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After you click the picture above, select "Whole Numbers - Positive Only".
CLICK "Times Tables" TO BEGIN
Yes! The time has come! We are practicing multiplication. This week, we will be introducing the zeros, ones, and twos. You can help improve your "multiplication reflexes" by practicing for 5-10 minutes every day. A few of my favorite sites are ones that allow you to focus on a specific set of multiplication problems:
Math Magician (Beware, this one has a timer!)
If you scroll down this page, you'll find many more fun games, including 'Bonk the Mole' and 'Math Models'!
And of course there are many sites located on the third grade web page as well (including many of the ones I've listed).
Sumdog is a site I've been exploring this year. I have assigned all of the students free accounts, which will only allow them to practice multiplication facts (that's all that is offered under their free version). I will give them their usernames and passwords to try Sumdog out very soon. Once logged in, your progress is recorded much like on IXL.
In the meantime, your child can sign on as a guest and play any of the games listed for free. (Talent Show is an awful lot like American Idol.) Just click here and select the game you want to play.
In order to direct the site to focus your practice on multiplication facts, however, you need to look carefully at this menu:
If you select LEVEL 4, you can practice your 2s, 10s, and 5s.
Select LEVEL 5 to practice your 3s and 4s.
Select LEVEL 6 to practice your 6s.
Select LEVEL 8 to practice your 7s, 8s, and 9s.
You can change games at any time.
The key is to multiplication mastery is to make practice fun and consistent! Have fun exploring and thank you in advance for encouraging your child to practice daily.
I know you're busy practicing those addition and subtraction facts, right? Here is another game you can play at home to help increase your mathematical speed. You can choose your own avatar and start earning carrots while you practice math!
This morning we completed our usual Caught Ya entry and added the five new words to our Spelling Dictionaries (they're all contractions this week). Afterward, we worked on our Mother's Day books. I would send this home with your brother, but I don't want Mom to sneak a peek!
For math, we worked on something rather complicated. We used base 10 blocks to work out complicated multiplication problems.
In the problem 8 x 14, we built 8 rows of 14 blocks (one long and four cubes), starting in the bottom left hand corner of the grid paper. See below:
Multiplication, Lesson 9-3
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If you look at the blue longs, you can calculate their total: 8 x 10 = 80.
If you look at the red cubes, you can calculate their total: 8 x 4 = 32.
If you look at the red cubes, you can calculate their total: 8 x 4 = 32.
If you add the totals of the blocks together (80 + 32), you find the answer...112!
We recorded our work by coloring in blocks and cubes with blue and red crayons in our math journal on page 211. If you need help, please let me know!
This afternoon, you missed a lot of fun! I'm so sorry you weren't here! The National Park teams started their journey by traveling from Florida using several mysterious clues! Where did they end up after their first part of the journey? You'll have to ask tomorrow when you get here. They did a great job following the directions, highlighting the interstates traveled on, and outlining each of the four states they journeyed through today. We should have time tomorrow to answer the questions about your first stop.
Seatwork included finishing up your Matter Puzzle. I will send home the directions and the puzzle with your brother today.
This afternoon, I assigned reading for the Dahl book. Your group read chapters 27-31 (including chapter 31) and answered the question on the Literature Circle sheet. Remember to develop two FAT questions of your own, too.
We hope you make it back to school tomorrow!
:)Mrs. Neal
Happy New Year!
Today's been a full day! I introduced the newest vocabulary words in Wordly Wise. You can review their meanings below.
Lesson 7
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We also entered five new spelling words into our Spelling Dictionaries:
knew, new, won, wear, where
During math, we first reviewed the multiplication facts. This was prettier before I uploaded it to Slideshare, but perhaps it can still be helpful when practicing your math facts.
The math lesson focused on reading large numbers (into the ten thousands). There is a tutorial here that might help, and you can also use this site or this one for a review. There is a fun game here from Toon University you might enjoy.
I also like the games Guess My Number, Place a Number, and Place a Number II.
After lunch, we shar
ed a few blogs that hadn't been shared yet. We also talked about our next Social Studies project: Explorers. The students named a few famous explorers they remembered such as...
After we discussed why explorers might have been interested in traveling to unknown areas of the world, we watched a video about Christopher Columbus from History's Mysteries. It was a lot of fun!
This afternoon we talked about our Reading Counts goals for the year and calculated how many points everyone would need to earn each month in order to reach those goals. It helped everyone set appropriate goals for January.
At the end of the day we visited the library for a bit of silent reading and discussed the results of our lima bean/plaster experiment from last month. Evidently plants DO have the power to make rock crack and crumble! There will be more about that later, but you can check out some examples of weathering here in the meantime.
Yes! The time has come! We are practicing multiplication. This week, we will be reviewing the threes and moving onto the fours. You can help improve your "multiplication reflexes" by practicing for 5-10 minutes every day. A few of my favorite sites are ones that allow you to focus on a specific set of multiplication problems:
Learn your Tables
Jungle Jim
Car Wash
Math Magician (this one has a timer!)
Interactive Games Galore
If you scroll down this page, you'll find many more, including 'Bonk the Mole' and 'Math Models'!
And of course there are many sites located on the third grade web page as well (including many of the ones I've listed).
The key is to make practice fun and consistent!
