Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities
Holidays Around the World: A Math Hunt Activity
This activity puts students’ online research and math skills to the test by posing five questions about how the world celebrates the holidays.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
In “Holidays Around the World” (grades 5–8), a learning activity from Scholastic’s Math Hunt series, students go on an online fact-finding mission to answer five multiple-choice, math-related questions about the winter holidays and how the world celebrates them.
In addition to challenging students’ reading comprehension skills, “Holidays Around the World” tests these “math hunting” skills:
- Addition/Subtraction
- Converting Units of Measurement: Converting Units of Time
- Fractions: Division with Fractions
- Multiplication/Division
- Numerical Sequences
Sample Question:
If you start with 16 pieces of gelt in the pot, how many would you be left with if you were to spin HEY, HEY, SHIN, NUN in consecutive order?
- 5
- 4
- 11
Learning Objectives
By participating in the “Holidays Around the World,” students will:
- Practice problem-solving skills from the grade 5–8 math curriculum
- Explore topics from the grades 5–8 science and social studies curriculum
- Learn basic Internet research skills
- Develop an understanding of the construction of standardized test questions and multiple-choice answers
- Subjects:Addition and Subtraction, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Research Skills, Fractions and Decimals, Logic and Problem Solving, Multiplication and Division, Number Sense, Real-World Math, Measurement, Time, Word Problems, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Hanukkah, Labor Day, Ramadan, Autumn Themes, Summer Themes, Winter Themes, Communication and the Internet, Computers, Teaching with Technology
