Time:
30 minutes
Things you need:
- Running shoes
- hat
- paper
- pencil
Action:
Go for a walk around your neighbourhood with an adult and look for math all around you!
- Find a Pattern in your neighbourhood.
- When you go back home, draw it on a piece of paper and extend it to be a repeating pattern or a growing pattern.
- Write your pattern rule.
- Some examples of patterns you may find in your neighbourhood are:
- The windows patterns in the neighbourhood home
- The bricks on the houses
- Find something symmetrical. (two halves are the same). When you come back, draw a reflection of that on your paper
- A pile of stones/ things. Estimate how many are there?
- Find a structure that is double your height. Guess what its height is in meters? What is your height? Are you taller than a meter stick? Guess what the structure’s height is in meters?
- Find a triangle shape, hexagon, a circle, a square, a rectangle. Use shapes that you found to draw a floor pattern!
Reflection:
- What was easy to find?
- What was challenging to find? Why?
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