Third Grade, Math, Set One

• Bedtime Math -- because I've been saving these for a while, we do three a day; Bedtime Math e-mails a math problem each day. There is a paragraph about a topic, then word problems that have something to do with the topic. There are three or four different levels of math problems.
• The first day we completed a project called Agriculture Counts. In this we sorted and counted the number of different animals in a bag of animal crackers, made tally marks, which we turned into a chart.
• We have done the first three lessons of Professor Pig. Each lesson has a few games to re-enforce the concept, and we have been playing them a lot. The chapters deal with:
• Magic Numbers -- numbers that add up to 10
• Magic Numbers plus one -- numbers that add up to 11
• Magic Numbers plus two -- numbers that add up to 12
• I found the book, Right In Your Own Backyard: Nature Math at the thrift store. It is part of the I Love Math series by Time-Life, published in the early 1990's. This book was a good review for starting our school year, and covered many topics, such as
• even/odd numbers
• patterns
• shapes
• addition
• subtraction
• categorizing
• estimating
• reading charts
• temperature
• measuring