________________ How many letters are there? ______________________ What is the difference between the two? ________________________ |
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| 7. | Find the hallway displaying classroom pictures. The oldest year of pictures is from the very start of the schools history! What year are they from? _________________________ Can you tell how many classes the school had by looking at the pictures? ____________________ What is the most recent year of pictures displayed? _____________________ How many classes did that year have? __________________________ What year had more classes and by how many? ___________________________ |
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| 8. | In the front lobby there is a plague on the wall. The plague has the schools name on it, some information and
the year the school opened. What year did the school first open? __________________________ How old is the school today? _____________________________ How old will the school be when you are in grade 8? _____________ |
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| 9. | Find the bench in the hall by classroom P-2 Mrs. Reed's room. Stand back from the bench and face the front of
it. Name and draw the shapes you can see in the iron steelwork bench. |
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| 10. | Find the map on the wall. The map has been painted on the wall and it is of Canada. All the provinces are shown
with their capital cities. Using a meter stick measure the distance between; Regina and Ottawa in cm _________________________________ Regina and Yellowknife in cm _________________________________ And Regina and Victoria in cm _________________________________ If you were to travel what trip would be the furthest to take? |