Comments on: What Games/activities Can I Use for a 3rd-4th Grade Summer Math Camp for Kids? http://www.amusingmathpuzzles.com/math-games-for-kids/what-gamesactivities-can-i-use-for-a-3rd-4th-grade-summer-math-camp-for-kids Math Puzzles Keeps Your Mind Agile, Making Math Fun Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: CJ Miyake http://www.amusingmathpuzzles.com/math-games-for-kids/what-gamesactivities-can-i-use-for-a-3rd-4th-grade-summer-math-camp-for-kids/comment-page-1#comment-521 CJ Miyake Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:19:59 +0000 http://www.amusingmathpuzzles.com/math-games-for-kids/what-gamesactivities-can-i-use-for-a-3rd-4th-grade-summer-math-camp-for-kids#comment-521 Getting students to find the math that occurs in everyday life is really good. Your pie activity for fractions is a good start. Other ideas... - Measuring objects and their shadows outside to see the ratio between the sizes. - Cooking - how to increase the amount of each ingredient when you want to increase the total amount of the finished item. So if you had a recipe for 30 cookies, ask the students to find how much of everything you would need to make 10 cookies. - Sports - shooting basketballs. Freethrows and shooting percentage. Shoot 10 freethrows, calculate the percentage using the fractions. - You could do things with statistics if you have enough students. Having the students think of some questions like "what is your favorite food" or "who is your favorite actor" and then making a survey and handing them out to the students and then calculating the percentages and statistics of the survey. - Shapes - Taking pictures from magazines of common objects so your students can identify the shapes in everyday things. OR a shape scavenger hunt. Give the students 10 shapes to find and tell them they have to find those 10 shapes in the school or in the classroom. They can do it in groups as a competition. I hope that helps, some of those activities might be too difficult but maybe that can get you started thinking of more!<br><b>References : </b><br> Getting students to find the math that occurs in everyday life is really good. Your pie activity for fractions is a good start. Other ideas…
- Measuring objects and their shadows outside to see the ratio between the sizes.
- Cooking – how to increase the amount of each ingredient when you want to increase the total amount of the finished item. So if you had a recipe for 30 cookies, ask the students to find how much of everything you would need to make 10 cookies.
- Sports – shooting basketballs. Freethrows and shooting percentage. Shoot 10 freethrows, calculate the percentage using the fractions.
- You could do things with statistics if you have enough students. Having the students think of some questions like "what is your favorite food" or "who is your favorite actor" and then making a survey and handing them out to the students and then calculating the percentages and statistics of the survey.
- Shapes – Taking pictures from magazines of common objects so your students can identify the shapes in everyday things. OR a shape scavenger hunt. Give the students 10 shapes to find and tell them they have to find those 10 shapes in the school or in the classroom. They can do it in groups as a competition.

I hope that helps, some of those activities might be too difficult but maybe that can get you started thinking of more!
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