Math Challenge: How Much Does It Cost? 1. If a dozen donuts cost $3.00, how much does each donut cost? 2. If a pound and a half of raisins cost $1.50, how much does a pound of raisins cost? 3. If a 15 inch stack of tuna cans cost $3.50, how much does a 45 inch stack cost? 4. Which is a better buy, 5 candy bars for 80 cents or 4 candy bars for 60 cents? 5. Rich bought six 30 cent stamps. How much change did he get from a $20 bill? Writing Challenge:
If you didn't do last week's Write to a Senior Challenge (below), I encourage you to do so. Here's another one: Write a sentence that makes sense reading either from left to right or right to left. Example: Bob liked Mary and Bill. It can also read: Bill and Mary liked Bob. See how long you can make the sentence.
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Writing Challenge: Write a Letter to a Senior Most Assisted Living and Senior Living Facilities are on lockdown and the residents are feeling very isolated. Write a letter to cheer someone up! Click here for addresses to some local senior living facilities that would love to hear from you! Math Challenge: STEM Challenge:
Basketball Tower Create a tower that can support a basketball using only newspaper and tape. A basketball is pretty heavy...... do you think you can make a tower out of newspaper (or regular paper) that can support it? Materials: Basketball (if you don't have one, use another type of ball) Newspaper or plain paper Tape Extra Challenge: Limit the amount of newspaper (or tape) used or try to make the tallest tower possible that will still hold the weight. Math Challenge:
Fencing I have a miniature collection of farm animals and I would like to fence in a rectangular area to put them in. I have only 20 centimeters of fencing.
STEM: Sounds (Sound Discrimination: the ability to recognize different sounds) Can you create a game using items around the house to test if someone can hear different types of sounds? |
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