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Straight Through The Doors 4 Multi-digit Multiplication & Division
A Packing We Will Go 5 Operations
Over The River… 6 Operations/ Multi-step
To Have a Full Day of Play 7 Decimal Place Value Skills
Hurrah For Fun 8 Operations, Decimals, & Money
The Pudding’s Done 9 Operations/ Multi-step
They Bake So Dreadfully Slow 10 Fractions and Decimals (Out of 100)
Trot Fast My Wrapping Hand 12 Perimeter & Area
Hurrah For Pumpkin Pie 11 Fractions
It Stings The Toes 13-14 Data And Graphing
…Through the tree filled woods 15-16 Factors and Multiples
Trim The Tree 17 Operations & Problem Solving
For It Is Christmas Day 18 Elapsed Time
The Horse Knows The Way 19 Research & Problem Solving
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 TO GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE WE GO
Hurrah! It is time for the holidays, and what better way to
prepare than to imagine a magical visit to grandmother's
house? The traditional Thanksgiving song, “Over the River
and Through the Woods” has been around since 1844 and,
over the years, has been adapted to celebrate Christmas
Day! Lucky for you, you get to go on your very own trip to
grandmother’s house. Get ready, because it’s going to be a
good one (and did I mention, a math-filled one?)!
Over the river and through the woods
To Grandmother's house we go.
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh
Through white and drifted snow.
Over the river and through the woods,
Oh, how the wind does blow.
It stings the toes and bites the nose
As over the ground we go.
Over the river and through the woods
To have a full day of play.
Oh, hear the bells ringing ting-a-ling-ling,
For it is Christmas Day.
Over the river and through the woods,
Trot fast my dapple gray;
Spring o'er the ground just like a hound,
For this is Christmas Day.
Over the river and through the woods
And straight through the barnyard gate.
It seems that we go so dreadfully slow;
It is so hard to wait.
Over the river and through the woods,
Now Grandma's cap I spy.
Hurrah for fun; the pudding's done;
Hurrah for the pumpkin pie.
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Straight Through The {Store Doors}
It’s time to get ready for your trip. What does (almost) everyone do before they go on a road
trip? Go to the store! Pick up those last minute toiletries, some fresh clothes, and maybe a new
piece of luggage or two. Complete the tables below to buy new items for your family.
At the Luggage Shop
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Small Luggage $89 $267

Large Luggage 5 $625
Duffel Bag 6 $76
Toiletry Bag $33 $198
Total Cost:
Fresh and Clean Christmas Clothes
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Sweaters 6 $168
Jeans $47 $141
Shoes 4 $236
Undershirts 12 $13
Total Cost:
Toiletries for the Trip
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Mini Toothpaste 3 $6
Soap $3 $18
Shampoo & Conditioner $5 $25
Lotion 6
Total Cost: $97

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 A Packing We Will Go
Your luggage can only hold so much! You are in charge of packing your own suitcases (1 of each type), but each
suitcase has a weight limit. Pack your suitcases wisely by selecting the items you need, the quantity you need of
each, and get as close as you can to the maximum weight of each piece of luggage.
(TAKE NOTE: You will be at grandmother’s house for 7 days!)

MAXIMUM WEIGHTS REMEMBER: 16 OUNCES = 1 POUND

Small Luggage Large Luggage Duffel Bag Toiletry Bag
25 pounds 40 pounds 22 pounds 4 pounds
___ oz. ___ oz. ___ oz. ___ oz.
Clothes Toiletries Extra Goodies
Small Luggage
Item Weight Item Weight Item Weight
Shirts 7 oz. Shampoo 3 oz. Camera 15 oz.
Item
# Weight

Sweaters 22 oz. Conditioner 3 oz. iPod 8 oz.

Jeans 26 oz. Body Poof 2 oz. Headphones 6 oz.
Dress Pants 17 oz. Body Wash 5 oz. Novel 8 oz.
Undershirts 6 oz. Toothbrush 1 oz. Playing Cards 5 oz.
Socks 2 oz. Toothpaste 2 oz. iPad 2 lbs.
Belts 12 oz. Lotion 6 oz. Trinkets 3 lbs.
Underwear 3 oz. Hair Brush 7 oz. Laptop 4 lbs.
Pajamas 20 oz. Deodorant 12 oz. Boots 3 lbs.

LARGE LUGGAGE DUFFEL BAG TOILETRY BAG

Item # Weight Item # Weight Item # Weight

TOTAL WEIGHT OF ALL FOUR SUITCASES:_________________

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Over The River And Through The Woods
Your trip to grandmother’s house will be by car. (Don’t worry about being bored. You packed
your iPod, right?) You will need to figure out how much you will spend on gas, the distance you
will travel, and how much your family will spend on snacks along the way. And we’re off!

THEN & NOW

The Horse-Drawn Sleigh The Car
Your car can drive an average of 60 Miles Per
The sleigh can move about 8 Miles Per Hour. If
Hour. Using the information from the sleigh,
it takes 56 hours of riding to get to Grandma’s
how many hours would it take to get to
on a sleigh, how many miles are you traveling?
grandmother’s house?

_______________ _______________
If you had to take four 8-hour breaks during If you had to take four 30-minute breaks during
your trip (to let the horses rest, of course), your trip (to fill up on gas), how long would it
how long would it take you to get there in total? take you to get there in total?

_______________ _______________
It costs roughly $180 per month to feed a
horse. If you have to feed your horse for each Gas costs about $3 per gallon. You can drive
day of the trip to grandma’s (see above, and about 23 miles for every gallon of gas. About
don’t include the trip home), how much would how much will you spend on gas?

_______________
you pay to feed them on the trip there?

_______________
Gas Station Goodies ROAD TRIP RUMBLINGS
At one of the gas station stops, you find At each of your four stops, you select
Chips $3 several receipts on the ground. All you can some goodies. You have a $25 budget
see is the amount spent and the number of for the day. Use a data display
Soda $2 each item that was bought. Complete the below to show what you buy at each
table below. Each line is a different receipt. stop and how much it costs.
Icee $4
# of Items Cost Per Total Cost
Juice $1 Bought Item on Receipt
Candy $5 6 $18

Donuts $8 $24
$8
9 $7
Chex Mix $7
12 $72
Hot dog $6 $4 $32
Nachos $9 4 $5

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 To Have A Full Day Of Play!
You’ve arrived at grandmother’s, and oh boy, does she have some very exciting events
planned for you! First up, you will decorate a gingerbread house! Grandma challenges you
to a friendly competition– not to build the sturdiest house, and not to see which house is
most beautiful…. Instead, the competition is all based on your candy value! Each piece of
décor has a different value, and each candy is worth the value noted in the table below.
# ON GRANDMA’S
CANDY VALUE PER PIECE
HOUSE

Candy Button 1
Candy Ring 10
Candy Stick 1,000
Candy Arch 10,000
Peppermint 100,000
Lollipop .10
Gumdrop .01
Grandmother’s Work of Art
GRANDMA’S HOUSE VALUE:
Now that you’ve found the total value of
CANDY # ON YOUR HOUSE
grandmother’s house, here is the final value
Candy Button of YOUR house! Fill in the chart to show how
many of each candy you put on your house.
Candy Ring
Who was the big winner of the gingerbread house
Candy Stick competition and by how much? Explain how you know.
Candy Arch
Peppermint
Lollipop
Gumdrop
YOUR HOUSE VALUE: 52,056.58
 Hurrah For Fun {And Presents}!

Santa’s Toy Shop

Gifts For All of Your Holiday Shopping Needs

ALIEN REMOTE CAR HANDBAG SOCCER BALL BALL CAP LAMP

$189.28

UNICYCLE DISGUISE TELESCOPE PUPPY NOVEL SWEATER

You and grandma head out shopping for gifts. Decide who you need to shop for, then fill
in a table for each person you will get gifts for. Add up the total cost of the gifts, and
then write what combination of bills you will use to pay for your gifts.
Gifts For __________________ Gifts For __________________
Gift Cost Gift Cost

How to Pay: Total Cost: How to Pay: Total Cost:

Gifts For __________________ Gifts For __________________

Gift Cost Gift Cost

How to Pay: Total Cost: How to Pay: Total Cost:

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 The Pudding’s {Almost} Done!
It’s time to go grocery shopping with grandma! You need to get enough groceries to serve a
family of 12. Use the chart below to answer the questions.
Food Servings Weight Cost Food Servings Weight Cost

Potatoes 4 38 oz. $3 Cranberries 4 12 oz. $3

Sweet Potatoes 2 21 oz. $4 Tamales 2 6 oz. $2
Stuffing 4 6 oz. $3 Gravy 4 14 oz. $1
Green Beans 2 14 oz. $2 Dinner Rolls 6 6 oz. $3
Carrots 5 12 oz. $2 Apple Pie 8 37 oz. $5
Ham 6 80 oz.. $15 Cookies 12 24 oz. $6
Turkey 6 96 oz. $22 Gingerbread 6 14 oz. $5
Design a meal that will feed your family of six, and answer the questions below!

Make a list of the foods How many of each item How much will each item
you want to have at will you need to have a cost you to buy, when you
your meal. serving for all 12 people? are buying it for all 12?

How much will the entire How much will each item How much will the entire
meal cost you? weigh, when you are meal weigh?
buying it for all 12?

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 It Seems {They Bake} So Dreadfully Slow!
It’s a bake-a-thon! Grandma surprised you with another day of fun, and this time you are decorating
cookies! By the end of the day, you have a whopping 100 cookies rolled, cut, baked, decorated, and
ready to deliver to your friends and neighbors. First, use the table below to figure out how many of
each type you have and convert the amount to both a fraction and decimal of the entire batch.
NUMBER Now it’s time to distribute the goodies!
COOKIE SHAPE BAKED FRACTION DECIMAL
The plate below shows how many cookies
you kept for yourself. What fraction of
Candy Cane 6/50 the entire batch did you keep?
Star 4/50

Snowman 15

Tree .13

Present 2/10

Gingerbread .18

Reindeer 14

‘Tis the season for giving! You give the remaining cookies away to some of
grandma’s friends and neighbors. Fill in the chart to figure out how many cookies
each neighbor gets! Be sure to use the information from the first chart as well
as the information about how many of each cookie YOU kept to fill in the blanks!
Decimal

FAMILY
Fraction
of the
of the
entire
leftovers
batch

The Winters’
3 0 6 1 2
The Cavins
4 2 1 6 .17
The Monteros
2 2 5 5 1
The Salaskos
0 2 5 2 6 3
 Hurrah For The Pumpkin Pie!
While Grandma bakes the pumpkin pie, she has you do a little math.
Complete the table below to help grandma double her pie recipe.

Original Improper Simplest

Ingredient Visual Fraction Doubled
Amount Fraction Form

Pie Crust 2 6/8 Cups

Pumpkin 2 2/4 Cups

Cream 1 3/4 Cup

Flour 1 7/8 Cup

Cinnamon 3 3/6 TBSP

Nutmeg 2 2/3 TBSP

Sugar 1 2/6 Cup

Brown
½ Cup
Sugar
A MOUTHFUL OF MATH
Use the information above to answer the following questions
You buy sugar by the pound. One pound of
For the original recipe, how much more sugar is required than brown sugar? sugar has 1 ¼ cups of sugar in it. How
many pounds of sugar would you need to
___________________ buy to be sure you have enough for the
In the double recipe, how much more pie crust is there than pumpkin? doubled recipe? Explain.

___________________ _______________________
_______________________
In the doubled recipe, how much sugar (brown included) is in the pie total?
_______________________
___________________
_______________________
How much more flour do you need than cream (in the doubled recipe)? _______________________
___________________ _______________________
How much cinnamon and nutmeg do you need for the original recipe? _______________________
___________________ _______________________
_______________________
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 Trot Fast My Wrapping Hand!
It’s time to wrap your gifts! For each of the gifts below, you cut out rectangular pieces of wrapping paper
that are the perfect size. Follow the directions below to figure out what to cut.

Present #1 The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below.

Area=
_____________
2 feet

Perimeter=
____________

4 feet

Present #2 The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below.
Area= 264 square inches
Perimeter= 68 inches
Label possible dimensions of
the wrapping paper to make
the above statements about
its area and perimeter true.

Present #3 Present number 3 is quadruple the size of present #1.

Label its dimensions and find the area and perimeter.

Area=_____________ Perimeter=____________
*BONUS* On a separate sheet of paper, Present #4: Area= 48 square inches
create rectangles of wrapping paper that
fit the following rules (label your Present #5: Perimeter= 50 inches
dimensions and find the total A and P). Present #6: Area= 35 square inches
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It Stings The Toes And Bites The Nose!
Grandma loves to read about the weather around the world,
especially this time of year. She pulls out the weather table from the
newspaper and has you practice some essential math skills with it.
Key Location Average High Average Low
A Denver, Colorado 45° 18°
B Chicago, Illinois 35° 20°
C Syracuse, New York 36° 21°
D Orlando, Florida 72° 51°
E Amite, Louisiana 63° 40°
F Seattle, Washington 47° 38°
G Arlington, Virginia 47° 32°
Complete the tasks on the following page, then answer the questions below.

Task #1 Task #2 Task #3

Write 5 questions that Write 5 questions that can
Create a graph can be answered by
be answered by adding,
displaying the data. subtracting, multiplying, or
observing the data. dividing using the data.

Arrange the average high Arrange the average low Find the city with the biggest
temperatures in order temperatures in order difference between the
from greatest to least. from least to greatest. average high temperature and
the average low temperature.

Find the city with the smallest

difference between the
average high temperature and
the average low temperature.

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 It Stings The Toes And Bites The Nose! 2
Use the space below to create a graph displaying the data.

Task #2 Task #3

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 …Through The {Tree-filled}Woods

TREE LOT DESIGN

Hooray! You have arrived at the tree farm to select the perfect tree! You are fascinated by the
lovely trees all in rows and decide to strike up a conversation with the jolly old elf in charge of
the farm. As you read the exchange, highlight or underline important mathematical information.
Then use the information to complete the tasks on the following page.
Curious Kiddo: “Wow! This tree farm is amazing. You must have hundreds of
trees growing here.”
Tree Elf: “Oh, well if you think this is a lot, you should have seen it before! At
the beginning of the season, we had trees as far as the eyes could see. Do you
see those miniature firs? We started the year with over 240 of those
beauties! We had four groves, each arranged in equal rows of 12. Two and a
half of the groves have already been wiped out!
Curious Kiddo: “No kidding? People must love the miniature firs! How about
those trees across the way?”
Tree Elf: “Oh, those are the Fraser firs! They are the most popular Christmas
tree in America. I planted those babies all the way back in 2011 and they are
finally ready for prime time. I’ll never forget all the work it took! We planted
42 of them in each grove, all in equal rows. We repeated that six times for all
six groves. Needless to say, our backs were sure sore that night!
Curious Kiddo: “You mean to tell me you plant them all by hand?”
Tree Elf: “Oh yes, indeed. Christmas tree farms are hard work. That single
grove of Douglas firs! Oh, I’ll tell you what! The soil was rough, and it tested
my patience, but I planted all 72 of those trees, in equal rows of course, by
hand. My elf assistants were busy that day, so it was a solo job!”
Curious Kiddo: “I’m so glad we came here. I can tell you put a lot of love and
care into your farm. What about those wreaths over there? How do you grow
those?”
Tree Elf: “Ah, I wish we could grow wreaths! That would make my job easier.
Alas, I grow the trees and make the wreaths with their beautiful evergreen
leaves. It’s toward the back, so you may not be able to see it, but we have an
evergreen grove with 36 trees planted in two equal rows, all grown just for the
purpose of wreaths!”
Curious Kiddo: “Those wreaths look heavy. Are they?”
Tree Elf: “Well, they come in three different sizes. Smalls are only two pounds,
the mediums are three pounds, and the larges are enormous! They weigh in at
over eight pounds per wreath.”
Curious Kiddo: “Thank you so much for taking the time to teach me about your
farm. I’m fascinated! I better catch up to grandma and get to picking out our
new tree. Happy holidays!”
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 …Through The {Tree-filled}Woods 2

Use the information in the conversation to fill in the chart below.

NUMBER OF
TREE TYPE TREES PER GROVE TOTAL NUMBER DIMENSIONS
GROVES
Miniature
Firs
Fraser Firs
Douglas
Firs
Evergreen
Later, you observe several groups of people walking out with many, many wreaths with
which to decorate their doors and windows! Most are far too heavy to carry, so they
are pulling them by wagon. Complete the chart to show the total weight of the stacks
of wreaths depending on whether they bought small, medium, or large wreaths.
NUMBER OF WREATHS PURCHASED

2 4 5 6 8
WREATH
WEIGHT EACH
TYPE

Small
Medium
Large
Explain how knowledge of factors and multiples helped you fill in the table above.
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
BONUS: On a blank piece of paper, draw the tree
farm based on the information in the conversation.
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 Trim The Tree, Ring-ting-a-ling!
TREE LOT SALES
It’s only a few days before The Big Day, and you are off to buy a tree for Grandma’s house. You
start chatting with the salesman, and he gives you some interesting information.
So far this year, they have made $4,410 from the sales of the small Christmas trees. You look
over and see that each of those trees cost $35. Complete the math to figure out how many
they have sold.

You count the number of small Christmas trees left. There are 22. How
much more money will they make if they sell all of the Christmas trees?

Grandma doesn’t want a small tree, so the salesman brings you over to the biggest, most beautiful trees
you’ve seen. You peek at the price. $145! The salesman says this is his best seller, and he is sure he will
sell at least 25 of them today. If he sells as many as he hopes, how much will he make on these trees today?

Fill in the table with information about the lights you and grandma choose to buy for the tree.
Glistening Lights To Adorn the Tree
Length per String Total # of Strings Total Length of
Lights Cost Per String Total Cost
(Feet) Purchased Lights (Inches)

Twinkling
Snowflakes 3 feet 4 $19
Multi-Colored
Bulbs 4 feet 288 Inches $78
Snow White
Bulbs 7 336 Inches $12
Blinking Bulbs 5 feet 2 $30
Total Cost for Lights:
Grandma lets you choose ornaments. She wants you to get 4 of one kind, 7 of another kind,
Ornament Cost Per
8 of another kind, and 13 of your favorite type of ornament.
Happiness $4 Create a table below to show your selections, each ornaments total cost, and your TOTAL cost.

Snowfall $6

Striped $3

Love Hearts $9

Candy Cane $8

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 FOR IT IS CHRISTMAS DAY!
It’s Christmas, and you have had a full day of baking, cooking,
unwrapping, eating, and playing! Take a look at your Christmas “schedule”
below and determine how much time you spent on each activity.

Timespan Activity Elapsed Time

Awake in bed.
4:30-6:05am (Can’t Sleep! Santa’s coming!) _____________
Fell back asleep.
6:05-6:20am (Woke back up! Too excited!) _____________
Trying to wake mom & dad.
6:20-6:45am (WAKE UP, ALREADY!) _____________
Passing out presents
6:45-7:30am (Woohoo!!) _____________
Coffee break for Grandma
7:30-7:47am (Who needs coffee? Presents!!) _____________
PRESENTS!!
7:47-9:35am (Best day ever!) _____________
Breakfast Break
9:35-10:07am (Cinnamon rolls are worth it!) _____________
MORE PRESENTS!!
10:07-11:15am (We open ONE at a time!) _____________
Baking Pies & Cookies
11:15-1:12pm (Get in my belly!) _____________
Playtime!
1:12-2:45pm (Where do I start?) _____________
Cooking a Feast
2:45-3:19pm (Cookin’ in the kitchen!) _____________
Turkey’s in the oven
3:19-4:55pm (I’m back to playing!) _____________
Feasting with the Family
4:55-6:22pm (Ham! Potatoes! Gravy!) _____________
PLAY, PLAY, PLAY!
6:22-10:00pm (I love Christmas!) _____________

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The Horse Knows The Way To Carry The Sleigh

It’s time to do a little bit of research! Do a short survey of at least 5 of your classmates who have
a grandparent that lives in a state other than yours. Find out the city and state they live in, then
do some research to find out how many miles away it is. Draw lines on the map below to show
each person’s travel (See Example). Then, answer the questions below.

SYRACUSE, NY
MARY’S TRIP
1,667 MILES
DENVER, CO

Convert one person’s trip to be measured in feet. An average plane travels about 600 miles per
(Remember: 1 mile = 5,280 feet) hour. Choose one person’s trip to find out how
long it would take to travel to Grandma’s by
plane.

An average car travels about 65 miles per hour.

Convert that person’s trip to be measured in inches. Choose one person’s trip to find out the driving
time to travel to Grandma’s by car.

Write an addition equation that requires Find the total distance traveled on a round trip
regrouping to represent the distance traveled by (going there AND back) for each person.
the person with the LONGEST trip.

Write a subtraction equation that requires

regrouping to represent the distance traveled by
the person with the SHORTEST trip.

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 Christmas Math Project

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 Straight through the {Store Doors}
It’s time to get ready for your trip. What does (almost) everyone do before they go on a road
trip? Go to the store! Pick up those last minute toiletries, some fresh clothes, and maybe a new
piece of luggage or two. Complete the tables below to buy new items for your family.

At the Luggage Shop

Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Small Luggage 3 $89 $267

Large Luggage 5 $125 $625
Duffel Bag 6 $76 $456
Toiletry Bag 6 $33 $198

Answer key $1,546

Fresh and Clean Christmas Clothes
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Sweaters 6 $28 $168

Jeans 3 $47 $141
Shoes 4 $59 $236
Undershirts 12 $13 $156

Answer key $701

Toiletries for the Trip
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Mini Toothpaste 3 $2 $6
Soap 6 $3 $18
Shampoo & Conditioner 5 $5 $25
Lotion 6 $8 $48

Answer key $97

ANSWER KEY
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 TROT FAST MY WRAPPING HAND!
It’s time to wrap your gifts! For each of the gifts below, you cut out rectangular pieces of wrapping paper
that are the perfect size. Follow the directions below to figure out what to cut.

Present #1 The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below.

Area=
8 sq. ft
2 feet

Perimeter=
12 ft.

4 feet

Present #2 The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below.
Area= 264 square inches
Perimeter= 68 inches
Label possible dimensions of the wrapping
paper to make the above statements about
its area and perimeter true.

12 x 22
Present #3 Present number 3 is quadruple the size of present #1.
Label its dimensions and find the area and perimeter.

Dimensions: 8 x 16 Area= 128 square feet Perimeter= 48 feet.

*BONUS* On a separate sheet of paper, Present #4: Area= 48 square inches
create rectangles of wrapping paper that
fit the following rules (label your Present #5: Perimeter= 50 inches
dimensions and find the total A and P). Present #6: Area= 35 square inches

ANSWER KEY
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 It stings the toes and bites the nose!
Grandma loves to read about the weather around the world, especially this time
of year. She pulls out the weather table from the newspaper and has you
practice some essential math skills with it.
Location Average High Average Low
Denver, Colorado 45° 18°
Chicago, Illinois 35° 20°
Syracuse, New York 36° 21°
Orlando, Florida 72° 51°
Amite, Louisiana 63° 40°
Seattle, Washington 47° 38°
Arlington, Virginia 47° 32°
Complete the following tasks on a separate sheet of paper

Task #1 Task #2 Task #3

Write 5 questions that Write 5 questions that can
Create a graph can be answered by
be answered by adding,
displaying the data. subtracting, multiplying, or
observing the data. dividing using the data.

Arrange the average high Arrange the average low Find the city with the biggest
temperatures in order temperatures in order difference between the
from greatest to least. from least to greatest. average high temperature and
the average low temperature.

72 18 Denver
63 20 27 degrees
47 21 Find the city with the smallest
47 32 difference between the
average high temperature and
45 38 the average low temperature.
36 40
35 51 Seattle
9 degrees

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 Hurrah for the Pumpkin pie!
While Grandma bakes the pumpkin pie, she has you do a little math.
Complete the table below to help grandma double her apple pie recipe.

Original Improper Simplest

Ingredient Visual Fraction Doubled
Amount Fraction Form

Pie Crust 2 6/8 Cups 22/8 2 3/4 5 ½ cups

Pumpkin 2 2/4 Cups 10/4 2 1/2 5 cups

Cream 1 3/4 Cup 7/4 1 3/4 3 ½ cups

Flour 1 7/8 Cup 15/8 1 7/8 3 ¾ cups

Cinnamon 3 3/6 TBSP 21/6 3 1/2 7 TBPS

Nutmeg 2 2/3 TBSP 8/3 2 2/3 5 1/3 TBPS

Sugar 1 2/6 Cup 8/6 1 1/3 2 2/3 cups

Brown
Sugar
½ Cup 1/2 1/2 1 cup

A Mouthful of Math
Use the information above to answer the following questions
You buy sugar by the pound. One pound of
For the original recipe, how much more sugar is required than brown sugar? sugar has 1 ¼ cups of sugar in it. How
5/6 cup
___________________
many pounds of sugar would you need to
buy to be sure you have enough for the
In the double recipe, how much more pie crust is there than pumpkin? doubled recipe? Explain.

1/2 cup
___________________

In the doubled recipe, how much sugar (brown included) is in the pie total?
You would need 3 pounds
3 2/3 cup
___________________
of sugar, since 1 ¼ cups
doubled is 2 ½ cups, and
How much more flour do you need than cream (in the doubled recipe)?
2 ½ cups is not enough
1/4 cup
___________________
to cover 2 2/3 cups of
How much cinnamon and nutmeg do you need for the original recipe?
sugar.
6 1/6 TBSP
___________________

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 For it is Christmas Day!
It’s Christmas, and you have had a full day of baking, cooking,
unwrapping, eating, and playing! Take a look at your Christmas “schedule”
below and determine how much time you spent on each activity.

Timespan Activity Elapsed Time

4:30-6:05am Awake in bed.
(Can’t Sleep! Santa’s coming!) 1 hour 35 minutes
_____________
Fell back asleep.
6:05-6:20am (Woke back up! Too excited!) 15 minutes
_____________
Trying to wake mom & dad.
6:20-6:45am (WAKE UP, ALREADY!) 25 minutes
_____________
Passing out presents
6:45-7:30am (Woohoo!!) 45 minutes
_____________
Coffee break for Grandma
7:30-7:47am (Who needs coffee? Presents!!) 17 minutes
_____________
PRESENTS!!
7:47-9:35am (Best day ever!) 1 hour 48 minutes
_____________
9:35-10:07am Breakfast Break
(Cinnamon rolls are worth it!)
32 minutes
_____________
MORE PRESENTS!!
10:07-11:15am (We open ONE at a time!) 1 hour 8 minutes
_____________
Baking Pies & Cookies
11:15-1:12pm (Get in my belly!) 1 hour 57 minutes
_____________
1:12-2:45pm Playtime!
(Where do I start?)
1 hour 33 minutes
_____________
2:45-3:19pm Cooking a Feast
(Cookin’ in the kitchen!) 34 minutes
_____________
Turkey’s in the oven
3:19-4:55pm (I’m back to playing!) 1 hour 36 minutes
_____________
Feasting with the Family
4:55-6:22pm (Ham! Potatoes! Gravy!) 1 hour 27 minutes
_____________
PLAY, PLAY, PLAY!
6:22-10:00pm (I love Christmas!) 3 hours 38 minutes
_____________

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Over the river and through the woods
Your trip to grandmother’s house will be by car. (Don’t worry about being bored. You packed
your iPod, right?) You will need to figure out how much you will spend on gas, the distance you
will travel, and how much your family will spend on snacks along the way. And we’re off!

Then & Now

NOTE: Encourage your students to round
to find the answers if they are not
comfortable with decimal answers
The Horse-Drawn Sleigh The Car
Your car can drive an average of 60 Miles Per
The sleigh can move about 8 Miles Per Hour. If
Hour. Using the information from the sleigh,
it takes 56 hours of riding to get to Grandma’s
how many hours would it take to get to
on a sleigh, how many miles are you traveling?
grandmother’s house?

_______________
448 miles About 7.5 hours
_______________
If you had to take four 8-hour breaks during If you had to take four 30-minute breaks during
your trip (to let the horses rest, of course), your trip (to fill up on gas), how long would it
how long would it take you to get there in total? take you to get there in total?

_______________
88 hours (!!!!) _______________
About 9.5 hours
It costs roughly $180 per month to feed a
horse. If you have to feed your horse for each Gas costs about $3 per gallon. You can drive
day of the trip to grandma’s (see above, and about 23 miles for every gallon of gas. About
don’t include the trip home), about how much how much will you spend on gas?

_______________
would you pay to feed them on the trip there?
About $58
_______________
About 24 dollars
(Answer may vary… let students justify their answers!)

Gas Station Goodies Road Trip Rumblings

At one of the gas station stops, you find At each of your four stops, you select
Chips $3 several receipts on the ground. All you can some goodies. You have a $25 budget
see is the amount spent and the number of for the day. Use a data display
Soda $2 each item that was bought. Complete the below to show what you buy at each
table below. Each line is a different receipt. stop and how much it costs.
Icee $4
# of Items Cost Per Total Cost
Juice $1 Bought Item on Receipt
Candy $5 6 $3 $18

Donuts $8 3 $8 $24 Answers

Chex Mix $7
9
12
$7
$6
$63
$72
will vary
Hot dog $6 8 $4 $32
Nachos $9 4 $5 $20

ANSWER KEY
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 Trim the tree, ring-ting-a-ling!
Tree Lot Sales
It’s only a few days before The Big Day, and you are off to buy a tree for Grandma’s house.
You start chatting with the salesman, and he gives you some interesting information.
So far this year, they have made $4,410 off the small Christmas trees. You look over and see
that each of those trees cost $35. You do the math to figure out how many they have sold.

126 trees
You count the number of small Christmas trees left. There are 22. How
much more money will they make if they sell all of the Christmas trees?

$770
Grandma doesn’t want a small tree, so the salesman brings you over to the biggest, most beautiful trees
you’ve seen. You peek at the price. $145! The salesman says this is his best seller, and he is sure he will
sell at least 25 of them today. If he sells as many as he hopes, how much will he make on these trees today?

$3,625
Fill in the table with information about the lights you and grandma choose to buy for the tree.

Glistening Lights To Adorn the Tree

Length per String Total # of Strings Total Length of
Lights Cost Per String Total Cost
(Feet) Purchased Lights (Inches)

Twinkling
Snowflakes 3 feet 4 144 Inches $19 $76
Multi-Colored
Bulbs 4 feet 6 288 Inches $13 $78
Snow White
Bulbs 4 feet 7 336 Inches $12 $84
Blinking Bulbs 5 feet 2 120 Inches $15 $30
Total Cost for Lights: $268
Grandma lets you choose ornaments. She wants you to get 4 of one kind 7 of another kind,
Ornament Cost Per
8 of another kind, and 13 of your favorite type of ornament.
Happiness $4 Create a table below to show your selections, each ornaments total cost, and your TOTAL cost.

Snowfall $6

ANSWERS WILL VARY

Striped $3

Love Hearts $9

Candy Cane #8

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 TO HAVE A FULL DAY OF PLAY!
You’ve arrived at grandmother’s, and oh boy, does she have some very exciting events
planned for you! First up, you will decorate a gingerbread house! Grandma challenges you
to a friendly competition– not to build the sturdiest house, and not to see which house is
most beautiful…. Instead, the competition is all based on your candy value! Each piece of
décor has a different value, and each candy is worth the value noted in the table below.
# ON GRANDMA’S
CANDY VALUE PER PIECE
HOUSE

Candy Button 1 9
Candy Ring 10 5
Candy Stick 1,000 2
Candy Arch 10,000 3
Peppermint 100,000 9
Lollipop .10 2
Gumdrop .01 4
Grandmother’s Work of Art
GRANDMA’S HOUSE VALUE: 932,059.24
Now that you’ve found the total value of
CANDY # ON YOUR HOUSE
grandmother’s house, here is the final value
Candy Button 6 of YOUR house! Fill in the chart to show how
many of each candy you put on your house.
Candy Ring 0
Who was the big winner of the gingerbread house
Candy Stick 2 competition and by how much? Explain how you know.
Candy Arch 5 Grandma was the big winner, by
Peppermint 0 880,002.66. I know because I
Lollipop 5 subtracted my house value from
Gumdrop 8 grandma's house value to find
the difference.
YOUR HOUSE VALUE: 52,056.58
ANSWER KEY
 IT SEEMS {THEY BAKE} SO DREADFULLY SLOW!
It’s a bake-a-thon! Grandma surprised you with another day of fun, and this time you are decorating
cookies! By the end of the day, you have a whopping 100 cookies rolled, cut, baked, decorated, and
ready to deliver to your friends and neighbors. First, use the table below to figure out how many of
each type you have and convert the amount to both a fraction and decimal of the entire batch.
NUMBER Now it’s time to distribute the goodies!
COOKIE SHAPE BAKED FRACTION DECIMAL
The plate below shows how many cookies
you kept for yourself. What fraction of
Candy Cane 6/50 the entire batch did you keep?
Star 4/50

Snowman 15

Tree .13

Present 2/10

Gingerbread .18

Reindeer 14

‘Tis the season for giving! You give the remaining cookies away to some of
grandma’s friends and neighbors. Fill in the chart to figure out how many cookies
each neighbor gets! Be sure to use the information from the first chart as well
as the information about how many of each cookie YOU kept to fill in the blanks!
Decimal

FAMILY
Fraction
of the
of the
entire
leftovers
batch

18/75
The Winters’
3 2 4 0 6 1 2 .18
17/75
The Cavins
4 2 0 2 1 6 2 .17
17/75
The Monteros
2 2 2 5 5 0 1 .17
23/75
The Salaskos
0 2 5 2 5 6 3 .23

ANSWER KEY
 …THROUGH THE {TREE-FILLED}WOODS 2
Use the information in the conversation to fill in the chart below.
NUMBER OF
TREE TYPE TREES PER GROVE TOTAL NUMBER DIMENSIONS
GROVES
Miniature
60 4 240 5x12
Firs
Any factor pair
Fraser Firs 42 6 252 that adds up to 42

Douglas Any factor pair

72 1 72 that adds up to 72
Firs
Evergreen 36 1 36 2x18
Later, you observe several groups of people walking out with many, many wreaths with
which to decorate their doors and windows! Most are far too heavy to carry, so they
are pulling them by wagon. Complete the chart to show the total weight of the stacks
of wreaths depending on whether they bought small, medium, or large wreaths.
NUMBER OF WREATHS PURCHASED

2 4 5 6 8
WREATH
WEIGHT EACH
TYPE

Small 2 4 8 10 12 16
Medium 3 6 12 15 18 24
Large 8 16 32 40 48 64
Explain how knowledge of factors and multiples helped you fill in the table above.
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
BONUS: On a blank piece of paper, draw the tree
farm based on the information in the conversation.
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 I love to challenge my students with my math projects! However, some of the
pages require more advanced critical thinking and calculations than would be
appropriate for most 4th graders. Therefore, I have adjusted SEVEN of the
pages to meet the 4th grade standards. Students should be familiar with
multiplying up to 4-digit by 1-digit numbers and 2-digit by 2-digit numbers.
They should also be familiar with dividing with one digit divisors. The rest of
the pages that were not adjusted should be doable by most fourth graders. J
The table below shows the adjusted paged. The adjustments are shown in RED.
PAGE TITLE SKILLS COVERED

TO HAVE A FULL DAY OF PLAY PLACE VALUE (NO DECIMALS)

MULTI-DIGIT MULTIPLICATION & ADDITION (NO
STRAIGHT THROUGH THE DOORS
DIVISION)
OPERATIONS/ MULTI-STEP (WITH CLUES) & MULTIPLICATION/
OVER THE RIVER…
DIVISION

HURRAH FOR FUN (AND PRESENTS) OPERATIONS (WITH WHOLE NUMBERS)

FRACTIONS (NO OPERATIONS, NO SIMPLIFYING. ADDED

HURRAH FOR PUMPKIN PIE (AND COOKIES, TOO)!
BASIC WHOLE # OPERATIONS and PROBLEM SOLVING)

OPERATIONS & PROBLEM SOLVING (NUMBERS FIT FOURTH

TRIM THE TREE
GRADE EXPECTATIONS)

PERIMETER AND AREA (NO CRITICAL THINKING AND

TROT FAST MY WRAPPING HAND
UPPER LEVEL COMPUTATION)

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 To Have A Full Day Of Play!
You’ve arrived at grandmother’s, and oh boy, does she have some very exciting things
planned for you! First up– decorate a gingerbread house! Grandma challenges you to a
friendly competition– not to build the sturdiest house, and not to see which house is most
beautiful…. Instead, the competition is all based on your candy value! Each piece of décor
has a different value, and each candy is worth the value noted in the table below.
# ON GRANDMA’S
CANDY VALUE PER PIECE
HOUSE

Candy Button 1
Candy Ring 10
Candy Stick 100
Candy Arch 1,000
Peppermint 10,000
Lollipop 100,000
Gumdrop 1,000,000
Grandmother’s Work of Art
GRANDMA’S HOUSE VALUE:
Now that you’ve found the total value of
CANDY # ON YOUR HOUSE
grandmother’s house, here is the final value
Candy Button of YOUR house! Fill in the chart to show how
many of each candy you put on your house.
Candy Ring
Candy Stick Who was the big winner of the gingerbread
house and by how much? Explain how you know.
Candy Arch
Peppermint
Lollipop
Gumdrop
YOUR HOUSE VALUE: 5,205,658
4TH
 Straight Through The {Store Doors}
It’s time to get ready for your trip. What does (almost) everyone do before they go on a road
trip? Go to the store! Pick up those last minute toiletries, some fresh clothes, and maybe a new
piece of luggage or two. Complete the tables below to buy new items for your family.

At the Luggage Shop

Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Small Luggage 3 $89

Large Luggage 5 $125
Duffel Bag 6 $76
Toiletry Bag 6 $33
Total Cost:
Fresh and Clean Christmas Clothes
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Sweaters 6 $28
Jeans 3 $47
Shoes 4 $59
Undershirts 12 $13
Total Cost:
Toiletries for the Trip
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Mini Toothpaste 3 $2
Soap 6 $3
Shampoo & Conditioner 5 $5
Lotion 6 $8
Total Cost:

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4TH
Over The River And Through The Woods
Your trip to grandmother’s house will be by car. (Don’t worry about being bored. You packed your iPod, right?) You will need to figure out
how much you will spend on gas, the distance you will travel, and how much your family will spend on snacks along the way. And we’re off!

THEN & NOW

The Horse-Drawn Sleigh The Car
The sleigh can move about 8 Miles Per Hour. If it takes
56 hours of riding to get to Grandma’s on a sleigh, how Your car can drive an average of 60 Miles Per
many miles are you traveling? Hour. Using the information from the sleigh,
(HINT: Divide the number of hours it takes by the miles they can how many hours would it take to get to
travel per hour.) grandmother’s house?

_______________ _______________
If you had to take four 8-hour breaks during your trip
(to let the horses rest, of course), how long would it If you had to take four 30-minute breaks during
take you to get there in total? your trip (to fill up on gas), how long would it
(HINT: Add the number of hours it takes to ride to grandma’s to take you to get there in total?
the total number of hours you take for breaks.)

__________________ _______________
It costs roughly $180 per month to feed a horse. If you have
to feed your horse for each day of the trip to grandma’s (see
above, and don’t include the trip home), how much would you What is the difference between the amount of
pay to feed them on the trip there?
time the trip would take by car vs. by sleigh?
(HINT: First, you’ll need to find out how many days it will take to
get to grandma’s. There are 24 hours in a day.)

________________ _______________
ROAD TRIP RUMBLINGS Gas Station Goodies
At one of the gas station stops, you find At each of your four stops, you select Chips
several receipts on the ground. All you can some goodies. You have a $25 budget
$3
see is the amount spent and the number of for the day. Use the data display Soda
each item that was bought. Complete the below to show what you buy at each $2
table below. Each line is a different receipt. stop and how much it costs.
Icee $4
Stop #

# of Items Cost Per Total Cost Total

Items bought
Bought Item on Receipt Cost Juice $1
6 $3
1 Candy $5
3 $8
Donuts $8
2
9 $7
Chex Mix $7
$6 $72
3
Hot dog $6
$4 $32
4 Nachos $9
$5 $20

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4TH
 Hurrah For Fun {And Presents}!

Santa’s Toy Shop

Gifts For All of Your Holiday Shopping Needs

ALIEN REMOTE CAR HANDBAG SOCCER BALL BALL CAP LAMP

$189

UNICYCLE DISGUISE TELESCOPE PUPPY NOVEL SWEATER

You and grandma head out shopping for gifts. Decide who you need to shop for, then fill in a
table for each person you will get gifts for. Add up the total cost of the gifts, and then write
what combination of bills you will use to pay for your gifts.
Gifts For __________________ Gifts For __________________
Gift Cost Gift Cost

How to Pay: Total Cost: How to Pay: Total Cost:

Gifts For __________________ Gifts For __________________

Gift Cost Gift Cost

How to Pay: Total Cost: How to Pay: Total Cost:

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4TH
Hurrah For The Pumpkin Pie {And Cookies, Too}!

While Grandma bakes the pumpkin pie, she has you do a little math.
Complete the table below to help grandma double her apple pie recipe.

Ingredient Original Amount Visual Fraction Improper Fraction

Pie Crust 2 6/8 Cups

Pumpkin 2 2/4 Cups

Cream 1 3/4 Cup

Flour 1 7/8 Cup
Cinnamon 3 3/6 TBSP
Nutmeg 2 2/3 TBSP
Sugar 1 2/6 Cup

Brown Sugar ½ Cup

A MOUTHFUL OF MATH
The pumpkin pie is done, and now it’s time for cookie baking. Use your math skills to help divvy
up the delicious spread of cookies you and grandma have prepared!

You and grandma made a total of 24 Grandma wants to keep half of the
dozen cookies. How many cookies did you cookies for your family and bring the
make? other half to her neighborhood friends.
How many cookies will you be keeping?

Of the cookies that remain, she wants to She wants to arrange her friends’
split them evenly between her eight cookies in an array on a platter. What
neighborhood friends. How many cookies combination of rows and columns can she
will each of her friends get? put the cookies in? (HINT: Think about
factors and arrays!)

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4TH
 Trim The Tree, Ring-ting-a-ling!
Tree Lot Sales
It’s only a few days before The Big Day, and you are off to buy a tree for Grandma’s house.
You start chatting with the salesman, and he gives you some interesting information.
So far this year, they have made $1,134 off the miniature Christmas trees. You look over and
see that each of those trees cost $9. You do the math to figure out how many they have sold.

You count the number of mini Christmas trees left. There are 22. How
much more money will they make if they sell all of the Christmas trees?

Grandma doesn’t want a small tree, so the salesman brings you over to the biggest, most beautiful trees
you’ve seen. You peek at the price. $145! The salesman says this is his best seller, and he is sure he will
sell at least 25 of them today. If he sells as many as he hopes, how much will he make on these trees today?

Fill in the table with information about the lights you and grandma choose to buy for the tree.
Glistening Lights To Adorn the Tree
Length per String Total # of Strings Total Length of Total Length of
Lights Cost Per String Total Cost
(Feet) Purchased Lights (Feet) Lights (Inches)

Twinkling
Snowflakes
3 feet 4 $19

Multi-Colored
Bulbs
4 feet 6 $13

Snow White
Bulbs
4 feet 7 $12

Blinking Bulbs 5 feet 2 $15

Total Cost for Lights:

Grandma lets you choose ornaments. She wants you to get 4 of one kind, 7 of another kind,
Ornament Cost Per
6 of another kind, and 5 of your favorite type of ornament.
Happiness $4 Create a table below to show your selections, each ornaments total cost, and your TOTAL cost.

Snowfall $6

Striped $3

Love Hearts $9

Candy Cane $8

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4TH
 Trot Fast My Wrapping Hand!
It’s time to wrap your gifts! For each of the gifts below, you cut out rectangular pieces of wrapping paper that
are the perfect size. Follow the directions below to figure out what to cut and how large each piece of paper is.

PRESENT #1 PRESENT #2
The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill
in the missing dimensions and find the perimeter and area. in the missing dimensions and find the perimeter.
2 units

6 units
4 units ____ units
Area= _____________ Area= 48 square units

Perimeter= ____________ Perimeter= ____________

PRESENT #3 PRESENT #4
The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill
The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill
in the missing dimensions and find the perimeter and area. in the missing dimensions and find the area.
3 units
3 units

____ units
10 units
Area= _____________ Area= ____________

Perimeter= ____________ Perimeter= 22 units

*BONUS* On a separate sheet of paper, Present #5: Area= 48 square inches
create rectangles of wrapping paper that
fit the following rules (label your Present #6: Perimeter= 50 inches
dimensions and find the total A and P). Present #7: Area= 35 square inches

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4TH
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 TO HAVE A FULL DAY OF PLAY!
You’ve arrived at grandmother’s, and oh boy, does she have some very exciting things
planned for you! First up– decorate a gingerbread house! Grandma challenges you to a
friendly competition– not to build the sturdiest house, and not to see which house is most
beautiful…. Instead, the competition is all based on your candy value! Each piece of décor
has a different value, and each candy is worth the value noted in the table below.
# ON GRANDMA’S
CANDY VALUE PER PIECE
HOUSE

Candy Button 1 9
Candy Ring 10 5
Candy Stick 100 2
Candy Arch 1,000 3
Peppermint 10,000 9
Lollipop 100,000 2
Gumdrop 1,000,000 4
Grandmother’s Work of Art
GRANDMA’S HOUSE VALUE: 4,293,259

Now that you’ve found the total value of

CANDY # ON YOUR HOUSE
grandmother’s house, here is the final value
Candy Button 8 of YOUR house! Fill in the chart to show how
many of each candy you put on your house.
Candy Ring 5
Candy Stick 6 Who was the big winner of the gingerbread
house and by how much? Explain how you know.
Candy Arch 5 I was the big winner, by 912,399.
Peppermint 0 I know because I subtracted
Lollipop 2 grandma’s house value from my
Gumdrop 5 house value to find the
difference.
YOUR HOUSE VALUE: 5,205,658
4TH
 STRAIGHT THROUGH THE {STORE DOORS}
It’s time to get ready for your trip. What does (almost) everyone do before they go on a road
trip? Go to the store! Pick up those last minute toiletries, some fresh clothes, and maybe a new
piece of luggage or two. Complete the tables below to buy new items for your family.

At the Luggage Shop

Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Small Luggage 3 $89 $267

Large Luggage 5 $125 $625
Duffel Bag 6 $76 $456
Toiletry Bag 6 $33 $198
Total Cost: $1,546
Fresh and Clean Christmas Clothes
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Sweaters 6 $28 $168

Jeans 3 $47 $141
Shoes 4 $59 $236
Undershirts 12 $13 $156
Total Cost: $701
Toiletries for the Trip
Item To Purchase Number Needed Cost Per Item Total Cost

Mini Toothpaste 3 $2 $6
Soap 6 $3 $18
Shampoo & Conditioner 5 $5 $25
Lotion 6 $8 $48
Total Cost: $97

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4TH
Over the river and through the woods
Your trip to grandmother’s house will be by car. (Don’t worry about being bored. You packed your iPod, right?) You will need to figure out
how much you will spend on gas, the distance you will travel, and how much your family will spend on snacks along the way. And we’re off!

THEN & NOW

The Horse-Drawn Sleigh The Car
The sleigh can move about 8 Miles Per Hour. If it takes
56 hours of riding to get to Grandma’s on a sleigh, how Your car can drive an average of 60 Miles Per
many miles are you traveling? Hour. Using the information from the sleigh,
(HINT: Divide the number of hours it takes by the miles they can how many hours would it take to get to
travel per hour.) grandmother’s house?

448 miles
_______________ _______________
About 7.5 hours
If you had to take four 8-hour breaks during your trip
(to let the horses rest, of course), how long would it If you had to take four 30-minute breaks during
take you to get there in total? your trip (to fill up on gas), how long would it
(HINT: Add the number of hours it takes to ride to grandma’s to take you to get there in total?
the total number of hours you take for breaks.)

88 hours (!!!!)
__________________ _______________
About 9.5 hours
It costs roughly $180 per month to feed a horse. If you have
to feed your horse for each day of the trip to grandma’s (see
above, and don’t include the trip home), how much would you What is the difference between the amount of
pay to feed them on the trip there?
time the trip would take by car vs. by sleigh?
(HINT: First, you’ll need to find out how many days it will take to
get to grandma’s. There are 24 hours in a day.)

About 24 dollars
________________ _______________
ABOUT 78.5 hours
(Answer may vary… let students justify their answers!)

ROAD TRIP RUMBLINGS Gas Station Goodies

At one of the gas station stops, you find At each of your four stops, you select Chips
several receipts on the ground. All you can some goodies. You have a $25 budget
$3
see is the amount spent and the number of for the day. Use the data display Soda
each item that was bought. Complete the below to show what you buy at each $2
table below. Each line is a different receipt. stop and how much it costs.
Icee $4
Stop #

# of Items Cost Per Total Cost Total

Items bought
Bought Item on Receipt Cost Juice $1
6 $3 $18
1 Candy $5
3 $8 $24
Donuts $8
2
9 $7 $63
Chex Mix $7
12 $6 $72
3
Hot dog $6
8 $4 $32
4 Nachos $9
4 $5 $20

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HURRAH FOR THE PUMPKIN PIE {AND COOKIES, TOO}!
While Grandma bakes the pumpkin pie, she has you do a little math.
Complete the table below to help grandma double her apple pie recipe.

Ingredient Original Amount Visual Fraction Improper Fraction

Pie Crust 2 6/8 Cups 22/8

Pumpkin 2 2/4 Cups 10/4
Cream 1 3/4 Cup 7/4
Flour 1 7/8 Cup 15/8
Cinnamon 3 3/6 TBSP 21/6
Nutmeg 2 2/3 TBSP 8/3
Sugar 1 2/6 Cup 8/6
Brown Sugar ½ Cup 1/2

A MOUTHFUL OF MATH
The pumpkin pie is done, and now it’s time for cookie baking. Use your math skills to help divvy
up the delicious spread of cookies you and grandma have prepared!

You and grandma made a total of 24 Grandma wants to keep half of the
dozen cookies. How many cookies did you cookies for your family and bring the
make? other half to her neighborhood friends.
How many cookies will you be keeping?

288 cookies 144 cookies

Of the cookies that remain, she wants to She wants to arrange her friends’
split them evenly between her eight cookies in an array on a platter. What
neighborhood friends. How many cookies combination of rows and columns can she
will each of her friends get? put the cookies in? (HINT: Think about
factors and arrays!)
1 row of 18 cookies
18 cookies each 2 rows of 9 cookies
3 rows of 6 cookies

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 TRIM THE TREE, RING-TING-A-LING!
Tree Lot Sales
It’s only a few days before The Big Day, and you are off to buy a tree for Grandma’s house.
You start chatting with the salesman, and he gives you some interesting information.
So far this year, they have made $1,134 off the miniature Christmas trees. You look over and
see that each of those trees cost $9. You do the math to figure out how many they have sold.

126 trees
You count the number of mini Christmas trees left. There are 22. How
much more money will they make if they sell all of the Christmas trees?

$198
Grandma doesn’t want a small tree, so the salesman brings you over to the biggest, most beautiful trees
you’ve seen. You peek at the price. $145! The salesman says this is his best seller, and he is sure he will
sell at least 25 of them today. If he sells as many as he hopes, how much will he make on these trees today?

$3,625
Fill in the table with information about the lights you and grandma choose to buy for the tree.
Glistening Lights To Adorn the Tree
Length per String Total # of Strings Total Length of Total Length of
Lights Cost Per String Total Cost
(Feet) Purchased Lights (Feet) Lights (Inches)

Twinkling
Snowflakes
3 feet 4 12 144 $19 $76
Multi-Colored
Bulbs
4 feet 6 24 288 $13 $78
Snow White
Bulbs
4 feet 7 28 336 $12 $84
Blinking Bulbs 5 feet 2 10 120 $15 $30
Total Cost for Lights: $268
Grandma lets you choose ornaments. She wants you to get 4 of one kind, 7 of another kind,
Ornament Cost Per
6 of another kind, and 5 of your favorite type of ornament.
Happiness $4 Create a table below to show your selections, each ornaments total cost, and your TOTAL cost.

Snowfall $6

Striped $3

Love Hearts $9

Candy Cane $8

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 TROT FAST MY WRAPPING HAND!
It’s time to wrap your gifts! For each of the gifts below, you cut out rectangular pieces of wrapping paper that
are the perfect size. Follow the directions below to figure out what to cut and how large each piece of paper is.

PRESENT #1 PRESENT #2
The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill
in the missing dimensions and find the perimeter and area. in the missing dimensions and find the perimeter.
2 units

6 units
4 units 8 units
Area= 8 square units Area= 48 square units

Perimeter= 12 units Perimeter= 28 units

PRESENT #3 PRESENT #4
The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill
The piece of wrapping paper for this gift is shown below. Fill
in the missing dimensions and find the perimeter and area. in the missing dimensions and find the area.
3 units
3 units

8 units
10 units
Area= 30 square units Area= 24 square units

Perimeter= 26 units Perimeter= 22 units

*BONUS* On a separate sheet of paper, Present #5: Area= 48 square inches
create rectangles of wrapping paper that
fit the following rules (label your Present #6: Perimeter= 50 inches
dimensions and find the total A and P). Present #7: Area= 35 square inches

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