Author: School District 8

SRS Math Blitz
Edition #1

Speedy Threes: Practicing adding three single digits. All you need is 2 players and a deck of cards (remove tens and face cards).
Instructions: Make 3 piles of cards, face down. The first player turns over the top card from each pile and adds the numbers together as quickly as they can. If they are correct, they keep all three cards. If they are not, the second player can try to add them together to see if they can get the correct answer. Alternate turns and keep going until you have used all of the cards.

Reason, Problem-Solve, Communicate
All mathematics curricula in the NB public school system require students to reason, problem-solve and communicate. These skills are taught, practiced and reinforced daily in math classes and in cross-curricular learning.
There are ways that parents can assist. Making math come to life with saving money, counting money, determining cost of items, figuring change that would be received from a purchase, and discussing this process with kids are all skills that reinforce reason, problem-solving and communicating. Finding shapes in your home, both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional, make learning of geometry more real for students. Measurement can be reinforced with estimating distances when driving and measuring ingredients when baking. Having these overt conversations with your children, help contextualize mathematical learning while ensuring for students that there is a purpose to learning mathematics.

What can I do in lieu of homework?
Games such as Monopoly, cribbage, and Crazy Eights assist students with both number recognition and math facts. You can also check out the various teacher websites, wikis and weebly sites.
http://operationmathematics.weebly.com
http://strosekinderspace.wikispaces.com
http://msbarrysgradetwo.weebly.com
http://mrs.malonesgrade2crew.weebly.com
http://saintrosegradethree.com
http://mrsduffclassroom.weebly.com
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Number Sleuth: Practicing time table facts. 2 players and a deck of cards (remove face cards).
Instructions: Player one takes two cards and multiplies them together. They then put one card in each hand and place hands behind back. Player two picks one hand to see. Player one shows that card and says the product (answer) for the two cards is ____. Player two then has to tell Player one what the other factor (card) is. If correct, they keep the cards and then Player two picks two cards and follows the same routine.

Go on a shape hunt around your house! Look for 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional shapes. Look for a circle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, prism , pyramid, cylinder, cone, etc.
The older children should be able to show you where the faces, vertices and edges are on a 3-Dimensional shape.

Talk about numbers! What number comes before or after a number. Try 10 greater, 100 greater, 10 less, 100 less, etc

Albert Add’Em Up and Jack

Estimate! Estimate! Estimate! Ask your child to estimate how many people are at a hockey game, basketball game, store, etc or how many pieces of macaroni, rice, crackers, etc. are in a bowl. Is their estimate reasonable? Discuss the numbers.

Albert Add’Em Up visited classes and homes last year to see mathematics at work in our everyday lives. For ideas of where families have used real-life learning to connect with mathematics visit
http://operationmathematics.weebly.com