Renaming the Date Math

Suggested Grades

1-3

Objective

Students will practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division skills to "rename" the date. Through this activity students will also be exposed to many different equations that have the same answer.

Materials

• paper
• writing utensils

Method

• Ask students to look at the date and then figure out how many different ways they can rename the date through equations.
  Example: If the date is May 18, here are some different ways of renaming it.
  
  1. May 3+15
     
  2. May 10+8
     
  3. May 2+5+11
     
  4. May 9x2
     
  5. May 1+3+2+6+4+2
  6. etc....
• Try doing this activity as a daily opener with whatever operation you are working on.