Here's a simple back to school school math activity to get kids in grades 3 through 6 thinking about how often they use math in their everyday lives!I like to start by brainstorming a mind map on the board of all the different ways we use simple and complex math in everyday life: money, distance, time, baking, cooking, home improvement, counting, dividing/sharing, art, music, sports, and more!Students think of a specific time they used math over the summer, write a sentence to explain it, and dr