Terra Wood and Amanda Taylor

Jack MacKenzie School Math Trail

1. In front of the school you will see a brick pillar.
A) Using your ruler, measure how tall one brick on the pillar is in centimeters.
Height of brick:___________
B) Count how many bricks tall the pillar is: ______ bricks tall.
C) Guess how many centimeters tall the pillar is: ____________

2. Look at the big window in the foyer. Can you find the center line?
A) Are both sides the same? __________
B) How many windows are there all together? _________

3. In the Library, find the World Books.
A) Find the book for letter . How many pages does this book have? ________
B) Find the book for letter . How many pages does this book have? ________
C) Which book has more pages? ___________
D) How many more pages? _________

4. Find the tallest shelf in the Library.
A) How many shelves tall is it? ______
B) If it is two shelves across then how many shelves are there all together? ________
C) Draw a picture of the shelf:



5. Look around the foyer. Can you see any tesselations?
(Tesselations are patterns that are around us.)
A) Draw a picture of a tesselation.



6. Go outside to the school playground and pick up a handful of rocks.
A) Count how many rocks are in a handful. ________
B) Guess how many rocks would be in five handfuls. _______
C) Guess how many rocks would be in ten handfuls. ______

7. Look at the playset.
A) Where do you see straight lines on the playset? Draw some of these:


B) Where do you see curvy lines? Draw some of these:


C) Where do you see circular shapes? Draw some of these:



8. Let's play basketball!
A) Guess how many baskets you will get in ten throws: _________
How many will you miss? _________
B) Throw the ball ten times.
How many throws did you get in? _________
How many throws did you miss? ________
C) If you tried 100 times, how many throws do you think you would get in? _________
How many throws do you think that you would miss? ________

9. A) How many steps long do you think the hallway is? ________
How many steps across do you think it is? ________
B) Walk down the hallway and count your steps. How long is it? ________
Walk across the hallway and count your steps. How wide is it? ________
C) Graph you results using the graph that was given to you.

10. Look at the different shapes on the ceiling.
A) Name some round things: ____________________________
B) Name some square things: _____________________________
C) Name some rectangular things: ___________________________
D) Draw and label these shapes.




































Groups for Math Trail:

Group One: JessicaShaneMichael L.Amy S. Group Two:MiloKayleeNicholasNicole Group Three:RileyKasiaMichael N.Sarah

Group 4:Amy B.TylerVictoriaNick Group 5:KrystenMichael K.AlexanderElizabeth Group 6:SydneyToriLukasVanessa

Group 7:HeatherLauraMorganChris