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Math Minutes:   1-20    21-40 ​  (from 2nd)
Click for Mad Minutes   (fact practice in 3rd)
Helpful materials to have accessible:  Analog clock, centimeter/inch ruler

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
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Elmwood Franklin School
104 New Amsterdam Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216
(716) 877-5035
www.elmwoodfranklin.org