Incoming Third Grade
Click for Mad Minutes (fact practice in 3rd)
Helpful materials to have accessible: Analog clock, centimeter/inch ruler
Real world topics to discus:
Games: Card and board games! Acing Math (Games to play with a standard deck of cards), (Go Fish, Old Maid, Crazy Eights, Top-It (war), dominoes, Connect Four, Uno, Sorry, Mouse Trap, Set, Tangrams, Tetris, Rush Hour)
Websites and Games: They are divided into grade levels.
Apps:
Articles:
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/create-a-noticing-wall-for-your-kid-1834930062
Real world topics to discus:
- Time to the hour and half hour; quantifying time in conversation for example "We are leaving in five minutes." "We went to the zoo last week." "We got our dog three years ago." Using a calendar to track time.
- Money: counting money (coins and bills together), observing how money is written on receipts, comparing prices at different stores
- Cooking
- Temperature
- Woodworking/Shop
- Shapes (two and three dimensional)
- Sharing things equally
Games: Card and board games! Acing Math (Games to play with a standard deck of cards), (Go Fish, Old Maid, Crazy Eights, Top-It (war), dominoes, Connect Four, Uno, Sorry, Mouse Trap, Set, Tangrams, Tetris, Rush Hour)
Websites and Games: They are divided into grade levels.
- Gregtangmath.com
- illuminations.nctm.org
- iXL
- Khan Academy (leveled practice by concept)
- Arithmetic Four - two player game to practice facts
- Free Rice
- Mathgametime.com
- Thinking Blocks
- ABCya
- Xtramath
- Arcademic Skillbuilders
Apps:
- Number Pieces Basic
- The Math Learning Center
- Motion Math Zoom
- The Subitize Tree
- Mathtopia +
Articles:
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/create-a-noticing-wall-for-your-kid-1834930062
