Mathematics Home Learning

Looking for ways to prepare, review, or challenge yourself this year?

Here is a list of activities that you might already be doing with your family, or that you might do individually, including some desk-type work,
that will enhance your conceptual understanding of mathematics.

Parents: Interested in reading and learning more about math support/enrichment for your child? Check out YouCubed’s Parent Page!

Activity Student Response BC Curricular Connections

(Your Family Might Already Be Planning) (Grade 6/7)

Marshmallow Popper Game
- Whoever gets their
marshmallow the
farthest wins!
- Try it with different
bottom-sized cups and
see which works best
Did you enjoy the game? Circumference and area of
circles
How does the game connect with circumference and area?
Visualize to explore mathematical
concepts
Insert a picture of the winning marshmallow
Model mathematics in contextualized
experiences

Play Monopoly
Don’t have the board game?
There’s an APP for that!
What strategies helped you in this game? What went well? What Financial literacy — simple budgeting
could’ve gone better? Are there any advantages for players at the - informed decision making on
saving and purchasing
beginning of the game? At the end? Respond in this space.
Single-outcome
probability, both
theoretical and
experimental (rolling the
two dice)

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 Make dinner or bake a dessert What recipe did you choose? Ratios
- Take a recipe and
increase/decrease it to Did you increase or decrease? Improper fractions and
serve mixed numbers
- One person Insert a picture of your baking here!
- A family Referents and relationships between
units
- A party

Going on vacation? Have your Take a screen shot of your vacation planner document and insert it Financial literacy — simple budgeting
- informed decision making on
child research the best deals here. saving and purchasing
and have them convince you - financial percentage calculations
about why it’s the best deal! - sales tax, discount, sale price
- Booking flights Discrete linear functional relationships
- Discount deals (renting a car)
- Renting a car
Operations with integers

Vacation
Download the Use mathematical vocabulary and
language to contribute to mathematical
Planner Template discussions

Explain and justify mathematical ideas and

decisions

Communicate mathematical thinking in

many ways

Represent mathematical ideas in concrete,

pictorial, and symbolic form
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these-7-things-before-leaving-on-summer- Use reasoning and logic to explore,
vacation/post/)
analyze, and apply mathematical ideas

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 Road trip? Print out a map of How did it go? What went well? What could’ve Cartesian coordinates
the area and have your child gone better?
mark out the route, stops, and
and graphing
possible places to visit. Have
them detail it out so you can
read the coordinates easily.

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Sort and put away leftovers
after a meal into appropriately-
sized containers
Take a picture of your leftovers and insert the picture here. Volume of rectangular
prisms and cylinders
Use reasoning and logic to explore,
analyze, and apply mathematical ideas

Grocery shopping Take a picture of your shopping list, projected costs and final Operations with integers
- Make a budget, shop receipt. Insert those pictures here.
Operations with decimals
for the week
- Keep a mental estimate
Relationships between
while shopping
- Compare receipts to decimals, fractions, ratios,
estimate and percents
- If bought things on sale,
Estimate reasonably
figure out total saved
versus percentage Ratios (for unit prices)
saved
Multiplication and division facts

Use reasoning and logic to explore,

analyze, and apply mathematical ideas

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 Sudoku, jigsaw puzzles, Which game is your favourite? Use logic and patterns to solve puzzles
Connect-4, Solitaire, checkers, and play games
chess, Scrabble, Set, KenKen

Khan Academy Use logic and patterns to solve puzzles

and play games, including coding
- Work on a grade-level
mission *All curricular content
- Work on a specific area
of mathematics
- Coding

YouCubed’s Online Math Use reasoning and logic to explore,

analyze, and apply mathematical ideas
Course
- Useful for students and Visualize to explore mathematical
parents alike concepts
- Free online course
Model mathematics in contextualized
beneficial to grades experiences
6/7+
- Based out of Stanford Use mathematical vocabulary and
University language to contribute to
mathematical discussions

Explain and justify mathematical ideas

and decisions

Communicate mathematical thinking

in many ways

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 Paint a room Take before and after pictures and insert them here. Operations with integers
- Figure out the amount Include your budget, what you actually paid and what the
of paint needed, buy difference was between these two numbers. Area of shapes
the paint, paint the
room (with supervision Financial literacy — simple budgeting
or help!) - informed decision making on
saving and purchasing
- financial percentage
calculations
- sales tax, discount, sale price

Use mathematical vocabulary and

language to contribute to
mathematical discussions

Explain and justify mathematical ideas

and decisions

Use reasoning and logic to explore,

analyze, and apply mathematical ideas

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