April


 * **Week ** || **Monday ** || **Tuesday ** || **Wednesday ** || **Thursday ** ||
 * **1 ** || Choose 2 ordinary items from your house (shoe, pot, pan, bowl, etc.) Which item has the greatest capacity? How did you find out? || Discover how much your first name is worth if every consonant has a value of $5 and vowels are $10. Compare the value of your name with the people in your family. Whose name is worth the most? The least? || Based on yesterday’s problem, What is the value of all of the names in your family alltogether || A typical car measures about 15 feet long, and a typical bus measures about 40 feet long. How much longer is a bus than a car? ||
 * 2 ** || If a new neighbor moves in with pet dogs and birds, how many animals can there be if there are 10 legs altogether? Is there more than one answer? || An old saying claims that eating an apple a day will keep the doctor away. If you ate one apple a day, how many apples would you eat in one week? In two weeks? If you ate two apples a day, how many apples would you eat in one week? In two weeks? || How many wheels does a tricycle have? How many sides does a triangle have? Make a list of other words that start with //tri-,//. What do you think the prefi x //tri-// means? || Triceratops had three horns on its head. How many horns would you see in a family of 3 Triceratops dinosaurs? In a family of 5 Triceratops dinosaurs? ||
 * **3 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When stores are very busy, lines of customers at the cash registers get very long. One way cashiers can work quickly is by using the minimum number of coins possible when giving change to a customer. If you had to give a customer 53 cents in change, how many different coin combinations can you find to give this amount of change? || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Books are published all over the world. The publishing information is usually printed within a book’s first few pages. Sometimes more than one city is listed. (For this activity, use the first city listed.) Look at a sample of the books in your home library and list all the places where they were published. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use your list from Tuesday to create a graph showing where the books were published. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use your data to create another graph other than a bar graph. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Five curious cats went exploring in a freshly painted room. Four got paint on their front paws and one got paint on its back paws. How many paws didn't have any paint on them? || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Imagine that you have one penny, one nickel, and one dime. What amounts of money can you make using one, two, or all three coins? || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Conduct a survey to discover the most popular sport among your family and friends at home. Collect data from your family and friends. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Then organize your data from Tuesday into a graph to represent your survey results. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 10pt;">4 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Five curious cats went exploring in a freshly painted room. Four got paint on their front paws and one got paint on its back paws. How many paws didn't have any paint on them? || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Imagine that you have one penny, one nickel, and one dime. What amounts of money can you make using one, two, or all three coins? || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Conduct a survey to discover the most popular sport among your family and friends at home. Collect data from your family and friends. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Then organize your data from Tuesday into a graph to represent your survey results. ||