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We hid at least 10 numbers inside the logo. Print this image and use your kids' help to find all of them. 
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Kids love playing restaurant. A tedious school lunch preparation may be turned into a fun order-and-pick-up your lunch. Make a menu of all the choices: main courses, fruits and vegetables. Decorate the menu and make multiple copies. Let kids make their selections at the beginning of the week or a night before. Even saying "Sorry, we are out of Mac-and-Cheese today" in this context would be accepted with a much better attitude. At the end of the week, analyze your selections together. What are the most popular items and combinations? How many total combinations of main courses and fruit-and-veggies were available?
Read more about math of breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Before taking your next flight, try visualizing your route on the globe. Take a piece of thread and hold one side of it at your departure point and another side at your destination. Pull thread to lie tightly on the globe's surface. The curve made by this thread is your shortest route. Perhaps you can spot something interesting on the way and make an extra stop. Impress your kids and other passengers with this knowledge. Read more about the great circle and the shortest distance between two points on the globe. 
If people on TV appear heavier than people around you, and not the other way around, see whether you need to adjust your TV's display options.
Do you know that math can help minimize your daily commute? If you are considering a relocation or contemplating a new job offer - use this cool web tool to minimize your entire, combined household's commute: www.OptimalHomeLocation.com
Do you trust your teenager to not drink-and-drive? Use this cool math trick to test her/his awareness level over the phone?
Use this math trick to declare clear closet clean-up guidelines for your mess makers. Define a ratio of order vs mess. A ratio between a number of properly shelved items to a number of messed up items. When it gets to 1 - time to re-organize. Read about more uses of signal-to-noise ratio.
Summer brings abundance of math toys: fragrant, smooth, sweet, colorful delights to count, compare, measure and then gobble up. Do all the snap pea pods host the same number of peas? Make a heirloom tomato contest to encourage some tasting and play with math. Measure your height in carrots and then fence with them. Here are some specific summer math game ideas. |
Does this sounds familiar: You put a dirty plate in, you take a clean plate out. And you repeat it all around again and again?
See if you can organize your house optimally and intuitively. Can guests staying overnight find clean towels and make tea or coffee in the morning? How many steps does it take you to change wet sheet in the middle of the night? Are you shelving plastic dishes low enough for your kids to serve themselves? Encourage participation and simplify your life.
Do you like crispy brownie edges or soft chocolate-rich middle squares? Can you design a brownie pan where all the squares would have at least two edges? Do some fun math brainstorming with your family and then check out this solution and try solving the cheese puzzle.
Impress your kids by guessing their height from their shadow on a sunny day. You probably know your height. If not - look it up on your drivers license. Stand next to your kid, with the sun behind you, and ask someone to mark your and your kid's shadows. Then, compute together:
kid's height / height of kid's shadow = your height / height of your shadow from this: kid's height = your height x height of kid's shadow / height of your shadow Read how the height of Egyptian pyramids was measured from their shadow.
Make a Cryptographic Treasure Hunt Game for you child's next birthday. Buy loads of candy or some other treasure and hide it in a secret place. Write a note describing this place (e.g. "Where sweet dreams come to you," if you hid the treasure bag under your child's pillow). Above each word in this sentence write the number corresponding to the word's order in the sentence.
Cut the sentence, with scissors, into words. Hide each word in a separate place. Create a pirate style clue map drawing of your home or describe where each word is hidden. Tell your kids that each word by itself does not have any meaning, but by combining all the words they will have a "key" to the treasure place. 
You have probably seen some very serious people rolling a single wheel across the street. They surely could not be suspected as clowning around on a unicycle. They are measuring the length of a road in this very cool way, and you can try this fun math activity too. |