Numbers Are Everywhere!
Share with children the everyday use of numbers.
Use these numbers to create math practice; add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Open a book - use page numbers
Merchandise catalogs - prices, product numbers, descriptions (sizes, weights, quantity)
Dice - make your own number cubes
Toys & Games - rules (steps), scoring, spinners
Time - traditional & digital clocks
Food packages - nutrition information, charts, capacity, weight, quantity
UPC codes
Rulers - Scales - Thermometers
Sales receipts
Recipes - amounts, fractions, measurements, increasing/decreasing recipe
Advertisements - Money, percents, dates, times
Coupons
Calendars - Numbers and patterns
Automobiles - speedometer, mileage, time, license plates, truck numbers
Signs - billboards
Shopping - prices, aisle numbers, money, discounts, making a list
Money - counting, value, dates, serial numbers on bills
Allowances - Values of items, saving money, estimation
Addresses - street & house numbers, odd & even
Telephone numbers - patterns, make big numbers, use a phone book
Appliances - radio/TV, stove, microwave, computers, calculators
Newspapers - page numbers, temperatures, graphs, charts, sports scores and statistics
    search for numbers and number words
Word Problems - planning and buying for parties, menus for dinner, going to a movie,
    preparing for company, playing games, planning  a vacation,
    counting and organizing a collection, sports

The book Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith said it,
"YOU KNOW, YOU CAN THINK OF ALMOST EVERYTHING AS A
MATH PROBLEM."