Summer Math Calendar
Going into Fourth Grade
Directions: Follow the daily activities to practice different math concepts. Feel free to extend any of the
activities listed.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Buy a small bag of M & M’s. Look at advertisements for Using a restaurant menu, Write the multiplication Draw two cards from a
Pour them into a jar. cars in the newspaper. have each family member and division fact families deck of cards (number
Name _________________
Estimate how many M & M’s Choose a car you like and decide what he/she would for the following sets of cards only). Find the sum
are in the jar. Count the round the price to the order. Find the total cost numbers: and difference of the
candy to see how close you nearest thousand. of all the meals they chose. cards.
are. 3, 5, and 15 Repeat this 10 times.
4, 6, and 24
2, 9, and 18
Measure your height in Create a time line for Gather 4 different boxes Estimate the weight of a Go to the store with a
inches. Measure the height yesterday beginning at the of food such as rice or handful of coins. Weigh parent. Record the time
of a parent. Write and time at which you woke up cereal. Measure the width them to find their actual you arrive and the time you
solve an equation to and ending at the time you of each box in inches and weight and calculate the leave. How much time did
determine how much taller went to bed. Include at centimeters. Which box is difference between your you spend in the store?
your parent is than you. least 8 events on your time the thinnest? Which box is estimate and the actual
line. the widest? weight. Repeat this with
other items.
Determine what time it is Survey 10 people and ask Roll two dice. Multiply the Flip a coin 10 times. Record What is the greatest and
now. What time will it be in them what their favorite two numbers rolled and how many times it landed on the least number you can
one half hour from now? animal is. Create a bar write an equation to show heads and tails. Multiply those make using the digits 1, 4,
Forty- five minutes from graph to show your results. this. Repeat this 10 times. two numbers together. Now 8, 2, 3 and 7? You may use
have a friend do the same.
now? each digit only once in a
Repeat this 4 times. The
number.
person with the highest
product wins.
Make a list (with products Take turns rolling 3 dice Write an equation showing See how many different Count the number of
with a partner. After each turn
up to 100) of all the how 12 cookies could be ways you can divide 20 windows and doors in your
find the product of the 3
multiplication facts that numbers. Record your products shared between 2, 3, 4, and colored pencils or crayons home. Determine if these
are doubles (ex. 1 x 1= 1). and add them together after each 6 children. equally. Write a division numbers are odd or even.
turn. The first person to reach equation for each way you
500 wins.
find.
Summer Math Going into Fourth
Grade
Directions: Follow the daily activities to practice different math concepts. Feel free to extend any of the
activities listed.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Find the mean of the Count out fifty cards from Have a multiplication bee Roll two dice. Write the Weigh yourself on the
number of pages of your 3 a deck. See how many with another family four multiplication and scale. Multiply the number
favorite chapter books. different ways you can member using flash cards. division fact family of pounds by your age.
(Hint: find the total divide them into equal sentences that include
number of pages and divide groups. Write your division these two numbers.
by the number of books.) sentences on paper.
Draw two shapes below. Find 10 items in your house Go outside and gather as Look in the newspaper to Count the number of
Color ½ of each shape red. that are less than one foot many rocks or pebbles as find out how many minutes letters in each family
Color ¼ of each shape blue. long. Estimate how many you can in 10 minutes. long a movie you would like member’s names. Find the
inches long each item is. Count how many you have to see is. Multiply the mean of these numbers by
Measure the items and and multiply this number number of minutes by 2. adding these numbers
find the difference by 6 to see how Determine how many hours together and dividing by
between your many rocks you could and minutes this is. the number of names you
estimates and the actual gather in one hour (60 used.
lengths of the items. minutes).
If your family ordered two Using a small bag of Find a chapter book you Count the money in your Find out what the running
pizzas for dinner and each pretzels, lay the pretzels want to read. If you were piggy bank or gather a speed in miles per hour of
pizza had 8 slices in it, how out in even rows. (You may to read this book in handful of coins and seven different animals is.
many pieces of pizza would eat any leftovers.) Divide exactly one week, how determine the value. If Determine the median of
each of your family the total number of many pages would you have you had to spend all these numbers. (Hint: list
members be able to have pretzels by the number of to read each day, if you of it within 5 days, how the speeds from least to
(they each must have the rows. Repeat this several read the same number of much money would you greatest and find the
same number of pieces). times by making a pages each day? Start have to spend each day? number that is in the
What could you do with different number of even reading the book today and (You must spend the same middle of the list.) Repeat
any left-over pieces? rows. see if you can finish it amount of money each this with other types of
within seven days. day.) information.
