Color the Crowd: Macy’s Parade Math | A Thanksgiving Day Worksheet

Bring real-world math into your classroom with this engaging Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade themed activity! Perfect for upper elementary students, this front-and-back worksheet helps students practice multiplication, division, and representing large numbers visually.

Front Side – Cell Phones:
Students use cell phone icons to represent 500,000 viewers each and color in the number of phones needed to show the parade’s total 31.3 million viewers across all platforms.

Back Side – TVs:
Students use TV icons to represent 500,000 viewers each and color in the number of TVs needed to show the 23.6 million NBC-only viewers.

Skills Practiced:

• Multiplication & division with large numbers
• Visual representation of data
• Critical thinking and problem-solving
• Real-world math application

Why You’ll Love It:

• Easy to use as a stand-alone activity, homework, or math center
• Perfect for grades 3–5 (can be adapted for older or younger students)
• Engaging parade theme that connects math to current events and real-life statistics

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