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Thursday, April 11, 2013

10 Frame Fill App By Classroom Focused Software


Description

"10 Frame Fill" provides children practice with recognizing additive "10 Families" (e.g., 1 and 9, 2 and 8, etc.). Set the 10 Frame to fill in sequence or randomly. Use contrasting color chips to fill the 10 frame as you determine the answer. 

Take a Ride on Multiplication Drive!  To learn about multiplication students practice skip counting to learn about the multiples of different numbers.  Students created their own "House of Three" or whichever number they choose to explore and design a home which has twelve windows.  On the front of each window there is a factor and behind each window is the product of that factor and the number of the house.  So if it's the house of three, behind window number five is the product fifteen.  Students can create an entire street of homes to practice their facts.  We posted our multiplication homes outside of the classroom and students enjoyed interacting with  them as they traveled down multiplication drive!

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Quick Teens Fact Flowers

Integrating the Quick Teens into our Fun Friday Centers was accomplished by making flowers for spring. To bring our math focus into the art of it, we decided to make flowers representing the "Quick Teens" (adding ten to a single digit number). The ten was represented by the handprints of both hands (ten fingers for the leaves of the flower). The children added a stem. The flower base was a circle. The single digit addend was represented by the petal on the flower. For example: if a child had the number 14, the equation is 10 + 4 = 14. The leaves have the ten fingers and the flower has four petals.





Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Quick Teens Fact Fluency with C-Rods

1. Use an orange rod and add another color rod to it. What's the sum?
2. Repeat with each color rod to find the sum.
3. Record your results (O + R = 12).

These sums are the teen numbers.

C-Rods Make a 10

1. Use an orange rod to make the sums of 10 using only 2 rods.
2. How many combinations can you make?
3. What are they? Draw them.
4. Write the equations. (9 + 1 = 10).

1 Less BINGO

1. Child rolls the die.
2. Subtract 1 from the number rolled.
3. Cover the box that matches your subtracted number.
4. To win, 4 across, down, or diagonally.

Gummi Bear Division


Division is all about sharing equally.  Students love to act out division using sweet treats!  In this lesson, third graders were developing their knowledge of division concepts.  They used math vocabulary: dividend, divisor and quotient as they divided the gummi bears equally amongst their classmates.  They used white boards to write the division equations and to show how they solved their division problems.  They were drawing out the models of division as equal groups and were using repeated subtraction to to find the quotients.  Still others used their knowledge of the related multiplication facts.  It was a yummy way to explore division concepts!