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Better Lesson: Testing Trail Mix
Create a snack for testing week while practicing division and multiplication.
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Better Lesson: What Angles Are on a Bat House?
Third graders are preparing to build bat houses. They have calculated surface area, identified nail placement, and will now collect data on angle types in this real-world activity.
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Better Lesson: Associative Property With Manipulatives
Children need to understand why the mathematical properties work and how they are applied. In this lesson plan, we explore modeling and "proving" the associative property. In this lesson plan, we explore modeling and "proving" the...
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Better Lesson: Target Number Game
Playing a game for the order of operations engages students in math fact review and builds fluency.
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Better Lesson: Time Pictures
This instructional activity provides an opportunity for visual learns to think about segments of time during the school day.
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Better Lesson: Word Problems With Order of Operations (Day 1 & 2)
Writing word problems reinforces understanding of the order of operations.
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Better Lesson: Multiplication Facts With Arrays
Third graders are expected to fluently multiply and divide within 100. This allows students to practice their math facts and then check their work using area models.
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Better Lesson: Understanding Multiplication With Equal Groups
Third graders develop their understanding of multiplication by grouping objects into equal groups to model the factors and products.
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Better Lesson: Using the Multiplication and Division Relationship to Solve
Third graders can solve multiplication and division problems quickly by recognizing the relationship between the two operations.
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Better Lesson: The Multiplication and Division Connection
Third graders can solve multiplication and division problems quickly by recognizing the relationship between the two operations.
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Better Lesson: Designing a Restaurant
Understanding area and perimeter can help children work on solutions to very important, real world problems.
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Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)
In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.
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Better Lesson: Associative Property
Children need to understand why the mathematical properties work and how they are applied. In this lesson, we explore modeling and "proving" the associative property.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Using a Frequency Table
Multiple graphs can represent the same data set and make the information easier to understand.
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Better Lesson: More Than Two Numbers
The big idea of this lesson is that three (or more) numbers can be grouped together and added. The order of this grouping doesn't matter.
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Better Lesson: Using Class Data
Second graders have greater engagement in learning when it is organized around gathering and using meaningful data.
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Better Lesson: Hundreds, Tens, Ones Are Coins Too
Second graders will extend their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones using dollars, dimes and pennies as another way to express groups of 100, 10 and 1.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Hundreds
The Common Core standard is that students understand that the numbers 100, 200, etc. represent so many groups of 100.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Tens
Grouping by tens reinforces the understanding of place value
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Better Lesson: Jumping Into Math, Measurement, & Data Day 1
Third graders apply measurement, graphing, and data skills to the real world context of physical education with standing jumps.
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Better Lesson: Polygons Explore the Possibilities
Online drawing programs allow students to explore many possibilities with polygons!
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Better Lesson: Measuring With Quarter Inches
Third graders build measuring skills using quarter inch measurements.
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Better Lesson: Perimeter Measuring Around
This lesson focuses on the addition measurement of perimeter using real world examples.
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Better Lesson: Design a Space Using Area Models Day 1 and Day 2
Third graders use area models to find the total area of a store, home, or other real world space.