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
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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! |
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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