I don’t know about where you live, but there is something about snow in the South that has people getting bread, milk, and measuring tapes! We recently had a pretty good amount of snow for North Georgia (although it was melted within two days…womp womp). All over Facebook, people were posting their measurements of the snow. I took this opportunity to make a fraction word problems freebie all about snow to engage my students when we returned from school (because, of course, school was closed).
Here is a night time shot of the snow measurement in my city. And a early morning shot to show the night time accumulation. Not a lot at all compared to some parts, but this was quite a bit for us in Georgia.
After looking at these pictures, I started thinking this was a perfect math application of measuring, reading a ruler, determining fractional amounts on a ruler, subtracting fractional amounts to determine the night time accumulation.
We have been working on fraction computation, so I decided to whip up a snow day fraction word problem printable to have my students show what they have been learning. I wanted to tie in the snow day and the measurement so the word problems all focused on snow day measurements.
The word problems involve adding and subtracting mixed numbers with unlike denominators, make them perfect for 5th graders or as a review for 6th graders.
This will be a great way to “break the ice” when we return from almost a week off of school!
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