Here are a few Projects Ideas but please feel free to be creative.
Trick-or-Treat Candy Sort and Data display (1st or 2nd grade) – Sort candy any way you want and create a graph to represent your Trick-or-Treat haul
· Trick-or-Treat Fermi problem (3rd – 5th): About how many fun size Snickers do you think were handed out to Cascadia students on Halloween? About how many to all Seattle Public School students? Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, was well known for using survey data and estimation to come up with close approximations to unanswerable math questions.
· Trick-or-Treat candy surveys and conclusions about trends (any grade). Do boys have a different favorite candy than girls? Do first graders have a different favorite Trick-or-Treat candy than 5th graders?
Pinterest search
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/search.shtml?v=ia&ia=Math
- Model a fibonacci sequence.
- Where does Pi come from?
- Math themed sculptures or art?
- A study of prime numbers.
- Tessellations art project
- A study of the number 9
- Research and report on symmetry and patterns in nature
- Research Egyptian Fractions
- Math in architecture
- Research a famous mathematician
- Research and report on vectors
- Research and report on fractals
- Create a scale drawing of your room
- Chart and graph your day or your diet
- Data Project: Ask a question, poll the students and come up with conclusions or projections.
