A Day in the Life of a Math Teacher

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A Day in the Life of a Math Teachers Child
This little piggy went to market. How many?
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Wake Up!

• Good Morning Honey, how did you sleep?
• If you went to sleep at 920 and woke at 800,
  how many hours did you sleep?
• How many more hours did you sleep than me?
• If you have to get to soccer practice at 1045,
  how much time do you have to get ready?

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Breakfast

• About how many mouthfuls of cereal do you think
  it will take to finish the bowl?
• How long will it take to eat breakfast?
• Can you find a pattern in your cereal?

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Shopping with Mom

• If we eat 3 apples a day, how many apples do we
  eat in a week?
• Which is the better buy, juice boxes or a quart?
• Which bunch of bananas weighs more?
• If I have 50.00, will I have enough to pay for
  all this food?

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Read, Read, Read
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Mathercise

• How many jumps can you do in a row?
• If you jump 20 times with alternate feet, how
  many times did your left foot hit first?
• A resting heart rate is about 68 beats per
  minute, after 10 minutes jumping, how many beats
  per minute?

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Hole Numbers

• How many ways can you measure a hole?
• If we plant these seeds in May and it takes 6
  weeks to grow, when should we see growth?
• Plant seeds 8 inches apart. How many holes will
  fit in a 8 x 10 foot flower bed?

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Experimentation

• Lets make colors.
• How many drops of each color will make a new
  color?
• How many drops of water fill a glass?

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Lunch Time

• Any plate can become a clock
• What time did you wake up?
• How many hours and minutes have you been awake?
• How long until going to the playground?

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Counting Calories
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Play Dates

• What is the angle of the slide?
• How many combinations of activities can be done?
• What is the difference in temperature between the
  sunny and shady parts of the slide?

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MeasurementCompare Contrast
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Estimating

• About how many balls are in the ball pen?
• How many basketballs do you think could fit? What
  was your reasoning?
• About how many children could play in here
  safely? How did you decide?

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Lets Play School!
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Currency
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Making Dinner

• Cutting into fractions
• Food patterns
• Compare and contrast attributes
• Measurement

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Sports! Scores! Statistics!
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Dads Home!

• A football team can earn points in the following
  manner touchdown 6 points field goal 1 point
  conversion 2 pts. safety 3 points
• How many possible ways could a team score 19
  points?

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Math on the MoveMental Math Games
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TV can be educational!
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Musical Math

• Quarter notes, half notes. a definite lead in to
  fractions!
• How many more ivory keys than black keys?
• Do you see or hear a pattern?
• Math facts to a beat!

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Family Fun!
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Mathematics is hiding on every page of a book!
Just look.
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Counting Sheep in your Sleep