parade | pəˈrād | noun
a public procession, especially one celebrating a special day or event and including marching bands and floats.
Who doesn’t love a good parade? People throwing out candy from elaborately decorated floats, listening to marching bands while baton twirlers dance by, watching the line of fancy cars drive by with kings and queens waiving…the list goes on!
A favorite tradition is watching the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day. There have been over 135 Rose Bowl parades in Pasadena, California.
Spark your math thinking!
- Set up your math mini spark recording page: #67: Rose Bowl Parade.
- Watch this video about the design and manufacturing process for floats. Record 3 things you learned and an your idea for a float.
3. Grades 5 and 6 Students: You will calculate the number of flowers used to create the floats. Open this page or print out the sheet. Do problems 1-7 on your recording page.
Ask your EY teacher for the Rose Bowl Parade math page answer key from the Mini Spark folder when you are done.
Grades 3 and 4 Students: Work on the math activity at Bedtime Math. Read the paragraph at the top of the page. Then do all 4 of the math problems listed. They start very easy and get more difficult. The answers to the math problems are at the bottom of the page, so don’t scroll all of the way down until you are ready to check your work.
4. Share your math mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.
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