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!

  1. 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
  2. Find something symmetrical. (two halves are the same). When you come back, draw a reflection of that on your paper
  3. A pile of stones/ things. Estimate how many are there?
  4. 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?