First off, a big thank you to everyone who attended math night! It was super fun and hopefully got everyone excited about math! If you did not attend you missed some important information: math homework will be changing for 3rd grade. Instead of assigning IXL or paper homework, the homework expectations from now until the end of the year will be to practice math facts each school night for 15 minutes. Each student has a log that they are responsible for bringing to and from school everyday. It will be checked daily and if they do not practice or forget their log, they will be going to study hall.
At math night we discuss some different strategies for practicing math facts. Here is a quick overview of what we discussed:
Math Night Information
Time requirements per 50 facts:
- 3rd grade- 2 minutes and 30 seconds
- 4th grade- 2 minutes
- 5th grade- 1 minute and 45 seconds
Ways to practice math facts:
- Using a plastic sleeve and a math fact page, time the facts written with dry erase/vis-a-vis markers. Math fact pages can be found at www.math-drills.com
- Flash cards
- Make two piles, the known pile that is answered within 3 seconds and the unknown pile that takes longer than 3 seconds and practice the unknown pile
- Sandwich- take the unknown pile and the known pile and stack them with 3 knowns and 1 unknown, then three more knowns and 1 unknown.
- Apps
- Math fact master
- Math magician
- IXL math facts (found under third grade)
- Manipulatives
- Dice- roll two dice and multiply them. Or if working on a specific fact, take that number and multiply it by the number rolled on the dice. Writing a list of the facts solved on a whiteboard or paper as they go is a good way to keep track of work!
- Cards- same as dice
- Dominoes- grab a domino and multiply the two sides or two dominoes and multiply together.
I sent a sheet home with students today with what facts they need to work on. Please feel free to follow the pacing guide handed out at math night, or just work on what they need to. The goal is to pass off one test a week. Please email me if you have any questions! We are looking forward to having students fluent in their math facts!
Week of January 29-February 1
Mon-IXL FF.14
Tues-No Homework - Math Night 5:30 pm
Wed-Practice Test, EVENS
Thurs-Practice Math Facts
Week of January 22-25
Mon-Practice Test, Evens
Tues-Practice Math Facts
Wed-E.7
Thurs-FF.10
Week of January 15-18
Mon-No School
Tues-N.9
Wed-N.5
Thurs-Practice Math Facts
Week of January 8-11
Mon-IXL H.1
Tues- IXL Multiplication with a multiple of 10 Worksheet, Back
Wed- IXL Practice Test, Evens
Thurs- IXL Practice Math Facts
Week of December 11-14
Mon-IXL FF.6
Tues- IXL FF.7
Wed- IXL FF.8
Thurs- IXL FF.9
Week of November 27-30
Mon- After today's review, choose an IXL assignment that will benefit you in tomorrow's test!
Tues- Practice Math Facts- Trimester 1 is ending!
Wed- IXL M.5
Thurs- IXL G.17
Week of November 13-16
Mon- IXL I.2
Tues- IXL I.4
Wed- Division Test Practice, evens
Thurs- Practice Math Facts
Week of November 6 - 9
Mon- IXL E.2
Tues- IXL H.6
Wed- Test Practice, evens
Thurs- Practice Math Facts
Week of October 30 - November 2
Mon- Partial Difference Subtraction WS #2, back
Tues- NO HOMEWORK- Halloween
Wed- Add/Sub Test Practice- evens
Thurs- Practice Math Facts
Week of October 23 - 26
All of the homework this week is worksheets. They are made specifically to prepare the children to use the Partial Difference Method of subtraction. Please support your student with these tricky concepts and allow them to teach you something new!
Mon- Subtracting Into Negative WS, back
Tues- More Subtracting Into Negatives & Combinations to 10 WS, back
Wed- Subtracting into Negatives with Combinations to 10 WS, back
Thurs- Partial Difference Subtraction WS, back
Week of October 16 - 19
Mon-Quiz Today - Practice Math Facts
Tues- Partial Sum WS, back
Wed- IXL C.1 (5 problems written on paper)
Thurs- IXL C.1 (5 problems written on paper)
Week of October 9 - 12
Mon- IXL B.7 (Review concepts)
Tues- IXL B.8 (Review concepts)
Wed- IXL B.5
Thurs- IXL B.9
Week of October 2 - 5
Mon- IXL P.1
Tues- IXL P.2
Wed- Test Practice 3.NBT.1, evens
Thurs- Test Today - Practice Math Facts
Week of September 25-28
Mon- IXL A.9
Tues- IXL B.11
Wed- Rounding to the nearest ten worksheet, back side
Thurs- Rounding to the nearest hundred worksheet, back side
Week of September 18-21
Mon- IXL A.3
Tues- IXL B.1
Wed- IXL B.4
Thurs- IXL B.2
Week of September 11-14
Mon- IXL U.6
Tues- IXL U.11
Wed- 3.MD.3 Test Review Sheet, even numbers
Thurs- No Homework - Test Today
Week of September 5-7
Mon- NO SCHOOL
Tues- None
Wed- None
Thurs- None
