Second Grade, Math, Set Seven

This last planning week was also the week before our middle daughter's wedding, and making the detailed plans for math just didn't happen. So I have picked up books at the library with projects and games for us to do each week.

• We are continuing to complete one lesson in Map Mysteries and Mirror Magic each week.
• Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy -- this is a great book because it not only gives the assignment so you can do it, it teaches how to do it, and it is a fun story to read. The book is about a school project using measurement. The book explains the project completely and then describes how Lisa did her project.
• We read the book one day
• On two succeeding days we completed our own project following the assignment in the book.
• It's Probably Penny by Loreen Leedy -- this book follows in the same style as the above book, except it is about probability.
• We read the book one day
• The next we completed the assignment.
• Exploring Numbers by Andrew King
• We played the game, Fifteen!; this is a game for two players. K. liked this game and wants to play it again.
• Make a board with the numbers 1 through 9 on it.
• Each player needs five markers.
• The players take turns covering one number at a time.
• The winner is the first person to cover numbers that add up to 15. If you go over 15, you lose.
• We added the rule that you have to use at least three numbers.
• After using the board with 1 through 9 on it a couple times, we decided to make a board with twelve numbers: it has two each of numbers 1 - 4 and 6, one 5 and one 7. This board was a lot more fun and worked better.
• Plotting Points and Positions by Andrew King
• We played the game, Coordinates
• Make a game board that is a graph with numbers 0 - 6 across the bottom and up the side.
• Lay out the dominos from a double six set upside down.
• Players take turns turning over dominos and putting their markers at the coordinates it shows.
• We played that you could turn the domino around to get the coordinate that was the most to our advantage. For instance, a domino with 4 dots and 6 dots could be (4,6) or (6,4). Remember, horizontal number is first.
• Scoring Points: Every time you can place a marker, you score a point. If you make a line of two markers, score two points. A line of three scores three points, and so on.
• The player with the highest score after twelve turns wins.
• Shape Up! by David Adler
• Some of this book was review (like triangles), some was new (like quadrilateral), and some was beyond her (like obtuse and acute).
• This book has some fun ways to explore shapes, like cutting a triangle out of cheese and making shapes with pretzels and a slice of bread.
• Sir Cumference and the Viking's Map by Cindy Neuschwander
• This book is a story that introduces the X and Y axis and positive and negative numbers of a coordinate graph.