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License Plate Special
What you'll need:
License plates, paper, pencil, and ruler
What to do:
- Copy down a license plate number as you are traveling in your car, walking around the neighborhood, or sitting on a park bench watching cars go by. Read the license plate as a number (excluding the letters). For example, if the license were 663M218, the number would be six hundred and sixtythree thousand two hundred and eighteen.
- Find other license plates and read their numbers. Is the number less than, greater than, or equal to yours?
- Estimate the difference between your number and another license plate. Is it 10, 100, 1,000, or 10,000?
- Record the names of the states of many different license plates as you see them. From which state do you see the most? Which has the fewest? Prepare a chart or graph to show your findings.
Parent tip:
This license plate activity encourages reading, recognizing numbers, noticing symbols, writing, counting, and graphing.
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