100 WAYS TO USE THE NEWSPAPER
Math
Much of the information in the newspaper is conveyed in numbers as much as in words. Students work with the numbers found in stock market tables, stories, advertisements, ball scores and everyday measurements.
- Race through the newspaper! You have five minutes. See how many numbers from 1-25 you can find. Circle each number as you find it.
- Circle the largest and smallest numbers on a newspaper page. Subtract the two numbers you have found. Add the two numbers.
- Using an advertisement to spend $20, leaving change of less than $1. Give the amount of change left.
- Cut words from the newspaper that relate to quantity. For example all, none, many, few, fewer, more, less, most.
- Compute from the stock market reports in the newspaper the percentage of profit and/or loss for a specific stock.
- Use recipes from the newspaper. Double the recipe; halve the recipe and triple the recipe.
- Write a word problem that uses a newspaper advertisement as its basis. Let a friend write the equation for the problem and solve it.
- Refer to the entertainment section of the newspaper and choose the kind of entertainment that you enjoy most and the place you would most like to eat. Determine the total cost of your outing for one person, for two and for your family.
- Choose any three digit and any three digit numbers from the newspaper. Do the following:
- Find the product of the two numbers
- Find the sum of the two numbers
- Find the difference between the two numbers
- Find the quotient of the two numbers to the nearest hundredth
- Now find the sum for all the answers above
- Read a page of the newspaper and underline words and phrases that refer to time such as: annual, bicentennial, 90-day warranty, next week, etc.
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