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Copyright 0 99 9 by The Mill brook Press, Inc. All rights reserved.Published by The Millbrook Press, Inc., 2 Old New Milford Road, Brookfield, CT 06804.

Printed in the United States o f America.

Produced by 17th Street Productions,a division of Daniel Weiss Associates, Inc.33 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011

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Editor, Liesa AbramsSpecial Projects Editor, Laura Burns

Cover illustration by Sam WardInterior design and illustrations by Sydney Wright

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Trumbauer, Lisa 1963-Click it. Computer fun math / by Lisa Trumbauer ; llustrated by Sydney Wright.

Summary: Teaches facts and skills about mathematics, while helping the reader to become

ISRN 0-761 3-1 504-7 (lib. bdg.). - SRN 0-7613-0996-9 (pbk.)1. Computers-Juvenile literature. 2. Mathcmatics-Data processing-Juvenile literature.

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comfortable with using a computer.

[1. Computers. 2. Mathematics-Data processing.] I. Wright, Sydney, 1957- . 11. Title.QA76.23.T78 19995 10' .285-d~21 9 8-3 7602

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

CUAPTES ONE: Get in ShapeShapingUp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9ModernMadness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11ItsAboutTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

CHAPTER TWO:Number InvasionPicture-Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Wildcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Brain Puzzlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Fraction Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19WhatDoYouThink? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

CUAVTEF1 TNSE: Measuring UpSkyHigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

YouRule!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER FOUR: Money MattersMakingMoney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Shop-o-rama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Shoppingspree! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

CHAPTER FWE: Sports ZoneWin. Lose. and Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Highscoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Why Math? 1

Youll be surprised to find out that you can have lots of fun on your computerand-at the same t i m e l ea r n all sorts of things about math. The activities inthis book add four things together: computers, math, fun-and you!

When you watch a favorite sport or game, how do you know whos winning? Byadding up the baskets or goals or touchdowns, right? Or how about when you goto the movies? How do you know how much money you need for tickets andpopcorn and other stuff? By adding up prices. I bet you like to know how tallyou are too, and how to tell when youve grown a couple inches. f~ case yohavent already figured it out, finding all of these answers takes math skills!of other things you do involve numbers or shapes also, which means-yup-moremath!

But since hs is a computer book (duh-you knew that!),you have ta know some of the basics first. Heres yourzornputer, inside and out:

What. it is: You know that big screen that lookslike a TV? hats the monitor.What it does: It shows you what youre working on.

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What it is: See all the buttons with letters and numbers1 n them? Theyre on the keyboard.What it does: Heres where you type in what you want the computer to doand also all the words you want to appear on the screen.

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What it is: Can you find thefunky-looking curvy tool with oneor two big buttons on it? Thats the mouse.What it does: It lets you move around the computer screen and choose whereyou want to go. How? Simple-once you understand some mouse lingo:

Cursor: This shows you where you are on the computer screen. Depending onwhich program youre using, it may look like a blinking line, an arrow, or anicon. In the Paint program, you can move the cursor by moving the mouse.Click: When the instructions tell you to click, you push the left button onthe mouse and then release it quickly.Drag: When you need to drag the cursor across the screen, you hold downthe left button on the mouse and move it across the mouse pad its resting on.

For the activities in this book, youll need to understand how to use the word-processing program. Thats what you use for writing, like when you want towrite notes to a friend or make up a story about all your wild adventures ascaptain of a spaceship. Many different word-processing programs are available,but one of the most popular is Microsoft Works. The following activities arebased on this program, but you can do them with any other program that yourcomputer has. Here are some tips on how to use Microsoft Works:

:lick on the word Start at the bottom of your computer screen. See that list of

words above it? Move your mouse up until the word Programs is highlighted,then move your mouse to the right and youll see the names of all your com-puters programs. Look for Microsoft W orks. Found it? Great! Click on it once,and then youll see three choices. Click Works Tools once and then WordProcessor once. Easy enough, right? Now you should have a blank screen, justwaiting for you to fill it up with your writing!

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At the top of the screen youll see some words. This is called the Menu Bar.Move your mouse to one of these words, and an arrow will appear. Click, andyoull get a list with more words, called commands. You use them to tell your

computer what to do. Here are the commands you will use:In File: Save, Page Setup, and Print

19 In Edit: Cut, Copy, and Paste~ In Insert: ClipArt, Drawing, and Object

In Format: Font and Style

Below you will see a row of small pictures. This is the Tool Bar. The Tool Barlets you do some things without using a command. For example:

Font Box: This is the first thing you see on the left. It tells you the nameof the type style, or font, that you are using. You can choose a new font(FONT, o n t , font, fin+)by clicking the arrow to see your choices, thenclicking on the one you want.

I umbers: These numbers tell you the size of your type. Click on the arrowto see how large or small you can make the type-small, normal, huge!

B I U: These three boxes let you change the way the type looks.

B tands for boldface. It makes the type darker.I stands for italics. It makes the type slanted.U stands for underline. It draws a line under the type.

Lines: You might see three or four boxes with straight lines in them.These let you move the words you type to different parts of the screen. Youcan choose to put them all the way t o the left, in the middle (centered), allthe way to the right, or all lined up on both sides (justified).

Before you begin to type, choose a font and a size. You can do this on the Tool

Bar by clicking a new font or type size. You can also do this by clicking Format,then clicking Font and Style. Here you will see fonts and sizes and colors!Choose a color, just as you would a font or a size-by clicking the arrow besidethe Color Box to see the choices, then clicking the color once. When youvemade all your choices, click the OK button t o return t o the main screen.

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I Paint Up a Storm ISo now youre an expert a t the writing stuff. What else is there? Painting! Didyou know you could be a master artist without picking up a single paintbrush?

You can actually paint pictures on your computer! SinceYOUU

be doing a lot ofthat in the activities in this book, heres a guide to your Paint program:

Click on the word Start at the bottom of your screen. Remember this list? Clickon Programs again, but this time choose the word Accessories. Yes, heres a n ~ ~ h e plist of choices. See the word Paint? You guessed it-thats where you click!

Whoa! Look at all your paint tools! And colors! Here3 what some of the toolsin the Tool Box can do:

Mencil: draws a linePaintbrush: paints a thicker line 2=1

* Shapes: these make exact shapesDotted-Line Box: can move or deleteart or typeEraser: erases color

To change a color, just click the color~ you want in the Paint Box. If you click

the Paint Box twice, youll get a gridwith even more colors!

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IClick mh e ik or d File at the top of the screen, then click Save. A box called SaveAs will appear. This box may have some folders in it. Folders are where the docu-ments you save are kept. Choose a folder to keep your work in, or create a newfolder. At the top of the Save As box, youll see a folder with a star beside it. Clickit once. In the box that appears, type the name you want to use for your folderover the highlighted words New Folder. Then hit the Return key twice, which willopen your new folder. Type the name of your document in the white box that saysFile Name. Click the Save button. Your work has been saved!

Once youve saved your file, youll want to print it out (see below) or start a new one.Click into File, then New to start a new page. Your old art will disappeaq and a new,clean canvas will take its place. To open the file again, click File, then Open. Click onthe name of your file once, and click the Open button again. Your work will appear!

IYoull have to print out your paintings to put together mobiles, posters, andother projects. It would be best if you had a color printer. If not, dont worry!

1. Click File, then click Print.2. A box with print choices will come on the screen. Some of the activities inthis book work better if you choose to print your page in the Landscape for-mat. When you need to do that, the instructions will explain how. Otherwisejust click OK, and your page will print.

The activities in this book are based on Windows 95, using Microsoft Works andthe Paint program. Many versions of Microsoft Works exist. So you may have toalter the instructions slightly to fit your computer. Also, the pictures show how afinished product may look. Dont worry if your art looks a bit different. It probablywill! Thats because you used your ideas and your computer!

Computers can do about a billion things, so get ready to see all the fun stuff you:an do with your computer. Experiment by playing with the pictures, by cuttingand pasting, and by choosing fonts, sizes, and colors. Be crazy, be creative, andhave a blast!

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b ChaDter One

You probably had to learn the names of a ll the shapewhen you were younger. That's because shapes areimportant in geometry, a major math s7 here are all kinds of rules about shapes, like how the -

four sides of a square have t o be exactly the same size.Plus you can figure out lo ts of number problems

jus t by knowing how much space i s inside acircle. For now, experiment more with shapes1 -

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deal-triangles, squares,circles . . ld news,

right? Well, check outall these funky waysto make them, alongwith other kinds of

shapes. Then you caneven put your shapes

together for a mobile youcan hang in your room!

Faint pro&ram.

C L lie Rectangle tool, thell lll,,ve the cursoronto the blank canvas. Press and hold down t hmouse button, then move the mouse to drag thecursor. A rectangle will form! Release the mousebutton when your shape is ready. Practice mak-

ing squares and rectangles of all sizes.

Click the Ellipse tool, which makes circles and ovals. Again, move th e cur-sor onto the page, press and hold down the mouse button, then drag it tomake the shape. When you like your shape, release the mouse button.Practice making all kinds of circles and ovals in different sizes.

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Click a color in the Paint Box, thenclick the Paint Can. Click inside theshape. Its filled with color, right? -

shapes with the Straight-Line tool.Try drawing a triangle, a star, a parallelogram, and a hexagon. When youfill them with color, be careful! Make sure all the lines are connected (usethe Magnifier tool). If theyre not, your entire page will fill with cJor

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Also try the Pencil and Pain hus h tools ~to draw shapes. The Pencil gives you athin line, and the Paintbrush gives you athicker line. Fill the shapes with color,but again make sure the shape is closedup so you dont coIor thl- -Thole page!

On a new canvas, try making pictures with your shapes! For example, arectangle could be an apartment building, and squares could be the win-dows. A big circle could be a wheel. A square with a triangle on top canmake a house. Make 7- ma--- &\in-- a n - 7 - T - =,,;CL L a ,LA,,, x T f i U 8 n v x r l

IDont forget to Save and Print your paintings. Before you print them,click File, then Page Setup. Youll see a box called Orientation, with twoI hnirpc-Pnrtrsit and T .nnrfcranP Click T,andqcane- then click O K . Now nrint!

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Have you ever been to a museumand seen paintings with lots of

shapes and colors splashed a llover them? These are abstractpaintings, and a lot of modernart ists paint them. The art is ts

paint what they feel-but they'realso using math because recogniz-ing shapes is a major math skill, asyou already know. Make your ownmodern-art painting, using al l the

colors and shapes you want.

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Go into the Paint program. Thistime, click on the funny lookingPolygon tool.

Hold down the mouse button,drag the mouse to move the cursoracross the screen, and then liftyour finger. Keep doing this-drag and lift. drag: and lift.

znt and ha tun! Make tne lines cross one anotl.res inside others, or whatever you want. Try to make 1-

ic picture you can. Make sure when you are finished that t

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es! Move the number to its correct place on the clock.d 3 to make the lock numberse and Print the e. Cut it out L

Then make the hands for the clock on a new screen. Remember to make a smallhand to point to what hour it is, and then a bigger hand to point to how manyminutes have passed in that hour. Draw the hands with either the Pencil, thePaint Brush. or the Shape tools. Add color to the hands too, with the Paint Can

Save and lJrint the hands, and then cutthem out. Put the clock together byattaching the hands in the middle of theface with a brass fastener, which you can

get from your parents. Hang the clock inyour room. The next time you have to besomewhere important, set the clock to

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Now that youve experimented with shapes, its tim e to getback to numbers. Number knowledge is superimportant for

counting and adding, things you probably do i n school. Thats notall numbers are used for, though. If you check out s tu ff around

your house, youll probably see numbers on just about every-thing-books, TV sets, food labels, even video games. Heres a

1 hance to sharpen your number skills on the computer.1 PICTU RE- PE RF ECTWhat do pictures have to do with math? This book isnt about art;

its about math! In this activity you choose any picture you want andthen print out tons o f copies to use as fun tools fo r practicing

addition, subtraction, and even multiplication and division!

Go into the word-processing program. Look at your ClipArt (under Insert,remember) and choose a Picture vou like. Insert it onto vour page.

~ m t , nd men chck ~ o p y . WLLL eem m e n u t u g nas nappened, ~ u tth e computer has actually made a copy of your picture. Click outside thepicture, so you see a big, blinking cursor next to it. Click Edit, then clickPaste. See, theres another picture!

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,uicK Calf, tnen rasre ten more times, ancl you'll see ten more pictures. Youalready had two, so now you have a total of twelve. Print out the pictures,then cut them up so each one is separate.

-Llrst use y m r pictures to practice adding. Grab some of tn e pictures, countthem, and put them in a pile. Take a few more pictures, count them, andput them in another pile. Add the two numbers together to see how manypictures you would have if you combined the piles. Check your answer bycombining the two piles of pictures and counting them!

iuow try sumraction. r u t tne pictures DacK mto tneK two piles. Subtract thenumber of pictures in one pile from the total number of pictures you addedtogether in step 4. Your answer should be the number of pictures in the other pile

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For some clues on division and multiplication, put all twelve of your picturestogethel; then separate them into twoequal piles of pictures. Count the picturesto make sure each pile has the sameamount. Now you have two piles of sixpictures, right? So you can see that when

you divide twelve by two (which is whatyou did when you put twelve pictures intctwo different piles!), the answer is six.

Multiplication is the opposite of division,so this time you're putting th e piles backtogether. And two piles of six picturesequals twelve pictures-so now youknow that six multiplied by two (thatmeans two piles of six) equals twelve!

Keep playing with your pictures to getmore practice with addition, subtraction,r tiplication, and divisic-

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Have you ever played a funcard game, like Go Fish, Old

Maid, or Crazy Eights? Nowyou can make your owncards and use them to

invent math card games!

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G o into the Paint program. Click on thPRectangle tool, and draw the outline ofa big rectangle for your cai

Inside the card draw the number 1. Experiment with the Shape tools, thtPencil, and the Paintbrush to draw it. If you want, fill the number withcolor too. Then draw one picture of something on the card, like one floweior one tree.

I rint A few conies of the niimber card.the card, and make another one, following step2. This time, draw the number 2 and paint twopictures of something, such as two fish or two

ice-cream cones. Print it out. Follow these steps for

math operations, like a plus sign, minus sign, mu1tiplication and division signs, and an equals sign.

all the numbers up to 10. Next make cards for

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5 Once all of your cards are printed out,use them to work on the skills youpracticed in Picture-Perfect bymixing and matching number cardswith math operations cards and

figuring out the answers.Then print out more copies of thecards and make up some games toplay with your friends.

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puzzle games where you haveto match up questions and

answers? Some of them can be

really tricky. In this activity youget to make your own puzzlegame! Making these math puz-zles on your computer will be a

great review for what youvedone so ar, and you can design

them however you want.

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u v iiuu lilt: ~ a i i i r rugralll. LULKthe Rectangle tool, and make amedium-size shape.

Now click the Pencil tool. Draw azigzag line down the middle of therectangle.

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IRACTION ACTION

Have you ever eaten half

a pizza? Or a piece of acake thats been cut intofour slices? Besides

making yourself reallystuffed, youre also doing

something else-usingfractions! Fractions are an

important math skill, soheres how to learn all

about them while makingsome fun food pictures.

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Go into th e Paint program. With theEllipse tool draw a circle. Imagine its apizza, and add colors, like yellow cheese,red tomato sauce, and then your favoritetoppings, like pink circles of pepperoni orgreen strips of green peppers. This is awhole pizza pie. In fraction language, awhole of something is the number 1. With

w thethe A icon, write the nnizza,opy and Paste the pizza to make a second one, Clicx tool and draw a box around your pizza, like you

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j Now Paste th e pizza again to make a third one. Draw a line across the mid-dle and another one down the middle. Now youve cut the pizza into q.uar-ters. How many pieces do you have now? Four! So four quarters make awhole. Write another fraction equation beneath the pizza:

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Do you see the pattern? You add the top numbers of the fractions to gelthe total fraction. If the top number and the bottom number are the same,then you have a whole, or l !

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Make another pizza, and slice it up in otner ways. i r y to slice i t into mreeequal pieces. These are thirds (i i + i = or 1). Or slice it into sixZqual pieces. These are sixths (1 T; + 1 1 1 1 6E + - = -

6 Cr 1).

ave and Print ouryour pizzas. Gluethem to constructionpaper to keep as aguide to help withvour fraction action.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?Which pizza topping do your friends like better-sausage or pepperonl?Which CPROM game do they think is the most fun to play? Which ice-

cream flavor rates the highest? These are things you would ask in asufvey-a l i s t of questions that ask for people's opinions on all sorts of

stuff. To figure out the results of a survey, you have to add up the answers,and that means using math. Make up your own survey and then learn how

to make a bar gPaph and a pie chart to show the answers you g d

First, come up with a question you want t o ask your friends. Decide howmany things they'll get to choose between, like three different types of soda(Coke ,Sprite, or Mountain D e w ) .Now take the survey and write downh n x x r m g n x r n e n n l e r h n n c p p a r h kind a c their fsvor-te.Ilime to make the bar graph! b o mt

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Underneath the first line you drew LZ the A icon to write the names of thechoices you gave your friends. For example, if you asked about soda, youwould write the word Coke, then leave some space, then write the wordSprite, then leave more space, and then Mounta in D e w.

Now look ar. Llie answt13 y u u got fror,, yuur l r I L l l u 3 . I1uvv .,,any peGYlL 1

Ichose each thing? Using the Rectangle tool, draw that many boxes over theword. If seven people chose Coke, draw seven boxes above the word Coke.Using the Paint Can, fill in your boxes with color. Do the same for eachchoice. Save and Print your bar graph. Now you can tell which was themost popular, by looking at the column with the highest number of boxes.

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instance, if four people choseCoke in the soda question, colorin four slices with the color youchose for Coke.

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Do you ever wonder how much a humanh i g h s , r how tall the Empire State Building is?

Want to know how long your dads legs are? How aboutyour moms? You can find the answers to all of thesequestions by measuring, which is-you know whats

Isnt it great the wayyou get taller all the

time? Dont you wantto know whenever

youve grown anotherinch? If you want to

see how much youregrowing, make this

wall chart you can useto measure yourself!

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Go into the word-processing program. Is there aruler at the top of your page? If not, click View,then Ruler. The ruler should measure 6 incheslong. (If it doesnt, click File, then Page Setup.Change the right and left Margins to 1.25 inches.Click OK.) If there is still a Help Menu on yourscreen, you need to make it smaller by hitting the

allLA nto the Header. lIl i the llab or the Space Lar key ulitil thLcursor

appears under the number 1 on the ruler. Type in the number 1. Continuefor the numbers 2, 3 , 4 , and 5 , placing the numbers under the ruler num-bers. Make your type big if you like. Now you have the inches marked onyour screen.

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Now add color. Click onto the main part of the page. Click Insert, ther-Drawing. A paint canvas will appear. It looks a little like the paint canvas inthe Paint program, but it doesn't have as many tools. Click a color in thePaint Box. Click both Line and Fill. Choose the Rectangle tool, and drawone on the canvas. It will fill with color.

Click Edit, then click Select All. Click Edit again, then click Copy. Exit thedrawing tool by clicking the X in the upper-right corner of the paint canva,.I A r n e c c Q r r P m Q x r Q C k ifi'"u want to save "our d-wing. That's up to you!Back on your word-processing page, click into Edit, then Paste. Yourcolored box will appear! Make it fit across the entire page. Click it once soth e fr=lnle chows up. Then drag the Resize dots.

Make more sections for the wall chart, each time increasing the numbers. Sofor the second page type number 6 in place of the 1, number 7 in place of the2 on the ruler, and keep going like this on every page, printing out each one,until you have enough sheets to measure 45 inches. Change the colorsof the pages if you want, and paint pictures in the main rectan+ tnn

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You measure some-

thing t o see how bigit

is, but also so you cancompare it to otherstuff. Like, which is

longer-your pet lizardor your friends ham-

ster? Create a ruler onthe computer to mea-

sure and compare

stu ff around yourhome. (Now you can

find out who really hasthe biggest bedroom!)

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I and that it measuresJ ix inches long.Cub, Insert, then Drawing. Move the cursor tothe top of the screen so that its touching thewords Microsoft Drawing. Hold down the mousebutton, and drag the mouse down. This willmove the paint screen. Move the screen downuntil you see the ruler on the word-processingpage, and make sure the left side of the canvas islined UD with the be9;inning of the ruler.

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IThen click the Kectangle tool and draw a long rectangle mar measures r 11ic11-es, following the ruler at the top of the word-processing page. Click theStraight-Line tool to make the inch marks along your ruler, again checking

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Have you ever heard the expres Y.. money makes the ..orld goaround"? Money isn't really the only thing-where would we be w iout chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream or pizza? Still, money is

understand how money works, you'll need

some more math lessons. These activities will he-11 become a master of math and monev.

imnortant, and it's what you use to buy those yummy

Now's your chancet o make some

m on ey -o n you1computer! Make

fake bills andcoins, then use

them to practicespending. You'll

learn addition and

subtraction just byspending money!

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u u l l L u the Paint program. Start with t L Rectangle tool,and make an outline of a rectangle. Fill it with fun col-ors, using the Paint Can. Copy and Paste the dollar billso you have six of them on your screen. Make sure youmove each new bill to the side after pasting it. Now fillin money amounts for each bill. Make the first one 1dollar. Make the first one 1 dollar. Then make 5-dollarbills, 10-dollar bills, 20-dollar bills, 50-dollar bills, and100-dollar bills. Save and Print your bills, and if youqeed more, ;list print out more copies of them later.

Now use the Ellipse tool to make coins. Look at real quarters, nickels, anddimes to remember their sizes. With the Paint Can, fill the coins with color.With the Pencil tool, write in the values for each. Save your money.

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ow figure out how much each t y p af coinworth. Quarters are the most-twenty-five

cents. So how many dimes and nickels equalone quarter? You need two dimes and onenickel to equal a twenty-five-cent quarter.

Copy and Paste the dime you painted so thatyou have one more dime. Use the Dotted-Line Box tool to move around the coithat the two dimes are with the nickel

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with the A icon, add + and = signs betweenthe coins to show that two dimes plus onenickel equals a quarter. Repeat these stepsto show other combinations that equal aquarter, like five nickels. Or you can showhow many pennies are in a nickel, or howm g n v nirlrplc cape in 9 Aiqe.

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Save and Print your coins when you're done, and keep them with the bills yomade. You can use the fake money in games you play with friends!

When you go to the grocery store, you have to make sure thefood you buy won't cost more than the money you've brought

with you. Otherwise, you'll face big-time embarrassment! Make agrocery list for things you might buy in a store, then find out

the prices to see how much money you would need.

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In the word-yluccaaug plugram, flip through YUUI Liiy-arL I ~ K S to rinu apicture of a food you would like to buy. You can also paint a picture of thefood in your Paint program.

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Click onto the picture, thengo into Format and click TextWt?p, thpn

Move the cursor beside yourart, and type in the foodname. Also type in a line byholding down the Shift and theDash keys (between 0 and =).Move your food name and

the line with the Tab key orSpace Bar.

5 Hit Return until the cursor is3

epeat steps 2 through 3 toadd more foods to your list.

Below y ~ =ast food item,type in Total:

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L V C I Y L l l l l C y u u r Lcalll pays;,color in a box in the right col ~umn with markers or crayonsor whatever you want to use.For instance, when they win,

color in a box above the wordWins. When your team hasplayed nine games, print outnew chart for the next ninegames. Keep going until theer f the season

At the end of the season coun-

up how many boxes are col-ored in for each word andthen note whether the teamhad more wins or losses.

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Isnt it exciting watching a game and w a M n g to see of yourf a v d t e team will scare a basket or hit a home run? Theres math again-

counting all the goals to see whos winning. Thats what sooreboardsare for. They show you how many points each team has. Make your

own sooreboard for the sport yau really love to watch.

c tems:~ r o nto the Yaint program. Choose the Kectangle tool, and create a longbox. With the Paint Can, fill the box with color.

Now write a title on the top of the scoreboard using the A icon. You callmove the text by using the Space Bar and Tab keys. Or move the type bydragging a Dotted-I i e Box around it.

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L l l C K tne nectange cool again to make smau D O X ~ S or c a m time perrou 111the game. These will go on your scoreboard. Make sure the boxes are smallenough so that you can fit in as many as you need, making enough torecord each teams score in each time period. For instance, a baseball score-board needs eighteen boxes because there are nine innings and you want to

show what both teams score in all of the innings. A basketball game onlyneeds eight boxes for the four quarters. Fill the boxes with white colorusing the Paint Can so that you will be able to write in them. Dont forgetto make white boxes at the bottom ol both columns to record the totalnumber of points each team scored in the game.

Then click File, andcheck Page Setug-.Make sure youveclicked on Portrait.Then Save and Prim.Save out as manycopies as you want,so you can use a newone at each game.

Use your scoreboardto keep score of yourteams progress dur-ing a game. Add upall the points to shornthe total numberCcorJ

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