Math brochures for your guided math groups! Math Tri-Folds are my go-to resource when it comes to guided math groups. Here’s why: Fill out the form below and you’ll receive an email with 18 FREE math tri-folds! Shop Grades 1-6 “These are PERFECT for what my admin is looking for!! I love that I can truly […]
These real life math activities are a great way to engage 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students in financial literacy and project based learning.
This multiplication and division freebie for 3rd-grade offers teachers an engaging solution to every standard. Grab the freebie now and see!
What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite food? Favorite movie? Favorite sport? Is this how your typical graphing unit goes? Mine too! Until this year, my students were always graphing the same boring answers to the same types of boring questions. This year I decided to make our graphing activities more meaningful. I wanted to […]
8 tips for teaching area and perimeter lessons to help you guide your students toward deeper area and perimeter understanding and mastery.
The best way to make learning place value fun for students? Turn it into a game, of course! From first through third grade, it’s the time to get down
Measurement activities build kids' understanding by exploring weight, length, capacity, and area in hands-on ways using rulers and non-standard units.
In this blog post I will go over the third grade common core math standards 3.MD.5 – 3.MD.6 and provide you with activities you can use with your students. Measurement & Data // 3.MD.5 & 3.MD.6 I understand that the area of a plane shape can be measured in square units. I can measure area […]
Differentiating instruction is essential for all students. Check out these three easy differentiated examples that you can use in your own classroom!
Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.
Discover the perfect way to elevate your 3rd grade math lessons with the Mindful Math Curriculum! Dive into a comprehensive program that covers every aspect of third grade math, offering engaging lessons, hands-on activities, and teaching resources. From using math centers, math journals, number talks, assessments, and manipulatives, this guide has you covered. Plus, it's aligned with Common Core standards and Canadian standards. Grab the FREE addition and subtraction activities!
Teaching area is engaging and authentic with this hands-on applied math activity! Students arrange furniture to find the area and perimeter of their house.
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Finally! Math centers that are aligned to the standards, easy to manage, and perfect for 15-20 minute rotations! Exactly what I needed for when I’m working with my small groups. I can focus on my [group] knowing that my students are fully engaged. I don’t have time to prep math activities so this is the […]
Teaching 3rd Grade Math? Learn the different topics covered in 3rd grade and how you can use this 3rd grade math curriculum to keep your small groups running well this year. Also great option for 3rd grade homeschooling!
Setting up a fact fluency program in a classroom can be daunting- where do I store it all? How do I keep track? How do I determine if students are successful? What do I do if they aren't making progress? I have set up and run a fact fluency program in my classroom for a few years now, and while I was overwhelmed at first, I found that it's not as hard as you think to help students become fluent in math! It just takes 4 simple steps to get your fact fluency program up and running. Get Organized: I find that everything goes so much more smoothly if I am organized before I begin anything, and that's especially important when running a fact fluency program. Having assessments ready, keeping track of student data... it can be really overwhelming. I personally use a two part system for keeping myself organized, and I find that it really works. First, I printed out all of the testing originals for both addition and subtraction. I like having the originals all in one place because then I don't have to find the file on my computer, print out the page I need, run down to the copy room to make copies... I just grab my binder when I need more copies and take it to the copy room, make all the copies I need, and put the originals back in the sleeve when I'm finished! I hate trying to find things on my slow computer, so this works for me. I used to keep the student assessments in the binder as well, but I found that having all those extra pages in there was a little less organized than I would like it to be. So I decided to use hanging file folders in a crate to organize assessments. And since I really love it when things are color coded, particularly in color order, I created tabs that matched the color of each level. Inside the files for each level are the different assessments, the flash cards for that level, and copies of the reward certificate ready to go. When a student passes a level, I can easily grab the next set of flash cards and the reward certificate, staple them to their completed assessment, and send it home! It is also really easy to see how many more copies I may need of a particular assessment, and it's easy to slide them down in there once I've copied them. It is also important for you to determine what fluency looks like in your classroom. How long do they have to complete the assessment? Do they need to get them all correct? How many problems do they need to do- 25 or 15? 3 seconds per problem is considered "fluency" based on what I've heard. I give my students the 25 problem sheet. If a student does not complete 2-3 problems but gets the rest correct, I usually consider that "fluent" since it's above 80% mastery and let them move on. However, if the student is making computation mistakes, I don't. Of course, you will have to choose what works in your classroom! Practice, practice, practice! An important part of fact fluency is giving your students time to practice! I always begin our program with a letter to parents letting them know that we are going to be using the program this year. Attached to the letter is a copy of the 0s facts for them to practice with their child. I usually give them a few days or so to practice their facts at home and in the classroom before we do the first assessment. In the classroom, I like to integrate our fact fluency practice into our Fast Finisher activities, as well as math centers when appropriate. Several of our Fast Finisher activities involve some sort of fact practice. Flash cards: We began with the option of flash cards first- they are easy and since mine are color coded, the kids could just grab the color that matches the level they are working on. Fact Fluency Flip Books: A second option for my students are Fact Fluency Flip books. These are little books that students can grab and work on. Each book contains 8 pages with 11 different activities for practicing facts. For example, there is a page of number bonds, a page of number lines, etc... These are probably best for saving to use after you've taught addition strategies. I have 4 different books for each level, so students can grab a different book each time they use one. Games: I use lots of addition and subtraction games with my students that help to build fluency. Most of these games are simple as well! Games like Bump or Roll and Cover give students fluency practice while making it fun. War is another fun game, where students choose two cards, add the numbers together, and decide who has the higher sum. Other games where students are practicing adding together or subtracting two numbers are perfect for increasing fluency and providing students with practice! Boom Cards: My students LOVE Boom Cards, and if you haven't checked them out, you should! There are a ton of both free and paid options available both on the Boom website and Teachers Pay Teachers. Hot Dots: Hot Dots are something my students love to use. Power Pens are another similar option and the pens can be used interchangeably with the different card sets. I got mine through Donors Choose, so if this is something your school allows, it's definitely an engaging option to check out! There are addition and subtraction and Power Pens addition and subtraction sets that you can purchase. There are also Power Pen stickers that you can purchase to create your own. I find that having lots of choices increases student engagement and keeps them from getting bored using just one method to practice their facts. If they're tired of Boom Cards, they can use Hot Dots that day. Track Progress Of course, tracking your students progress is important to continuing to increase fluency! There are so many ways to track student progress. You can do a whole class board where students move their name to the level they are on, or write their name on each level once they've passed it. Or you can choose to make it a bit more private. Or you can choose not to track at all! In my Growing Fact Fluency pack, I've included tracking sheets for the teacher to use, as well as fun tracking sheets that the students can use to track their own progress. I also have included sticker charts, reward tags, and certificates to both track and celebrate student progress! Tracking also helps alert you to any difficulties a student may be having. When I realized that two of my students were really struggling with making it past their 1s facts, I knew that I needed to work with them and give them more opportunities to increase their fluency. I downloaded Boom Card games that just practiced adding one. One student was not actually adding one and did not understand the concept, so I taught a small group lesson on how adding one is just counting up one more. I have also included options for differentiating, so struggling students can be given the page with only 15 problems while everybody else has 25. By keeping track of their progress, I was able to identify those difficulties and work on those particular skills. Reap the Rewards I am not usually one for extrinsic rewards, and generally my Fact Fluency program operates in that same manner. For most students, knowing they've passed that level and are moving on to the next level is enough for them to be motivated. That being said, I do think it's very important to acknowledge their progress. I send home a certificate with the students once they've passed a level. If possible, I send it home that day. Attached to that certificate is the next set of fluency flashcards to begin working on. I also move their clip to the next level on our bulletin board so they can see their progress. They also get to move to the next set of Fact Fluency Flip Books, which they seem to find exciting. You can choose to do any sort of rewards you want to do with this program, and that's one thing I love about it. I've used this program different ways with different classes. I have options for different ways to track and reward, including sticker charts and reward tags, along with the certificates. Also, you can take the pressure off your students and not worry about levels, or tracking, or time, and just have fun with learning facts! Play the games, randomly use the fact fluency assessments for fun, or don't. All that matters is that your students become more fluent with their math facts and use them to become better and faster at math in general. How you choose to approach that is up to you and what works best for your students.
Third grade cut and paste math activities for almost every Common Core math standard. These activities add a little bit of fun back into third grade math.
In this blog post I will go over the third grade common core math standards 3.MD.5 – 3.MD.6 and provide you with activities you can use with your students. Measurement & Data // 3.MD.5 & 3.MD.6 I understand that the area of a plane shape can be measured in square units. I can measure area […]
Today I wanted to see how well my students were internalizing our perimeter and area explorations, so I gave them a cooperative task to complete. The timing was perfect as I was missing 5 students for early spring break starters–so it seemed like a great plan for a Friday before break! Area and Perimeter Problem […]
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These 3rd grade Florida BEST math choice boards are designed to keep students engaged as they review the standards creatively.
Teaching area is engaging and authentic with this hands-on applied math activity! Students arrange furniture to find the area and perimeter of their house.
The 3rd grade Common Core standards are pushing us to reach a deeper understanding of many topics. For example, area is covered in much more depth than our previous state standards specified. I've always done a "Dream House" project to help students learn area concepts, and this year I've adapted it to address the following standard: CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7d Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems. I started this project today and the students are o-b-s-e-s-s-e-d. It was so funny to watch as an idea for a room caught on throughout the class - by the end of class 22/29 of their dream houses included a "Trampoline Room". Haha. Kids are awesome. I'll show you the directions here, along with a picture of each step. At the bottom of the post you can find a link to download the project free at my Teachers Pay Teachers store. 1. Outline your dream house by drawing the outside walls. your dream house should be a compound figure with all right angles. 2. Partition your dream house into rooms. Each room must be a rectangle. As an extension, try making copies of your own outline and see how many different ways students can come up with to partition the same compound figure into rectangles! 3. Label and color each room. But, Ms. Turner, where do you sleep? Why, on a raft in the indoor pool, dahling! 4. Find and record the area of each room. My students used a full page of lined paper to do this, and then recorded their final answers in the space provided on the project page. 5. Add the area of all of your rooms to find the total area of your dream house. Later this week, (assuming the snow ever stops here in Massachusetts and we eventually get to return to school), they'll mount both pages on a big piece of construction paper and we'll display them out in the hallway. It makes for a fun bulletin board! I love this project because the kids LOVE it, and they are using math skills the whole time. I don't like to do a lot of fluffy projects, so this is great because even during the designing phase they are fully engaged in mathematical thinking. If you want to download a copy of the project pages, click here to grab it for free from my Teachers Pay Teachers store! Stay connected! Teachers Pay Teachers Store Facebook Teachers Notebook
These hands-on elapsed time math centers are an engaging way to teach and reinforce telling time with your 3rd grade students.
Finally! Math centers that are aligned to the standards, easy to manage, and perfect for 15-20 minute rotations! Exactly what I needed for when I’m working with my small groups. I can focus on my [group] knowing that my students are fully engaged. I don’t have time to prep math activities so this is the […]
My Daily Math Review has been one of the most effective resources in helping my students to practice and retain all of our math standards throughout the year. About 5 years ago our district implemented what we call "Balanced Math" guided primarily by the book 5 Steps to a Balanced Math Program by Larry Ainsworth and Jan Christenson. One of the steps is a Daily Math Review process. I would have to say that this has routine has probably had the biggest impact on my math instruction by far. I love the fact that I am able to review math skills throughout the year, and that my students who struggle get repeated exposure to the material and can actually learn and retain it! What is most different about this spiral review than other ones I have seen or purchased in the past is that it is entirely student driven, and is true review of what they have learned rather than a mish-mash of skills that you may or may not have taught yet. The authors recommend that you give the students 5 types of math problems each day of the week. The problems should be the same type for the whole week. Each day they practice place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, measurement and data, and geometry. At the end of the week, the students take a quiz with 2 problems of each of the types of problems they have been studying all week. If 85% of the students pass a particular section, you move on. However, if less than 85% master the material, it stays on the Math Review for the next week. You can see from the picture below a few areas that my students needed extra practice with a few weeks ago. If a few students struggle with a concept, you simply pull them for small group instruction. The Process: Independent Work: When we start our math block, my students spend about 10 minutes independently completing their math review sheets for the day. I circulate the room providing individual or small group instruction as needed. Processing and Correcting: After the students have had some time to work independently, we come together as a class to review and correct them. Sometimes I have students share their strategies, and other times I provide instruction. I almost always add to the work by stretching their thinking. For example, we might round and estimate to see if our answer is reasonable. The Product: When I first stared using the Daily Math Review process in my class five years ago, the hardest part for me was the time involved in preparing the questions and finding questions to ask. Well, luckily for you, I have put together a package to make your life easier if you would like to try Daily Math Review in your class! This set comes complete with full instructions for implementing the program in your classroom. It also includes fully editable sets of papers so that you can change the problems to suit the needs of your students. How many times have you used a set of spiral review that features skills that you haven't introduced yet? How many times have you wanted to change a problem? Now you can! But... I also know that us teachers can be incredibly busy and may not have time to create problems for their students. So... I have included 36 weeks of ready to go math review and assessments for you to use as is. I have based the problems on areas where my students have struggled in the past. PLUS - these pages are completely editable! You can download the preview which features two free weeks to see if the program will work for you. I have several grade levels available: Kindergarten Daily Math Review 1st Grade Daily Math Review 2nd Grade Daily Math Review 3rd Grade Daily Math Review 4th Grade Daily Math Review 5th Grade Daily Math Review 6th Grade Daily Math Review I also now have a Language Arts Version of this product! 4th Grade Daily Language Arts Review
Are you looking for fun activities to help your 3rd graders learn about life cycles, inherited traits, and survival? Check out the hands-on activities in this blog post that bring these hard concepts to life in a kid-friendly way.
NO-PREP, 3rd Grade Math Enrichment Projects and Challenges - Early Finisher Activities Do you want your math enrichment plans done for the YEAR?! These third grade math menus are perfect for early finishers and students who need a challenge. These activities are meaningful, challenging and engaging - your students will love these math choice boards! Students who have shown mastery of third grade math standards can be given the chance to explore these concepts in a deeper and meaningful way with this set of choice boards or math menus! These activities are the perfect challenge for your fast finishers, gifted, and high flying students. These math menus can be used as a tic-tac-toe board, and each one is full of 9 highly engaging and cross-curricular enrichment activities. A variety of activities are included - hands-on, writing, drawing, and so much more! To help make this a completely independent option for your students, there are printables included to accompany most activities. This provides more structure and guidance so that your small groups aren't being interrupted with questions! Just print them as a pack at the beginning of your math unit, and give them to students to work on when they finish their center work. These are also great for math enrichment or gifted groups. ⭐ WANT TO GIVE IT A TRY? Check out a FREE generic math choice board here! This bundle contains ALL of the math menus for third grade units: ⭐Addition & Subtraction ⭐Rounding ⭐Multiplication & Division ⭐Measurement ⭐Geometry ⭐Fractions ⭐Elapsed Time ⭐Area & Perimeter ⭐Data & Graphing More Math Menus: • 1st Grade Math Menus • 2nd Grade Math Menus • 3rd Grade Math Menus
Third grade cut and paste math activities for almost every Common Core math standard. These activities add a little bit of fun back into third grade math.
Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.
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