Sorry for the lateness of this post. Sunday ended up being my Family Day holiday.
This week, we will continue with the concept of multiplication focusing more on how useful multiplication is as a computation strategy. Therefore we will be looking at some simple, real-world problems and word problems that involve multiplication.
Last week, we introduced the following timestables: 0, 1, 2, 10, and 5. Since we were not at school on Wednesday, the 5 times ended up being introduced on Friday by a substitute teacher who was covering for me. I will check in with students on Tuesday to find out what they understood.
Last week, I also introduced the multiplication table to the class and students shaded in the rows and columns of facts that they've already learned. We reviewed how to use a multiplication table to find a fact that they are looking for. Though the goal is to have students understand how they can figure out products (answers to multiplication questions) on their own, it is still very helpful to know how to use a multiplication table. The table is also useful for helping students recognize patterns and relationships between the products of different factors (numbers that are multiplied together).
This week, we will review the 0, 1, 2, 10, and 5 times, and add the 11 times and 9 times.
In addition to working with our multiplication facts, report card time is fast approaching so I will be doing some assessment with students to see how well they understand the various concepts we have worked with since the last reporting period. These concepts include place value, addition, subtraction, and measurement with centimetres.
I will create a review document for students to work on for homework this week. If you haven't had a chance to give your child any practice with the concepts we've been working on then this will give them a good review. Please don't panic though if your child is stuck on some things. I do try to circle back to review concepts as we go, but sometimes it seems that if they don't use something (or aren't thinking about something) on a regular basis, they lose it. That's why giving them a few questions here and there at home is really helpful. They can be addition/subtraction or multiplication facts that you put up around the house or in their lunch box; involving them in discussions about estimating costs and totals; skip counting with coins (or bills!); counting the number of carrots in a bag and figuring out how many carrots would be 5 bags (that's multiplication!).
There are lots of multiplication games online that give students good practice with their facts. There are a number of games at Multiplication.com and the rally game, linked below, is one of them. The games on this site allow you to choose more than one timestable to work on in one game. So, students could choose all of the tables that we worked on last week and will introduce this week.
Multiplication Rally Game
There are lots of other multiplication games on sites such as Mathplayground.com, abcya.com, and fun4thebrain.com. Some may require apps that you will need to download and some games may take a bit to download (or maybe my 9 year old computer is slow!).
Have a great week everyone.
This week, we will continue with the concept of multiplication focusing more on how useful multiplication is as a computation strategy. Therefore we will be looking at some simple, real-world problems and word problems that involve multiplication.
Last week, we introduced the following timestables: 0, 1, 2, 10, and 5. Since we were not at school on Wednesday, the 5 times ended up being introduced on Friday by a substitute teacher who was covering for me. I will check in with students on Tuesday to find out what they understood.
Last week, I also introduced the multiplication table to the class and students shaded in the rows and columns of facts that they've already learned. We reviewed how to use a multiplication table to find a fact that they are looking for. Though the goal is to have students understand how they can figure out products (answers to multiplication questions) on their own, it is still very helpful to know how to use a multiplication table. The table is also useful for helping students recognize patterns and relationships between the products of different factors (numbers that are multiplied together).
This week, we will review the 0, 1, 2, 10, and 5 times, and add the 11 times and 9 times.
In addition to working with our multiplication facts, report card time is fast approaching so I will be doing some assessment with students to see how well they understand the various concepts we have worked with since the last reporting period. These concepts include place value, addition, subtraction, and measurement with centimetres.
I will create a review document for students to work on for homework this week. If you haven't had a chance to give your child any practice with the concepts we've been working on then this will give them a good review. Please don't panic though if your child is stuck on some things. I do try to circle back to review concepts as we go, but sometimes it seems that if they don't use something (or aren't thinking about something) on a regular basis, they lose it. That's why giving them a few questions here and there at home is really helpful. They can be addition/subtraction or multiplication facts that you put up around the house or in their lunch box; involving them in discussions about estimating costs and totals; skip counting with coins (or bills!); counting the number of carrots in a bag and figuring out how many carrots would be 5 bags (that's multiplication!).
There are lots of multiplication games online that give students good practice with their facts. There are a number of games at Multiplication.com and the rally game, linked below, is one of them. The games on this site allow you to choose more than one timestable to work on in one game. So, students could choose all of the tables that we worked on last week and will introduce this week.
Multiplication Rally Game
There are lots of other multiplication games on sites such as Mathplayground.com, abcya.com, and fun4thebrain.com. Some may require apps that you will need to download and some games may take a bit to download (or maybe my 9 year old computer is slow!).
Have a great week everyone.
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