Y5 Winter Vacation Activity Sheet #1 Quick questions:

1. How many millimetres are there in 4.2 metres?

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2. Which is more, 3 or 35 ?
3. How many sides does and octagon have?
4. What is the largest even number with three-digits?
Problem 1: 5. Which is more, 1.22 or 1.202?
6. How many equal length sides does an isosceles triangle have?
How many different shapes can you make by joining together four square tiles 7. If you toss a coin five times, is it possible for it to land the same
edge to edge? way up every time?
8. How many 50 cent coins does it take to make 10 dollars?
Here’s one to get you started:
9. If one egg weighs 50 grams, how much does a dozen
eggs weigh?
Problem 2: 10. What is 26 x 6?

A rectangle has an area of 24cm2. How long might its sides be?

Project:
How many different answers can you find?

What is the perimeter (distance around the outside) of each one?

Draw a map of your bedroom. Make it as accurate
as you can.
Problem 3: How will you make sure that things are the right sizes?
List at least three fractions between 1 and 5 .
How many can you list? 4 8

Factor challenge:
Factors are numbers that divide into another number without
leaving a remainder. The factors of 6 are, 1, 2, 3, and 6.
Number facts: Can you find all the factors of 210?
Have a family member test you on the number facts from the attached sheet. Clue: There are more than 10 of them!
They can ask you any of the sums on each card. Choose two or three that you
found more difficult and practice them a few times every day, so Choose another large number and find all of its factors. Can you
that you can answer any of the questions quickly. challenge a family member to beat you?
 Y5 Sheet #2 Quick questions:

1. How many sides does a hexagon have?

2. 1 cup is 250ml. How many cups are there in a litre?
3. Which is more, 1.4 or 1 13 ?
Problem 1:
4. List the first 5 odd numbers.
5. What is 0 x 10?
How long is one million seconds? 6. How many centimetres are there in 3.8 metres?
7. How many 20 cent coins does it take to make 5 dollars?
Problem 2:
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8. Which is more, 3 or 25 ?
9. What is 50% of $20?
Jenny is playing with her name and with numbers. 10. What is 20 x 7?
She lets all her consonants equal 1.3 and all her vowels equal 0.5.
So the value of Jenny’s name is 1.3 + 0.5 + 1.3 + 1.3 + 1.3 = 5.7
What is the value of your name?

Project:
Change the rules so that the value of your name is 5.5.

Problem 3: Find a recipe. Work out how much you would need
of each ingredient to make triple the recipe.
How many lines of symmetry do each of these shapes have?
Ask a family member if there is a recipe you can help measure
the ingredients for. What tools do you use to measure?

Number line challenge:

Draw a number line. Put these numbers on it. Think carefully
about which numbers to put on first and how long your number
Number facts: line needs to be.

Have a family member test you on the number facts from the attached sheet. 0, 120
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, 8.5, 20 13 , 10, 50.7
They can ask you any of the sums on each card. Choose two or three that you
found more difficult and practice them a few times every day, so Add the ages of members of your whānau to the
that you can answer any of the questions quickly. number line.
Y5 Sheet #3
Quick questions:

1. If you cut a square into two triangles, are they

equilateral triangles?
2. What is $1.50 ÷ 5?
3. How many 50 cent coins does it take to make 10 dollars?
Problem 1: 4. Write 0.25 as a fraction.
5. Is zero an odd number or an even number?
I have three dogs of different ages. If I add their ages together I get 15.
6. What do you call a shape with 8 sides?
If I multiply their ages together I get 45. How old are my dogs?
7. How many metres is 270 centimetres?
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8. Which is more, 7 or 8 ?
Problem 2: 1
9. What is 3 of 60?
10. What is 5 x 15?
If you throw the three darts and they all hit scoring zones on this dartboard,
what possible scores could you get?

Project:
Design a carton that will hold 2 eggs and keep them
from being broken. Draw a net for this carton.
Problem 3:
If you can, make the carton from a piece of cardboard
Rosalina and Jodie are playing a game where they roll two dice and add up the (you could use cardboard from an old box).
total. Rosalina says that she thinks that the total for the next roll will be 7.
Jodie says that she thinks it will be more than 9. Who is more likely to be right?

Pairs of socks:
Imagine you only have two pairs of socks in your drawer,
Number facts: and they are not joined in pairs. If you pull out two socks at
random, are they more likely to be a pair, or different?
Cut out the cards on the attached sheet and shuffle them. How fast can you
match each equation with the correct answer? Try to beat your time. Design and carry out an experiment to find out. Explain the
results of your experiment to a member of your whānau.
 Quick questions:

Y5 Sheet #4 1.
2.
How many sides does a pentagon have?
How many grams are there in a kilogram?
3. What is $3.50 ÷ 7?
4. Write 0.1 as a fraction.
5. What is half of 104?

Problem 1:
6. If you roll a dice, is an even number or an odd number
more likely?
How many days old are you? Remember: There are 365 days in a year, 7. How many centimetres is 1.7 metres?
but 366 in a leap year. There is a leap year every fourth year. 2020 was a leap year. 1 2
8. Which is more, 3 or 8 ?
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9. What is 4 of 24?

Problem 2:
10. What is 7 x 12?

Project:
If you stack eight cubes into one bigger cube like in the image below, then
paint the outside of the bigger cube, what fraction of the faces of the original
small cubes have you painted? Draw a large square on a piece of paper.
Now mark the middle of each side. Join these points to
make a new shape. What shape have you made? What fraction of the
starting shape is its area?
Problem 3: Mark the middle of each side of your new shape and join those points.
If I have three different coins in my pocket, how much money might I have? Keep repeating these steps.
You may want to try this activity with a triangle or other shapes.

Number challenge:
Pick a three-digit number. Write it in the middle of a piece of paper.
Around the number, write as many different ways to say that
Number facts: number as you can. Here are some ideas to help:

Cut out the cards on the attached sheet and shuffle them. Write the number in words
How fast can you match each equation with the correct answer? Write the number in different languages
Try to beat your time. Draw the number in 10s and 1s
Write some equations that equal the number.
 Grid magic:

Y5 Sheet #5 Two squares are shaded in this multiplication grid.

8 x 4 = 32 is shaded because the answer, 32, has the digit 2 in

the ones place.

Problem 1: 3 x 6 = 18 is shaded because the answer, 18, has the digit 8 in

the ones place.
Deena goes to Niue for a holiday.
Postcards cost $1.35 each. Shade any square in the grid where the product has either
Keyrings cost $2.25 each. 2 or 8 in the ones place.
Deena spends $27.00 on postcards and keyrings for her friends back home.
x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
How many postcards and keyrings might Deena have bought? 1
2
3
Problem 2: 4 32
Which blocks need to swap places so that the 5
numbers in each stack have equal totals? 6 18
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Problem 3: 8
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If you cut the vertices (corners) off a cube like this you get a solid called a
truncated cube. 10
What did you notice?

Placing numbers:
Write the missing numbers on this number line.
What shaped faces make up a truncated cube?
How many of each shape are there?
How many edges and vertices does a truncated cube have?
 Milk:

Y5 Sheet #6 This large bottle of milk holds 3 litres.

How many glasses could you fill from a full 3 litre bottle?
You might have an empty 2 litre or 1 litre bottle
Nets for a square based pyramid: that you could use to help you.

Here are some flat patterns (nets) that might fold up to make a Show how you worked out your answer.
square based pyramid.
Some will work and some won’t. Predict which nets work
and make them to check.

Pattern finding:
Here is a pattern of equations:

Driving Fiji:
Use the scale to work out the distance of the road around Viti Levu.

Write the equation that comes next.

Write an equation in the pattern that is a long way down.
Make up a rule for all equations in this pattern.
Make up your own pattern of equations for someone in your
household to work out.
Y5 Sheet #7
Grid magic:
Two squares are shaded in this multiplication grid.

6 x 4 = 24 is shaded because the answer, 24, has the digit 4 in

the ones place.

Problem 1: 8 x 7 = 56 is shaded because the answer, 56, has the digit 6

in the ones place.
A calculator shows digits using light bars.
The digit 3 has only one line of reflection symmetry. Shade any square in the grid where the product has either
How many lines of reflection symmetry do each of the digits have? 4 or 6 in the ones place.
x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Problem 2: 3
Find out how many times your heart beats in 1 minute. 4 24
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Make sure you are resting, not running about.
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Estimate how often your heart has beated since you were born.
7 32
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Problem 3: 9
Leah, Tia, Hone, and Sam played in a knockout tiddliwinks competition. 10
What did you notice?
Use the diagram to find out who won the competition, using these clues.

Leah did not play Tia or Sam.

Tia beat Hone. Placing numbers:
Write the missing numbers on this number line.
Y6 Sheet #8
Two kilograms:

Fill a 2-litre plastic milk bottle with water.

Feel the weight of the full bottle.

It weighs about two kilograms (2kg).

Viewpoints: Find smaller items around the house. The items might be
things like cups, potatoes, wooden blocks, toy cars, cans of food.
Here are three views of an apartment building
made with small cubes. How many of your item weigh the same as 2kg?
For example, you might work out that about 20 wooden blocks
What is the smallest number of cubes needed weigh 2kg.
to make the building?

Pattern finding:
Here is a pattern of equations:

Driving Upolo:
Use the scale to estimate which is longer, the road around Upolo or the
road around Savai’i.

Write the equation that comes next.

Write an equation in the pattern that is a long way down.
Make up a rule for all equations in this pattern.
Make up your own pattern of equations for someone in your
household to work out.
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