Mid Calendar Month Math Majority Review! Mastering Math Facts: Multiplication & Segmentation Aligned Amongst The Mutual Core

I am really excited today to stimulate got a Teacher Resource Math Book review for a lately published book...

Laura Candler's Mastering Math Facts: Multiplication together with Division aligned amongst the Common Core

I enjoyed the chance to review this novel mass for 3rd flat teachers to give their students a hands-on approach to pedagogy math facts  I could run into some minute flat teachers showtime it mid-year too.  Laura accurately states the truth nearly math for immature children inwards the introduction, "When students haven’t mastered the basics, they get down to create create amongst many other math concepts. They lose confidence inwards themselves, intend they are non smart and, worse, intend they volition never last practiced inwards math. One past times one, the doors of futurity math together with scientific discipline opportunities get down to roughly these students."

In Mastering Math Facts, Laura Candler offers first-class hands-on activities for teachers to guide students to utilization the concepts behind multiplication together with segmentation for the firstly one-half of the book.  Activities include motor activities together with conceptually drawing out math problems.  Laura easily describes lessons that present relationships betwixt addition, working amongst groups of objects, together with includes real-life applications.  I peculiarly liked her Division Number Sentence papers.   She lists the Common Core standards on each activeness to brand certain yous are roofing all your Common Core areas.

The residue of the mass shows yous how to laid your Mastering Math Facts System amongst a few themed options of H2O ice cream scoops or an "On Board" prepare theme.  That's followed past times a chapter nearly assessing your students.  But wait, there's more... : )  the terminal component of the mass shares a handful of games together with activities to encourage mastery through practice.

I highly recommend this mass to teachers who desire to learn the agreement of the concepts behind multiplication together with division. I concur amongst Laura's controversy inwards the firstly chapter: "Requiring students to memorize times tables when they don’t empathize them is a big mistake."

What are some ways yous learn multiplication together with segmentation concepts inwards your classroom?  Do yous intend you'd similar to role Laura Candler's mass of Mastering Math Facts?

Math Activeness Thursday: Ccss 3.Nbt.A.1 (Rounding)

This volition hold upwardly a brusque post.  Combine toothache, teething baby, having a mutual depression temperature come upwardly on equals a rattling sleepless night!

I had late done a rounding post service (which yous tin see here), but going amongst my novel topic of a CCSS for MaTh it rounding happened to come upwardly up again.  Here is 3.NBT.A.1--Use house value agreement to circular whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

Since I don't convey much fourth dimension or loose energy for coming upwardly amongst a novel action I but convey some suggestions...

• Show things visually (use manipulatives or for a alter endeavor using food--like raisins, grapes, etc.)
• Put the ones into picayune bags of tens, therefore in 1 lawsuit yous convey 10 of those seat it into a box of a hundred.
  
• Have fun playing amongst coin inward a pretend store.
• Have the kids play a game similar to duck duck goose where at that spot is a kids representing the ones, 1 representing the tens too some other 1 for the hundreds.  They convey cards inward front end of them too they choice a random digit.  When ii kids larn unopen to too eventually 1 says "round" too the other volition tell "tens" or "hundreds" the kids sitting heighten a digit therefore the get-go child standing to outcry the right response gets a betoken too sits down.  The 1 who needs to a greater extent than exercise gets to proceed playing.

Also, over at Math Coach's Corner she had a number delineate of piece of job rounding post that was excellent!

Now it is your plough to link up!  Have a happy Thursday!

M For Multiplication! (A To Z Challenge)

M for Multiplication--yay!  I dear to learn multiplication.  How close you!

Kids similar shortcuts, right?!  When y'all are pedagogy your students permit them know that when y'all multiply y'all are actually simply doing a shortcut.

3x4 is actually doing a shortcut for 3 groups of 4 things as well as instead of adding them all 1 at a fourth dimension nosotros tin recollect the totals of these!  I create stimulate got conceptual multiplication flash cards (for sale on TN, TpT) for 1x6 through 1x12.  There are iii cards for each multiple!   This is what they hold back like...

Do your children combat amongst multiplication or create they dear it?

Another agency I similar to learn it is yesteryear looking at patterns on a 100 chart.

It was a wise 4th bird instructor of mine who permit me stimulate got a minor grouping of struggling students as well as create minor tutoring sessions during math time.  That is the yr I know I wanted to endure a teacher.  The moments when my classmates understood how the math patterns worked as well as how multiplication was actually close groups was priceless. : )


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Math Amongst Guild (O Inward The A-Z Challenge)--Making Fraction Strips!

I know, I get got been skipping my MaTh activity Th due to the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to Z challenge, only I'm dorsum for today amongst a focus on 3rd flat (hip, hip, hooray)!  Add your link at the cease if it applies to 3rd grade.

So, my O post service for today volition live almost ordering (no, non ordering pizza--ordering numbers) 3.NF.A.2 as well as 3.NF.A.3

Most 3rd graders should live able to guild numbers actually well--putting a handful of numbers inwards to the lowest degree to greatest or greatest to least, only they may take away a picayune chip of do amongst fractions.  Actually, fifty-fifty some older flat students cope amongst fractions.

This is hands-on... Have the kids create fraction strips to larn almost how to guild fractions.  Yes, do non gear upwards anything else other than strips of newspaper (but they all get got to live the same length).  Have the kids plough the strips into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eights, nineths ( as well as mayhap twelvths as well as eighteenths if you lot want) yesteryear alone folding.  I advise you lot accept each fraction i at a time.

Into halves.

That i should live easy, only notwithstanding you lot should inquire a pupil how they did it.  How did they know it was half?

Then thirds.

Was this tricky?  What makes it difficult?

Fourths.

My 2d grader did it the fastest means amongst folding inwards one-half as well as thus inwards one-half i time again although my 5th grader brought both ends to the center, thus folded each side, as well as folded the middle last.  How do your students do it?

Sixths.

Is it hard?  How did you lot do it? (They volition respect out--or they mightiness already know that they flexure the thirds inwards half)

Eights.

Was this similar to whatever other way?  Maybe similar the fourths?

Just to run across if I could do it--I made a strip into fifths.  If some students desire to eyeball it, they can.  I folded the newspaper thus the 2 sides looked or thus the same every bit the interior section, thus finished the other 2 folds.

Here are the fractions strips!

Just doing this activity your students volition get got a ameliorate feel of how big fractions are as well as some of their equivalents 4/8 is the same every bit 2/4 as well as 1/2.  Seeing a slice of newspaper amongst fraction bars on it isn't every bit memorable every bit making the strips yourself.  You could select to extend this activity to get got the students solve/answer questions amongst them.

Do you lot do this type of activity inwards your class?

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3Rd Course Of Written Report Math: Busy, Busy.

Wow!  Things direct maintain been super busy in addition to I direct maintain been making expert strides on my book.  It is getting gear upward for it's Jan Kickstarter crusade to fund the publishing.  The Pancake Menu is looking awesome!  I actually desire to produce a encompass reveal, simply I am asset off for a flake longer.

With all of that action in addition to working on the script for the video (that we'll hold out filming side past times side week), I direct maintain had no fourth dimension to function on the blog.  I actually appreciate digiblocks for their invitee post service before this week!

So, I don't direct maintain a third bird MaTh ready.  I tried to become it gear upward final week, simply my post service from final calendar week took in addition to then long that I didn't direct maintain fourth dimension to brand a instant post service to schedule.  Do whatever of you lot direct maintain that problem?  It takes in addition to then long to brand a post service that you lot don't fifty-fifty commencement one.

Anyway, if you lot direct maintain time, I invite you lot to add together your third bird math action to the linky party.  You tin purpose this graphic or you lot tin brand a post service or attach an applicable older post.  I can't hold off to meet what you lot direct maintain done!

Take care!  Hope you lot direct maintain a wonderful Autumn!  The link expanse is below.

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3Rd Cast Math: Arithmetics Utilisation Amongst Dice!

Hello teachers in addition to parents!

Today is Th again!  Time for to a greater extent than or less other math activity!

I went to Dollar Tree yesterday in addition to they had these!  So tardily in addition to fun.

You tin brand your ain dice, only I actually loved these because they are foam in addition to they don't brand a ton of dissonance when the kids toss them around.

Here's the activity...

This activeness tin live on equally tardily or equally challenging equally you lot desire to brand it.  Here is a sample of how it goes...

I promise you lot in addition to your students bring fun amongst math!  I'd honey to run into your math posts added to the linky!

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