Rainy Day Math Activities | Weather Word Problems, Number Bank and True or False

Rainy day math activities with weather word problems

These rainy day math activities are a 13 page packet with 80 questions for grades 2 to 4. Every problem takes place on a rainy day, with ducks in a pond, umbrellas, paper boats, rain gauges and puddles.

Students solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division word problems, decide whether rainy day facts are true or false, fill in numbers from a Number Bank and calculate short answers about rain and water.

Teachers who need rainy day math activities for a weather unit or an indoor day will find four sections of 20 questions here, and the packet comes with an answer key, an answer sheet and a lesson plan.

What’s on the pages

The worksheet has four sections of 20 questions each, and each one has its own heading and directions.

• Puddle jump multiple choice: such as 27 ducks in a pond when 13 fly away, 45 paper boats with 19 shared and 80 liters of rainwater with 35 used in a garden.
• Rainy facts true or false: statements such as half of 24 wet umbrellas, 30 centimeters of water being less than 25 centimeters and 36 raindrops divided into 6 groups.
• Rain gauge Number Bank fill in: students choose from the bank, such as 4 millimeters of rain an hour for 8 hours and a rain gauge with 16 millimeters after 9 millimeters evaporate. Not all of the numbers are used.
• Rainy day word problems: students write a number, such as a storm that drops 8 millimeters a day for 9 days and a store with 8 umbrellas on each of 3 stands.

The rain gauge problems use millimeters, centimeters and liters, so students meet measurement in a real weather setting.

What’s in the download

• Student worksheet: 13 pages
• Answer key: 15 pages, with a short explanation after each answer
• Answer sheet: 4 pages
• Lesson plan: 2 pages

The four parts add up to 34 pages, and everything comes as PDF.

How to use these rainy day math activities

The lesson plan is set for 60 minutes: 10 minutes of review, 40 minutes of independent practice and 10 minutes of debrief. Its objectives are to solve the four operations in rainy weather word problems, to judge whether math statements are true, to find missing values from a Number Bank, and to use mental math and problem solving with weather data.

The plan begins with a review of two-digit addition, subtraction and simple multiplication facts on the board. Students then work through the four sections in order, with a reminder that the Number Bank has extra numbers. The class ends by reviewing a few multi-step questions with the answer key.

The materials list a printed worksheet and answer sheet for each student, a teacher copy of the answer key, and pencils and scrap paper.

If it is raining, ask students to guess how many millimeters have fallen and compare it with a question. A real observation makes the numbers more vivid.

The answer sheet keeps the worksheet clean for reuse, and the answer key gives a short explanation after every answer.

Looking for rainy day math worksheets weather math word problems or rain gauge math? These rainy day math activities cover both, and the rainy day math activities with answer key pages let a helper check the work in minutes.

Where it fits

Use it for a weather unit, a spring theme, an indoor day, math centers or homework. Homeschool families can work through one section a day.

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Many teachers use these rainy day math activities in a weekly routine, one section per day, and repeat the set after a few weeks to see growth.

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