Summer Math Menu

Students Entering Grades 5 & 6

Purpose
It is important for all students to review math concepts, skills,
and practices during the summer. Students should continue to
develop their conceptual understanding, their procedural skill and
fluency, and their ability to apply both of these to solve
problems. Intentional practice of math skills, concepts, and
practices will help students reinforce this years learning as well
as help to prepare them for the upcoming year. The tasks
included here can serve as a way to engage your family in fun and

What Parents/Guardians May Do to Support:

Make a practice plan and help your child set goals.
Recognize your childs strengths.
Help your child to identify the areas of mathematics he/she would
like to focus on over the summer.
Have fun solving problems together and creating your own new
math challenges.
Create a system with your child to monitor and track progress.

challenging conversations around math over the course of the

summer.

Directions
The menu does not need to be returned in the fall, but we hope
you complete many of the tasks and use them to develop and
explore your own math ideas.

Mathematical Practices:

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of
others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Math Tools You May Need:

Blank paper or a journal for problem-solving and creating, ruler
(http://printable-ruler.net/), pencils, colored pencils or crayons, dice,
scissors, internet access, calculator

Websites to Explore:
http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/families
www.funbrain.com
www.setgame.com
www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com www.thatquiz.com
illuminations.nctm.org
www.xtramath.org
www.mathsisfun.com
www.mathchimp.com
www.aplusmath.com
www.arcademics.com/games
www.aaamath.com
resources.oswego.org/games/
www.mathplayground.com
www.math-play.com/
www.khanacademy.org
www.figurethis.org/index.html

Guilford Public Schools Summer Math Menu for Students Entering Grades 5 & 6
How can you keep your math skills sharp? Practice with your family and friends throughout the summer. The tasks included are suggested
opportunities for learning. You are encouraged to develop and explore your own math ideas too. The Math Menu need not be returned in the fall.
Visit bedtimemath.org.

With parent or guardian

permission, count all the
coins in your piggy bank or
their change containers
and/or wallets.

Plan a Virtual Trip

Use www.expedia.com as a
resource, plan a week-long
trip to your favorite
destination. Calculate the
cost of round-trip airplane
tickets, hotel and
approximate food costs for
your family.

Solve a Sudoko puzzle.

Are you going on a road

trip this summer?
-Map it out
-Find the shortest route
-Calculate mileage
-Calculate gas cost, based
on miles per gallon

With parent/guardian
permission, sign up for Fun
Nightly Math. You will receive
an email each afternoon
containing a cool fact followed
by math questions. Enjoy five
quick minutes of number fun
daily. Or, check out the archived
daily math.

Keep track of the number of

minutes and pages you read
in July. Calculate the total
minutes and pages read for
the month. Calculate the
average pages / minutes
read per week.

Play Scrabble; be the

score keeper. Or, play
monopoly; be the
banker.

Look for math in nature.

For example,

symmetry

Plan a meal for your family

using the weekly grocery
flyer. Figure out the cost of
the grocery bill and the cost
per person.

Try an app:
Kakooma
Quick Math Game
PopMath
iEstimation
Pick-a-Path
Sumdog
Conundra Math
Cloud Math

Create a graph of the

high and low
temperatures
for 10 days.

Time how long it takes

you to walk and/or run
a mile. Try to beat your
time.

Visit illuminations.nctm.org.
Search site for:
Product Game
Factor Game
Equivalent Fractions
Fraction Game

With parent or guardian

supervision, design and
build a bird house or
small structure.

Measure, weigh and

compare/contrast things.
Ideas to consider include:
water balloons
vegetables/fruit
fish/worms
flowers
people
plants

Pick out a recipe to

cook or bake. Figure
out how to half it,
double it, or even
triple it.

When you dine out,

estimate the cost of the
bill. Based on the actual
bill, mentally calculate a
10%, 15% and 20% tip.

Plan a lemonade and/or flower

stand. Calculate how much the
supplies will cost? What will
your profit be if you sold 20
cups/flowers? How much
could you potentially make if
your stand was open for one
week? With permission, try it.
Geometry Scavenger Hunt
Try to find the following: cube,
triangular prism, trapezoid,
rectangular prism, intersecting
lines, parallel lines and spheres.
Practice your
addition/multiplication
combinations. Use a deck of cards.
Remove the kings, queens and
jacks. Shuffle the cards and deal
out two piles. Flip one card from
each pile and add/multiply the
two numbers. Repeat. Or, practice
on www.xtramath.org.