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Christmas Math: The 12 Math Days of Christmas - Easy As Pi!
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Math can be found in all sorts of activities we do in this season. Learning to combine math in your daily routine is one of the best ways to help your child develop strong math skills. Googol Learning
(www.googollearning.com) and the Crazy 4 Math Contest (www.crazy4math.com) present 12 great ways to combine math in your Christmas activities.
| 1. | Tracking Santa's big trip is a great exercise in geography, cartography, distance, speed, temperature and time zones. |
| 2. | When baking for Christmas, take your favorite recipe, double it, convert it to metric and use only a teaspoon and a quarter cup to measure. |
| 3. | Get everyone to prepare a shopping budget and stick to it! Teach the kids how to use a spreadsheet. |
| 4. | How many Christmas lights are decorating your house? How many extra watts of power are they using? How about on your street? |
| 5. | Count down and chart the days until the big day. Make your own advent calendar. Have older kids include minutes and seconds. |
| 6. | While wrapping presents, have your tape measure handy to measure the dimensions of the package. How much wrapping paper will you need? |
| 7. | Explore symmetry and fractals by talking about snowflakes and Christmas trees. Create your own decorations. |
| 8. | Make up your own Christmas card puzzles in cryptarithm. |
| 9. | Construct your own polyhedral paper ornaments for the tree. |
| 10. | How many gifts in all are given in the song? |
| 11. | Are you eating more than normal? Try tracking what you eat along with your activities for the day, charting the calories consumed and burned. |
| 12. | Unwrapping gifts leaves hundreds of math possibilities (probability Dad gets a tie, compare and contrast time to wrap with time to open, use ribbon to make mobius strips, etc.) |
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