My little darlings, make sure you don't forget to act it ouT!!! So important!
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This time of year, it's all about the practice and remembering what we have already learned. There is so much! So, here are some upated links to some of our favorite FREE game sites! Don't forget, you can always click on an older entry and find games that way as well!
Thanks, Mrs. Froehling elapsed time! or, as I like to call it, 'are we there yet?". (get it, It's a parent joke...)3/26/2017 Lucky for us, here in Texas, in 3rd grade, we rarely have to actually understand time across multiple hours, so we get to start out understanding time within 1 hour. For example: my cake went into the oven at 3:05. It takes 45 minutes to bake. What time will it be when it is done? See? We learn this by introducing the number line within an hour. Then we show with a story problem like the one above, how to make our measurement make sense. Later we will introduce Mountains on the numberline to represent hours. The rounded ones above represent 10 minute increments. The little bitty ones are one minute increments.
Using this number line, we can add or subtract time! I really wish I had learned time this way... Thanks, Mrs. Froehling We are starting our last new unit, and it's measurement! The crazy thing is, we are not actually doing a whole lot of measuring. Well, we will do some, but not get crazy with it, like measuring things the way we did in first and in second grades. The third grade version is more about the understanding of measurement. Big surprise, I know. So, how does that look? It's a lot of missing parts/pieces, such as this question from the 2016 released STAAR test. It's also about finding areas with irregular shapes The second one shows how we can label it and split it to help us solve it.
This takes practice!!! So, make up some, or find something to find the area for, like your sidewalk, or patio, or brick face on part of your house! Thanks, Mrs. Froehling It was a tough 2 days! Not because of the Benchmark tests themselves, but because it was our first time to test this way!!! The end of the day waiting is enough to make you want to run around in circles, yelling at the top of your lungs!
We made it though, and we have some great information to help us get going on the rest of the year! Goal 1: To be CAREFUL when we work! Goal 2: To USE our strategies! Goal 3: To make sure our answers make sense! Did you notice that none of these goals are strictly math goals? It is because we mostly rocked the math itself, but these LIFE goals need the work! Want some math to work on, though? MULTIPLICATION facts! Those are our weakest areas right now and we need the practice, outside of school time! Here's link to some more ways to learn those facts! Here in 3rd grade in Texas, equivalent fractions cover a few different things: Fractions with denominators of 2,3,4,6,8 Those fractions are represented with pictorial models, number lines, and objects. Congruent areas are important when comparing fractions. Here's a great explanation of how we introduce them! So, if you are like me and are a Fraction Phobic, this will really help!
Thanks, Mrs. Froehling RElated Facts or Fact Families: 3rd grade styleWe are getting deeper and deeper into our math facts, and some of us still have some trouble understanding that multiplication and division are two sides of the same cookie! So here's a video to help! Sounds scary, doesn't it? This is actually pretty basic stuff, and in the true style of the education gurus at the state level, we make it sound terrifying!!! What we are working on is taking an irregular shape, like this: Then we are going to split it into two parts or more, depending on the shape. Like this: Now, our next step is to find the two different areas. Like this: See how we labeled the different areas? All we have to do now is count and label (already done) then write it out so that the solution is understood by anyone who reads it.
7 x 4 = 28. That is the larger area. 2 x 4 =8 is the smaller area. Now I have to put them together, just like the picture is. 28 + 8= 36 units. 36 Units is our answer. This is the introduction. Later on, in Geometry we will get a little trickier. Right now, you may catch your darling counting squares instead of using operations. This is not always dependable, especially when we see much bigger areas, or they are not marked in clear units! Thanks! Mrs. Froehling Here in 3rd grade, we expand our understanding of algebra (the understanding we started in 1st grade!) by bringing in "In and Out Charts". These charts are basically showing algebraic relationships. This is the type we start with- a basic addition/subtraction chart. Did you figure out the relationship? Yes, it's subtract 4. Then we move up to these: multiply or divide. What's the rule this time? You got it, multiply by 5. You may be thinking, OK, this is not too bad. Really, it's not. But 3rd graders get caught up in the "hey, I think I know this, so I will just rush on through" and that is where we get in trouble! Click on the button for a link to some practice games! Thanks! Mrs. Froehling
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AuthorHi, I'm Cheri Froehling, one of the learners in our class! I am also known as the Teacher, but in our class, all of us are learners AND teachers. We are rocking 3rd Grade! Archives
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