4th Grade Holiday Math Project Winter Holidays Around the World
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Fourth Grade Winter Holiday Math Word Problems! Math Story problems! Great resource for Winter Holiday Math Small Group Instruction, Math Centers, Purposeful practice and more! Digital version included compatible with Google Slides and Google Classroom! Differentiated with three different versions!Price $15.50Original Price $19.50Save $4.00
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Holiday math for 4th grade math! Great math word problem practice for fourth grade students! Problem solving practice with multiplication and division! Multi-step math story problems! Multiplication and division fluency practice! Christmas math, Hanukkah math, Kwanzaa math, Las Posadas math, Chinese New Year math, Diwali math! Winter holidays! Google Slides links NOW INCLUDED!
The month leading up to winter break can be challenging to keep students engaged! However it is a critical time to review concepts learned throughout the first half of the year to prepare students well for learning after break. Especially in fourth grade when the focus has shifted to fractions and decimals, it is important for students to practice their problem-solving skills and operations with whole numbers. Winter Holidays Around the World is a great way to keep your students engaged as they practice and apply their fourth-grade math skills and strategies! This project focuses on operations whole numbers, both story problem practice and fluency practice. This project can be used in the classroom with a printed version and includes a digital version, compatible with Google Drive.
Students can work on it independently or with a partner! Students can work on the entire project, or they can pick the holiday that is most interesting to them and start at that Holiday. Students can do the project in order, or they can do the six stops in any order they would like. You can have students do one country per day, or per week to extend the project even further! Each holiday is full of challenging math story problems, tasks and fluency practice designed to extend student thinking. This can also be tied to social studies standards for fourth grade, and you can make it into a research project to extend student engagement more!
In this project, students will “travel” to six different countries to learn about six different winter holidays (from November through January). In the first part of the project, they will plan their trip and calculate mileage. At each stop in the trip they will learn about the winter holiday that originated in that country, and will solve decimal and whole number story problems and fluency problems related to that holiday.
The winter holidays included in this project are Diwali, Hanukkah, Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, Christmas and Chinese New Year. While some of these holidays are religious, this project focuses on the non-religious traditions celebrated during each of these holidays. Each holiday includes the following:
- A brief informational reading page that gives a background on the holiday
- A two-page task/related set of story problems related to the holiday traditions/celebrations
- One page of fluency practice related to the holiday
The following topics are covered throughout the project (this guide can help you pick and choose which parts you would like students to work on. For example, you might want some students to only do the fluency pages from each holiday, or you may want some students to only do specific holidays etc.)
- Plan the Trip (4.NBT.B.4)
- Addition and subtraction of large numbers
- Diwali (4.NBT.B.5, 4.NBT.B.6, 4.MD.A.2)
- Firework Height: measurement conversion and multiplication and division
- Days of the Celebration: multiplication fluency with 2-digit by 2-digit and 3-digit by 1-digit numbers.
- Hanukkah (4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.B.6)
- Hanukkah Gifts: division practice with 3 and 4-digit dividends and 1-digit divisors, multi-step problems
- Chocolate Coins: division fluency with one-digit divisors
- Las Posadas (4.NBT.A.3, 4.NBT.B.5, 4.NBT.B.6, 4.MD.A.2)
- Parade Problems: measurement conversion with large whole numbers (multiplication and division). Multi-step problems.
- Pinata Candy: Rounding whole numbers to the nearest hundred
- Kwanzaa (4.NBT.B.5, 4.NBT.B.6, 4.NF.C.7)
- African Flags: multiplication and division of large whole numbers
- Kwanzaa Principles: fluency with multi-step expressions involving all four operations
- Chinese New Year (4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.B.5, 4.NBT.B.6)
- Dragon Dances: Whole-number division with remainders
- Red Envelopes: Whole number multiplication fluency practice
Resource opens as a ZIP file and includes a printable (PDF), and a digital (Power Point) version of the resource. The digital version also INCLUDES GOOGLE SLIDES LINKS to an easy-to-use- Google Slides version of the project!
Happy Holidays!
I hope you enjoy this engaging math project!
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Melanie Doppler--Math Coach Connection taught in a 3rd and 4th grade multi-age classroom in a Title 1 public school in Wisconsin for 3 years, 5th grade math and science for 2 years in a public school in Tennessee, and spent 1 1/2 years as a math coach. She has her BS in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is committed to creating fun and creative products that are differentiated and aligned to the math content standards!
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