Brain Snacks

We began our first week in school by focusing on math thinking activities that we call Brain Snacks. Students come into the classroom each day to a math problem on the board. They work on the problem by themselves in their notebooks and then we discuss the problem as a class. During our discussions, we get to know what our different strategies are. The discussions this week helped us to build our first criteria chart on Representing Numbers. Take a look at what we know so far about representing numbers!

Additionally, we have been playing number games and challenges to build on our knowledge from Grade 2. Ask your child how to represent a number. We are working on 2-digit numbers and will soon work towards 3-digit numbers. We will also be looking at Place Value and Skip Counting soon. Please review with your child how to identify the value or place of a digit in a number. Here is a game that we will play next week to get started: http://www.abcya.com/base_ten_fun.htm

Measurement

Our current focus in math is on Measurement. We have already explored measuring in centimeters (CM) and meters (M). Students are measuring different objects and deciding what the best unit for measurement should be.

We are now moving to recall how to estimate, measure and record the perimeter of a shape or an object. Students are playing games and practicing how to measure the perimeter of various shapes. Ask your child what they have learned about measuring using a CM ruler so far.

To begin our math lessons this week, we looked at some images and wondered what math we see. Students are discovering so much math in simple images. It is pretty amazing to see what our class has discovered so far. Have a look at some of our math discussions!