Activity Board Blue

Activity Board
Activity board is Magnetic and covered in chalk paint. It can stand securely in a stand, or be
mounted on the wall. It is about 6 feet tall. See reference scale picture below:
It is at my house and ready to rock and Roll.

Activity board will be a sponge learning activity.
Activities will be updated weekly.
Refer to attachment 1: Activity Board diagram to see placement of numbered items 1- 15 on
activity board:
1. The math problem My dad asked me since I was 5, whats 99 X 99? and expected me
to be able to figure out without a pencil if I forgot (99 X 100 99)
2. Brain Teasers see attachment 2: brain teasers, for samples
3. My coonhound Bosephus looking very focused and determined to remind all of us to do
the same.
4. Map OF USA for students to explore scale on map
5. Carpenter measure tape measure for students to measure items and explore fractions
6. Retractable measuring tape for students to measure items and explore fractions
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7. Lego Manipulatives for students to explore parts and whole
8. Lego Manipulatives for students to median and mean
9. Lego Manipulatives for students to explore factors
10. Lego Manipulatives for students to explore fractions:
Source: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2013/12/using-lego-build-math-concept
11. Soduko Puzzles

12. Laminated Soduko Rules for new Sudoku user (see attachment 3: Sudoku Rules)
13. Blank Sudoku grid to make a puzzle
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14. Graphs, questions about graphs

15. Guidelines for students to make future activity suggestion:
It has to be a quiet activity.
It cannot involve spending money to do it!
You have to be able to do it alone.
It has to be in good taste.
Teacher has the final approval.
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Attachment 2: Sample Brain Teasers (1/3)
Brain Teaser: Number Tricks

Ms. Arroyo asked the class to see if they could find the sum of the first 50 odd numbers.
As everyone settled down to their addition, Terry ran to her and said, "The sum is 2,500."
Ms. Arroyo thought, "Lucky guess," and gave him the task of finding the sum of the first
75 odd numbers. Within 20 seconds, Terry was back with the correct answer of 5,625.
How does Terry find the sum so quickly?
Hint Number Tricks: Consecutive odd numbers are 1, 3, 5, 7....
Start with the first several odd numbers and look for a pattern.
Answer Number Tricks: The following pattern holds: The sum is equal to n x n, when
n is the number of consecutive odd numbers, starting with 1. For example, the sum of the
first 3 odd numbers is equal to 3 x 3, or 9; the sum of the first 4 odd numbers is equal to 4
x 4, or 16; the sum of the first 5 odd numbers is equal to 5 x 5, or 25; and so on.
Diophantus was a Greek mathematician who lived in the third century. He was one of the
first mathematicians to use algebraic symbols.
Brain Teaser: Father of Algebra

Most of what is known about Diophantus's life comes from an algebraic riddle from
around the early sixth century. The riddle states:
Diophantus's youth lasted one sixth of his life. He grew a beard after one twelfth more.
After one seventh more of his life, he married. 5 years later, he and his wife had a son.
The son lived exactly one half as long as his father and Diophantus died four years after
his son.
How many years did Diophantus live?
Answer Father of Algebra: The riddle, the "facts" of which may or may not be true,
results in the following equation:
x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + x/2 + 4 = x
where x is Diophantus's age at the time of his death.
Therefore, Diophantus lived exactly 84 years.
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Brain Teaser Palindrome time :

On a 12-hour digital clock, what is the smallest interval between two times that are
palindromic (can be read forwards and backwards as the same number)?
Hint Palindrome time: It's shorter than 10 minutes!
Answer Palindrome time: The interval is two minutes, between the times of 9:59 and
10:01.
Brain Teaser Feed the Campers

Camp Pineveiw's cook, Margaret Johnson, was just about to begin preparing the picnic
lunch for all the campers. She already knew she needed to fill 55 bowls of the same size
and capacity with the same amount of food.. The guidelines said:
1. Every camper gets their own bowl of soup.
2. Every two campers will get one bowl of spaghetti to share.
3. Every three campers will get one bowl of salad to share.
4. All campers are required to have their own helping of salad, spaghetti, and soup.
After some rapid calculations, Margaret was able to figure out how many campers were
going to the picnic. Can you?
Hint Feed the Campers: If there were only six campers, there would be six bowls of
soup, three bowls of spaghetti, and two bowls of salad.
Answer Feed the Campers: 30 campers.
Brain Teaser: Double trouble

Read the little poem and answer its question if you can.
The number of girls who do wear a watch
is double the number who don't.
But the number of boys who do not wear a watch
is double the number who do.
If I tell you the number of girls in my class
is double the number of boys,
Can you tell me the number I teach? Here's a clue:
More than 20; below 32!
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Answer: 27
Solution: The number of boys must be a multiple of 3 (3, 6, 9...) so that it can be split in
the ratio of 2:1
The number of girls is double the no. of boys (6, 12, 18...)
So the totals can only be 9, 18, 27...
Brain Teaser Monks on stairs

A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First he climbs
up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces
east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He
takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the
remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?
Hint Monk :He climbs halfway, which is step 25. He hears the bird singing on step 33.
He picks up the pebble on the 21st step and tosses it on the 22nd step. The remaining 27
steps are taken three at a time which is 9 paces.
Brain Teaser: Half the Square

You have a piece of paper, 10cm by 10cm. Area = 100cm^2. For some reason, you need
a square piece of paper with an area of 50cm^2. Using the paper you have, what's an easy
way of getting the new square?
Hint Half the Square : Try it with a piece of paper, doesn't matter the size of the
square, try to find a square half its size inside it
Answer: Fold the four corners of the square into the center. This doubles the thickness
of the paper, and so halves the area.
Brain Teaser: Circle of Children

A number of children are standing in a circle. They are evenly spaced and the 7th child is
directly opposite the 18th child. How many children are there altogether?
Circle of Children Hint: how many children are in half the circle
Circle of children Answer: 22; in half of the circle there are 11 children because 187=11. Multiply 11x2=22
Monk Answer: There are 49 steps.
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Attachment 3: Sudoku Rules

A Sudoku puzzle is a grid of nine by nine squares or cells that has been subdivided into nine
subgrids or "regions" of three by three cells. See the following diagram:
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Each vertical column (shown in yellow) contains each digit exactly once
Each subgrid or region (shown in green) contains each digit exactly once
This explains the name of the game; in Japanese, Sudoku means something like "numbers
singly".
Solving a Sudoku puzzle does not require knowledge of mathematics; simple logic suffices.
(Instead of digits, other symbols can be used, e.g. letters, as long as there are nine different
symbols.)
In each Sudoku puzzle, several digits have already been entered (the "givens"); these may not be
changed.
The puzzler's job is to fill the remainder of the grid with digits respecting, of course, the three
constraints mentioned earlier.
A "good" Sudoku puzzle has only one solution.
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It is at my house and ready to rock and Roll.

7. Lego Manipulatives for students to explore parts and whole

8. Lego Manipulatives for students to median and mean

9. Lego Manipulatives for students to explore factors

10. Lego Manipulatives for students to explore fractions:

11. Soduko Puzzles

14. Graphs, questions about graphs

Attachment 2: Sample Brain Teasers (1/3)

Brain Teaser: Number Tricks

Brain Teaser: Father of Algebra

Attachment 2: Sample Brain Teasers (2/3)

Brain Teaser Palindrome time :

Brain Teaser Feed the Campers

Answer Feed the Campers: 30 campers.

Brain Teaser: Double trouble

Attachment 2: Sample Brain Teasers (3/3)

Brain Teaser Monks on stairs

Brain Teaser: Half the Square

Brain Teaser: Circle of Children

Monk Answer: There are 49 steps.

Attachment 3: Sudoku Rules

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