Summer is a great time for children to relax and have fun.  It is also a wonderful time for parents and children to spend time together reading and developing mathematical concepts in fun and engaging ways. We hope that you will find the following OPTIONAL activities and suggestions helpful in sharpening and maintaining mathematical skills over the summer.

Summer Math Road Trips

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Below, please choose the grade level that your child will be entering in the fall. For each day your child completes an activity on the calendar, please initial at the bottom of the box. Activities can be completed in any order. Those students who return completed calendars in September will be recognized at their school.
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Don't forget to practice math facts!

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End-of-Year Expectations
​Kindergarten: Fluently add and subtract within 5.
1st Grade:  Fluently add and subtract within 10.
2nd Grade:  Fluently add and subtract within 20.
3rd Grade:  Fluently multiply all products up to 10×10 and related division facts.
4th Grade:  Fluently multiply all products up to 12×12 and related division facts.
5th Grade: Keep practicing all fact fluency!

Games

Check out the games below that you can play all summer long! They are motivational and, with parent involvement, these games are an excellent way to get your child to communicate concepts while sharpening thinking skills. They also provide an opportunity for discussion and questions. Encourage your child to evaluate answers, draw conclusions and strengthen reasoning skills. Games are a low stress way to engage your child in math while developing necessary skills.

The following list of games are excerpted from Games and Their Uses in Mathematics Learning (Sharma, 2008). Beside each title are the skills and concepts that are reinforced.
  • Simon or Mini Wizard (sequencing, following multi-step directions, visual/auditory memory)
  • Battleship (spatial orientation, visualization, visual memory)
  • Cribbage (number relationships, patterns, visual clusters)
  • Quarto (spatial orientation/space organization, patterns, classification)
  • Concentration (visualization, pattern recognition, visual memory)
  • Chinese Checkers (patterns, spatial orientation/space organization)
  • Pachisi (sequencing, patterns, number relationships)
  • Checkers (sequencing, patterns, spatial orientation/space organization)
  • Othello (pattern recognition, spatial orientation, visual clustering, focus on more than one aspect, variable or concept of time)
  • Score Four or Connect Four (pattern recognition, spatial orientation, visual clustering, geometric patterns)
  • ​Krypto (number sense, basic arithmetical facts)
  • Kalah or Mankalah (sequencing, counting, estimation, visual clustering)
  • Master Mind (sequencing, logical deduction, pattern recognition)
  • Four Sight (spatial orientation, pattern recognition, logical deduction)
  • Black-Box (logical deduction)
  • Card Games (visual clustering, pattern recognition, number facts)
  • Dominos (visual clustering, pattern recognition, number facts)
  • Number War Games (visual clustering, arithmetic facts, mathematics concepts)