Thank you to all of those parents who came for parent-teacher interviews. I saw many of you and it was great to touch base about how your child is getting along with the math concepts and skills we have been working on.
This week we will continue with multiplication. I may be able to touch on division on Monday or Tuesday, but I will be out on Wednesday and Thursday, so we will not get very far with it. There is an assembly scheduled for Friday afternoon, part of which 3A students will be leading. The wrap-up to French week will be combined with that assembly and there will be French bingo as well that afternoon, so I am not sure how much math we will be able to do on Friday afternoon!
I will not be sending home a homework sheet this week. Please just practice multiplication facts. It is fine for your child to have a multiplication table to peek at while working on these. There is not an expectation in Grade 3 that students have the facts memorized, but the more they know the better off they will be when they move to Grade 4.
Other skills to continue practicing:
Skip counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100. That's a lot! Practicing with coins is a great way to practice counting by 2, 5, 10, and 25.
Addition facts and subtraction facts to 18 (or 20) will be invaluable to them for life, so please don't forget to keep working on those.
And, any simple, real-life addition, subtraction, and multiplication word problems you can make up for your child or have them make up would be really good practice.
Examples:
A recipe calls for 5 cups of chopped broccoli. You've already chopped 3 cups of broccoli. How many more cups do you need?
The dog gets fed 1 cup of food twice a day. How many cups does he get in one day? How many cups does he eat in a week?
An Echo Dot costs about $60 on Amazon. You've already saved $25. How much more will you need to be able to buy it?
Remember that multiplication is repeated addition. A problem that we automatically see as a multiplication problem might be solved by your child using repeated addition. This is perfectly okay and shows that they understand the concept.
Have a wonderful March Break!
This week we will continue with multiplication. I may be able to touch on division on Monday or Tuesday, but I will be out on Wednesday and Thursday, so we will not get very far with it. There is an assembly scheduled for Friday afternoon, part of which 3A students will be leading. The wrap-up to French week will be combined with that assembly and there will be French bingo as well that afternoon, so I am not sure how much math we will be able to do on Friday afternoon!
I will not be sending home a homework sheet this week. Please just practice multiplication facts. It is fine for your child to have a multiplication table to peek at while working on these. There is not an expectation in Grade 3 that students have the facts memorized, but the more they know the better off they will be when they move to Grade 4.
Other skills to continue practicing:
Skip counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100. That's a lot! Practicing with coins is a great way to practice counting by 2, 5, 10, and 25.
Addition facts and subtraction facts to 18 (or 20) will be invaluable to them for life, so please don't forget to keep working on those.
And, any simple, real-life addition, subtraction, and multiplication word problems you can make up for your child or have them make up would be really good practice.
Examples:
A recipe calls for 5 cups of chopped broccoli. You've already chopped 3 cups of broccoli. How many more cups do you need?
The dog gets fed 1 cup of food twice a day. How many cups does he get in one day? How many cups does he eat in a week?
An Echo Dot costs about $60 on Amazon. You've already saved $25. How much more will you need to be able to buy it?
Remember that multiplication is repeated addition. A problem that we automatically see as a multiplication problem might be solved by your child using repeated addition. This is perfectly okay and shows that they understand the concept.
Have a wonderful March Break!
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