First Grade Everyday Math Extensions Unit 8 Mental Arithmetic, Money & Fractions

Unit 8 Lesson 1 Rewritten from Everyday Math for independent student work by the Denver Public Schools Gifted and Talented Department, 2012 Coin Riddles Use Math Master, page 223 to solve some riddles about counting coins. Use the coins in your tool-kit to help you. Problem 4 asks you to make up your own riddle! 223

Unit 8 Lesson 2 Rewritten from Everyday Math for independent student work by the Denver Public Schools Gifted and Talented Department, 2012 Make a Dollar Book Get several pieces of blank paper to make your book. On each page show a combination of coins that total one dollar. You may use coin stamps, if they are available, or you may draw them like this: Staple your pages together to make a book. Example: N P D Q Q Q Q Q

Unit 8 Lesson 3 Rewritten from Everyday Math for independent student work by the Denver Public Schools Gifted and Talented Department, Digit Numbers You will need a deck of number cards and a partner. Each partner takes 3 number cards and tries to make the largest possible 3-digit number. The partner with the larger number takes all the cards. Keep playing until all the cards are used

Unit 8 Lesson 4 Rewritten from Everyday Math for independent student work by the Denver Public Schools Gifted and Talented Department, 2012 Spending Ten Dollars You will need some advertisements from the newspaper and some paper and a pencil. Pretend you and your partner have $10.00 to spend. Make a list of at least 5 things you would buy that would total to about $

Unit 8 Lesson 4, page 2 Draw a picture of the items and put the price next to it. Write the number model (problem) to find the total and then use a calculator. Example: total = $ ¢ $1.29 $ ¢ $ ¢ 59¢ + $ $ ¢ + $ ¢ = ______ OR.59 $ $ $

Unit 8 Lesson 6 Rewritten from Everyday Math for independent student work by the Denver Public Schools Gifted and Talented Department, 2012 Sharing Cereal You will need: 3 measuring cups, – small, medium and large, a bowl Math Master, page 237 a blank piece of paper Your teacher will put 1 cup of cereal into your bowl. 237

Unit 8 Lesson 6, page 2 Follow the directions on the Math Master, using the clean piece of paper to put your cereal scoops on. When you finish with one scoop, pour all the cereal back into the bowl and start again with the next size scoop. When you are done, answer the questions about how many friends could share the cereal.

Unit 8 Lesson 7 Rewritten from Everyday Math for independent student work by the Denver Public Schools Gifted and Talented Department, 2012 Making a Fraction Book You will need some copies of Math Master, p Look for or think about objects that can be divided into equal parts. Draw one object on the Math Master. Divide it into equal parts and color in one of the parts. This object is divided into 4 equal parts. I shaded ¼ of the object. 239