Computer Lab Activities
Math Hunt: Winter Olympics
Lace up the ice skates, wax those skis, and meet the world's elite athletes on a trek to find answers to math problems that will earn you a gold-medal-worthy score.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
In “Winter Olympics” (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 sports, Olympic athletes, and the events.
Sample question:
What percentage of the first winter Olympic Games' competitors were women?
- 4%
- 13%
- 96%
In addition to challenging students’ reading comprehension skills, “Winter Olympics” tests these “math hunting” skills:
- Addition and Subtraction
- Averages
- Converting Units of Measurement
- Decimals and Percentages
- Geometry
- Ratio and Proportion
Learning Objectives
By participating in Math Hunt, 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
Related Resources
Students set out on fact-finding missions that test math skills, provide practice researching on the Web, and boost reading comprehension.
- Subjects:Hockey, Addition and Subtraction, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Research Skills, Fractions and Decimals, Geometry, Logic and Problem Solving, Number Sense, Ratio, Proportion, Scale, Real-World Math, Measurement, Time, Word Problems, Olympics, Winter Themes, Sports, Communication and the Internet, Computers, Teaching with Technology
- Skills:Research Skills
