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These calendar worksheets are composed of unique reading calendars, printable calendars, blank calendars and coloring calendars of different themes and formats. Activities like filling the blank calendars, drawing your own calendars, tracing and coloring calendars are also available.

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Reading Calendar Worksheets

Reading calendar worksheets feature reading monthly and yearly calendars. Marking calendars are also included for classroom activity.

Printable Calendar 2024

This new year's printable calendars are available in two formats - monthly calendars and single page yearly calendars in three different themes. Print them to enter the world of fantasy.

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Thoughtful Themes are presented in these blank calendar pdfs. Fill in the blank calendars and mark your own events, notes and reminders.

Jan: Fruitful, Prosperous 2024

Feb: Be Mine. Sharing & Caring

Mar: Resurrection of Jesus

Apr: All fools Day

May: Strong Maternal Bond

Jun: Secure Paternal Bond

Jul: Celebrate. Freedom is not Free

Aug: The Warmth of Summer

Sep: March to School

Oct: Trick or Treat!!

Nov: Be Thankful for the Good

Dec: Merry Christmas

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January | February | March | April | May

June | July | August | September | October

November | December

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Color the calendar

Beautiful pictures for all the months are given for students as an exercise to color them. Color all the calendars and enjoy them.

January: Collect Nectar and Pollen

February: The Tranquil House

March: The Huge Tusker

April: Eight Tentacles and the Fish

May: Eagle's Pleasant Shower

June: Big Fat Hen and the Chicks

July: Pouched Kangaroo & Humped camel

August: Crane and Duck Gossip

September: Mysterious Shark's Prey

October: Scaring Halloween

November: Super boy and Super girl

December: Christmas Carol

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January: Jumping Dolphins

February: Kitty Loves Milk

March: Conserve the Trees

April: Lazy Horsy

May: Hear the Music

June: Birdy Back Home

July: Happy Monkey with Bananas

August: Spidy Web

September: Hooting Train

October: Summer Camp

November: Attack the Aliens

December: Santa Arrives

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The Calendar Problem

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• Author: Dan
• Posted: Wed, December 2, 2015, last modified December 5, 2019
• Topics: Numbers and Operations in Base Ten , Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Grades: 4 , 5
• Type: Problem
• Keywords: Addition , Multiplication

Topics: Multiplication, addition, Materials: Calendar, Hundreds chart, pencil and paper, calculator (optional) Common Core: 4.OA.1, 4.OA.3, 4.OA.5, 4.NBT.5, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP6, MP7, MP8

How can you add up these numbers so quickly?

Why we love this lesson

Simple to launch, instantly engaging and accessible, this puzzle is a beautiful demonstration of the usefulness of multiplication. Not only that, figuring out why the trick works, even when you notice it does, requires exactly the kind of thinking we want our students to do.

Draw a 3 by 3 square on a calendar (only getting days from a single month inside the square).

Challenge your students to add up the numbers as quick as they can. You can even let them use calculators. But, no matter how fast they add, you can always beat them. What’s the fast way to add these nine numbers together?

Once the students understand the question, let them work in pairs to try to figure it out. The teacher can circulate through the classroom, asking students to explain their ideas, and, as necessary, providing hints to students who are having trouble finding traction with the problem.

Hint 1 . Just trying a bunch of examples and looking for patterns, either by listing or by coloring them in on a hundreds chart, can help a lot, especially if you organize the outcomes. If we try different squares on the November page above, we’ll get numbers like: 99 108 117

Shifting the square to the right seems to add 9. Will this always work? Why would it? What would happen for different months?

Hint 2 There may be a way to see something if you use a 2 by 2 square instead of a 3 by 3 square. Or you could try a 1 by 3 rectangle.

Hint 3 Maybe there’s a way to break the addition problem down into manageable pieces. What if you added each row of the 3 by 3 square up, then added those sums? Or what if you added the columns first?

Bring students together to share their solutions. There are many ways to answer this question, and hopefully students will come up with several. One possible solution and argument is below.

The answer turns out always to be 9 times the number at the center of the square. This is because every opposite pair of numbers averages out to the number in the center. For example, instead of adding 10 and 12, we could just add two 11s. Instead of adding 3 and 19, we could just add two 11s. Adding all nine numbers comes out to the same as adding nine of the middle number, which is just a multiplication problem. That’s how the teacher is able to do it so easily!

• Is there a quick way to add up the numbers in a 4 by 4 square?
• What about rectangles?
• Calendars are a little small… if we try drawing squares on a 100s chart, is there still a quick way do it?
• What is the sum of all the numbers on a 100s chart?

Tips for the Classroom

• For students, knowing that a quick way exists but that it’s just out of reach is a big motivator. Don’t give away the trick!
• The extensions are so natural that it’s definitely worth spending time on them. They may make up half or more of the time spent on this lesson. They’re also a great opportunity for students to find their own versions of this argument.
• For some squares (i.e., 4 by 4), there’s no clear “even” entry. Figuring out what to do in this situation will be an excellent challenge for kids who are ready for it.

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Calendar Problems(Tricks and Tips)

Students frequently find calendar problems to be perplexing. Using the proper strategies, calendar problems can be readily resolved. Remember that with consistent effort and practice, you can attain perfection.

How to find the day of any date from the year 1900 to 2099?

What is a Calendar?

A calendar is a visual representation of the days, weeks, and months of a specific year.

• 1 week = 7 days
• 1 month = 4 weeks
• 1 year = 365 or 366 days = 52 weeks + 1 extra day or 52 weeks + 2 extra days.

There are 365 days in a typical year and 366 in a leap year. Once every four years, we have a leap year.

Leap year check:

Suppose the given year is 2004, 2004 is divisible by 4 and not by 100. Therefore, it is a leap year.

If the given year is 2000, 2000 is divisible by 4 and 100. Further verification is needed to check the divisibility of 2000 by 400. 2000 is also divisible by 400. Therefore, 2000 is a leap year.

☀ In general centuries needed double verification.

Code Number for days:

There are few codes to memorize are given here to solve the calendar problem easier.

Code Number for Months:

Codes to memorize for months are as follows

We need specific steps of calculations to find the year code for the years 2000 to 2099:

First divide the last two digits by 4

Ignore the remainder, add the quotient to the last two digits.

Now divide the obtained number by 7. The remainder gives the year code.

Find the year code for 2020?

20/4 = 5, remainder = 0

25/7, remainder = 4

Therefore, the year code for 2020 is 4.

Calculating the year code for the years 1900 to 1999 :

Ignore the remainder, add the quotient to the last two digits and add 1 to the answer.

Find the year code for 1979?

79/4, Quotient = 19, remainder = 3

99/7, remainder = 1.

Therefore, the year code for 1979 is 1.

Day of the date between 1900 to 2099

Having learnt about month code, year code and day. There is a formula that helps us to find the day of any date between 1900 and 2099.

(Year code + Month code + Date)mod 7

mod 7 means finding the remainder after dividing by 7.

Using the above formula we can find the day problem for any given date from the year 1900 to 2099.

Find the day of 21/05/2023?

Here year code is 23/4 = 5, Remainder =3.

28/7= 4; Remainder = 0.

Therefore, the year code for 2023 is 0.

Month code for May is 0

The formula to find the day is (Year code + Month code + Date)mod 7

(0 + 0 + 23)mod 7 =21/7 = 3; Remainder =0

The day code for 0 is Sunday.

Therefore the day of 21/05/2023 is Sunday

Find the day of 07/04/1979?

Here the year code is :

79/4 = 19, Remainder = 3

79 +19+1 = 99

99/7 = 14; Remainder =1.

Therefore the year code is 1.

Month code for April is 5.

(1 +5 + 7)mod 7 = 13/7 = 1; Remainder =6.

The day code for 6 is Saturday.

Therefore the day of 07/04/1979 is Saturday.

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Calendar Problems Tricks And Shortcuts With Examples

• Post author: Sandeep Verma
• Reading time: 7 mins read

In this article, we will be aiming at various calendar problem’s tricks and concepts which is going to save your time while solving these types of questions.

Calendar Problem Concepts

First, let’s brush up basic concepts to which we already familiar with:

• 1 week = 7 days
• 1 year = 365 days or 366 days

A normal year has 365 days, consisting of 52 weeks and one extra day. On the other hand, a leap year has 366 days, consisting of 52 weeks and two extra days. A leap year always repeat after 4 years.

• Normal year = 365 days = 52 weeks and 2 extra days
• Leap year = 366 days = 52 weeks and 1 extra day (one extra days Occurs in the February Month = 29 days)

To check Whether a year is a leap year or not?

A year that consists of 366 days is known as a leap year. It is easy to know which year is a leap year. Let’s have a look:-

• For example, 2016 is a leap year, since it is divisible by 4 but not 100. however, for the year 2000, we find that it divisible by 4 but also by 100 too, in such cases we can’t say it is a leap year or not, for this we have to follow 2nd step.
• Since 2000 is also divisible by 400, it is a leap year.

Now lets come to the Calendar tricks you should know:

Month codes

• For Normal years

• For Leap years

Century codes

Types Questions Asked from Calendar Problem

Directly asking what day will be on a particular date, case 1: for normal or ordinary year, case 2: for leap year, directly asking which day will be after the given number of days from the mentioned day.

Step to solve it:

Step 1. Divide the given number of days by 7 and find the remainder

Step 2. Add the given remainder to corresponding week code, and the resultant code will be our answer

Q. If today is Thursday then after 15 days, the day will be?

Step 1. 15/7 = Quotient 2, Remainder 1

Step 2. Thursday = 4, 4+1 = 5 , refers to Friday

Can ask which would be the very first mentioned day in a given month of a year

Need to perform a basic addition operation

Q. When will be the first Friday fall in the month of July 2019?

On 1st July 2019, the day will be Monday by using the method mentioned in the above example. On 5th July will be first Friday

In this, date along with day will be given and using that day as a base, you need to figure out what will be the day for the asked date

Q If 26th May 2018 falls Saturday then What day will be on 26th May 2019

Between this, Only a single February falls which is in the year 2019. So we add only odd days of 2019, skipping 2018

Day on 26th May 2018 = Saturday = 6

Odd days in the year 2019 is = 1

So, 26th May 2019 falls on Sunday.

Below are some practise question for Calendar Problem:

Question. What would be the day on 25th January 1950? Answer Wednesday

Question. If the day on 4th October 2018 was Thursday, then what will be the day on 2nd February 2019? Answer Saturday

Question. What will be the day on 20th May 2030?

Answer Monday

Question. When will be the first Sunday fall in the month of July 2024?

Answer 6th July 2024

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