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Related Activities to Try at Home

Dear Family,

The activities below are related to the mathematics in the unit Temperature, Height, and Growth. You can use these activities to enrich your child's mathematical learning experience.

Change Situations Together with your child, look for things that change in different ways and at different speeds. Can you find some things that change more and more quickly? Can you find things that change steadily? Can you find anything that changes by gradually slowing down, or by gradually shrinking? Here are some ideas to start with:

• • the growth of a plant over time

• • the speed of a bicyclist over the course of a race

• • the growth of your child (and siblings) over time

Consider making graphs of any of these situations.

What Is in the News? Look online or in newspapers and other print material for graphs and tables that show something changing over time. Work with your child to make sense of these:

• • What does a steep rise in a graph represent?

• • What does a less steep rise in the same graph represent?

• • How does a graph represent no change?

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