Workshop Choice Board - Connect Four Summer 2014



Name: ____________________________________________________Fifth Grade Math Choice BoardWhole Numbers, Decimals – 1st Nine WeeksRestaurant MenuChoose a restaurant menu. Order one beverage, entrée, and dessert for each family member. Calculate the cost for each person. Then, calculate the cost for the entire family.Book OrderYou have $23.00 to purchase from the latest Scholastic order form. Decide which items you will buy. How much money will you spend? How much will you have left?Hobby/Sport/ActivityChoose an activity that you do several times a week. How long do you spend doing this activity each time? How long do you spend doing this activity in one week? One month? One year? Show how you can estimate each length of time before calculating tour answers. Create a chart to include the estimation and the calculation for a week, month, and year.PosterCreate a poster that shows how you can use base ten blocks or regrouping to add or subtract decimal numbers to the hundredths.VideoCreate a video that shows your classmates how to multiply and divide using several different methods. Include mental math strategies, algorithms, and manipulatives. CollageCreate a collage showing ways we use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in our everyday lives. Include ten or more ways.Real-World ConnectionFind ten or more numbers in the community. Photograph or illustrate the examples. Include at least one number in the tens of thousands, one in the thousands, one in the hundreds, one in the tens, and one number with a single digit. Also, include at least once pare and ContrastChoose five items that you would like to purchase. Compare their prices at two different stores or restaurants. Argue where you would by the items and why. Field TripDesign a field trip for the class. The principal has agreed to pay for the bus, but students must pay for everything else. Each student can pay no more than $25. Write a proposal for your teacher explaining where you should go, what you will do on the trip, how much it will cost in total, and how much each student will have to pay. Explain how you know your calculations are accurate.Name: ____________________________________________________Fifth Grade Math Choice BoardFractions – 2nd Nine WeeksChartCreate a conversion chart showing fractions, decimals, and percents for ten different rmational WritingWrite directions for how to convert a decimal to a fraction. Also compose directions for how to convert a fraction to a decimal. Extension: Include directions for how to convert fractions and decimals to percentages.IllustrationsDefine fraction, decimal, and percent. Draw a picture to illustrate each word. Give an example of where you would see each.Real-World ConnectionFind pictures of ways in which fractions, decimals, and percents are used in everyday life. Give two or more examples of each.VideoCreate a how-to video that shows students how to put fractions in order from greatest to least. Use models in your explanations. You may also include improper fractions and mixed numbers. Extension: Create a short commercial for a product that could be sold using fractions. M & M’sYou have two of the same size bags of M&Ms. Bag A is 3/8 full and Bag B is 1/4 full. If you combine the two bags of candy, will you have less than a half, about half, or more than half of a bag of candy? Estimate the answer. Then, use fraction bars, strips, or circles to find the exact answer. Evaluate the reasonableness of the answer by comparing the estimation to the exact sum.from Analyzing the Standards on the MOCCVideoPlay Kids and Cookies at HYPERLINK "" . Record a video explaining how fractions can be used to divide food.Pizza PartyYou are having a pizza party in your class, and each student gets two pieces of pizza. Get a menu from a local pizza delivery store, and determine how many pizzas you should order if you ordered large pizzas. Explain your answer using improper fractions and mixed numbers. Show how the information changes if you ordered medium pizzas. Which size do you think would be better to order? Explain rmational Writing 2Write directions to explain how to change mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa. Explain your thinking with examples.Name: ____________________________________________________Fifth Grade Math Choice BoardFractions, Geometry and Coordinate Plane, 2D Figures – 3rd Nine WeeksMapCreate a map of an imaginary location. Include a coordinate grid. Create a legend for your map showing ten important places, and include the coordinate grid location for rmational WritingExplain the importance of using coordinate grids. Include information about how to use a grid. Give examples of where coordinate grids are used.IllustrationIllustrate the following: line, line segment, ray, right angle, acute angle, obtuse angle, perpendicular and parallel lines. Label the points. Extension: Describe your picture.ModelConstruct a model to show the following. Evan bought 6 roses for his mother. 2/3 of them were red. How many red roses were there? Song/Poem/StoryWrite a song or poem about different ways to classify shapes. Or, write a story about a regular polygon and its adventures. The special properties of the shape should help in its story.Treasure HuntUsing a letter and number grid system, create a treasure hunt game. Write directions for finding the treasure. Have a classmate solve.Venn DiagramCollect 12 objects that are real-life examples of polygons. Use string, tape, or large hoops to construct a Venn diagram. Classify the objects three times, using a different sorting rule each time. Take a photo of each. Use your photos to create a poster explaining your sorting rules.CartoonDraw a cartoon picture on coordinate grid paper. Use at least 25 points. Write instructions for drawing the same picture using the coordinates. Give it to a friend to test.Picture DictionaryCreate a dictionary with definitions and illustrations of the following vocabulary:fraction, numerator, denominator, operations, multiplication/multiply, equal parts, equivalent, factor, area, scaling, and comparing. Name: ____________________________________________________Fifth Grade Math Choice BoardVolume and Measurement – 4th Nine WeeksCerealMs. Lee is trying to determine which box of cereal to buy for her growing sons. Can you help her determine which box of cereal is bigger? Estimate the number of snap cubes that it will take to fill each cereal box. Then fill each one with snap cubes and count them to find the volume of each box. Line PlotStudents line up according to height, creating a human line plot. Draw the line plot. What units of measure would be the most appropriate for measuring the exact height of students? What might be a typical measure of the shortest, average, and tallest students? What if the height is between two whole units of measure? IllustrationDesign and draw an original monument celebrating a person, place, or event of your choice. Write a paragraph about who or what the monument honors. Include the dimensions and volume of the monument.ArgumentRunning a dishwasher takes approximately 40 L of water. Washing dishes by hand takes 36 L of water. Create a presentation for your class to convince them to wash dishes by hand using information about how much water they could save over a week, month, and year. Real-World ConnectionFind three or more rectangular prisms (paper clip box, small game box, pizza box, 12-pack soda box, copy paper box, etc.) and appropriate cubes as standards of measure (cubes from base ten kit, snap cubes, wooden blocks, etc.). Compare the length, width, height, and volume. ChocolatesMr. Pena wants to buy a box of chocolates. There are boxes that have 1 layer of chocolates, 2 layers of chocolates, and 3 layers of chocolates. All of the chocolates are approximately 1 cubic inch. The bottom layer of each box has 4 rows of chocolates with 3 chocolates in each row. How many chocolates are in the bottom layer of each box? Then, use that information to figure out how many chocolates are there in each of the 3 types of boxes. ListCreate a list of ten or more reasons it is necessary to know the volume of something.Measurement CubeMake a cube with the following sides: perimeter, area, volume, capacity, and mass. The sixth side will have the title Measurement. Include information about each type of measurement, the units used, and what each is used to measure in the real world.Critical ThinkingBrad purchased a couch 6 feet 4 inches long. He has the choice of three walls he could place the couch along in his family room. The lengths of the walls are 81 inches, 58 inches, and 72 inches. On which wall should Brad place the couch? Why?from Analyzing the Standards on the MOCC ................
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