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Skills: Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table) and explain them using properties of operations Discover, look for and make use ...

Description: Get your 3rd graders up and moving with this interactive, lightly scripted 1 hour math lesson on mathematical patterns.  Grab it and have fun!  Your students will:

• Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table) and explain them using properties of operations
• Identify, look for and make use of structure by finding mathematical patterns
• Generate their own explanation of the patterns
• Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic and link their comments to the remarks of others
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps

CCSS: 3.OA.D.9, MP.7, SL.3.1.C

Skills: Work in collaborative partnerships Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification Practice key math ...

Description: Bring some wacky word problems into your math instruction!  ?  In this engaging, lightly-scripted 60-minute lesson, your students will:

• Work in collaborative partnerships
• Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
• Practice key math vocabulary
• Solve two-step word problems using the four operations
• Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity
• Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps

CCSS: 3.OA.8

Skills: Work in collaborative partnerships Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification Practice key math ...

Description: Grab this "real-life" application lesson for solving area with square units.  In this engaging, interactive, lightly scripted 1 hour lesson your 3rd graders will:

• Work in collaborative partnerships
• Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
• Practice key math vocabulary
• Recognize area as an attribute of a plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement
• Design their own dream home using square unit measurements
• Model with mathematics
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps regarding your students' understanding of recognizing area to design space

CCSS: 3.MD.C.5, MP4, SL.3.6

Skills: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories Solve one and two step “how many ...

Description: Graphing is fun for 3rd graders!  Creating their own based on topics of interest even better!  In this interactive, lightly scripted 1 hour lesson, they will:

• Work in collaborative partnerships
• Practice key math vocabulary
• Draw and interpret picture and bar graphs
• Generate their own graphs based on topics of interest
• Critically think and explain the "why" of the graphing data
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps

CCSS: 3.MD.B.3, MP5, SL.3.6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division and attend to precision Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics ...

Description: Long division can be confusing and challenging for 4th graders.  In this fully scripted and interactive lesson they will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division and attend to precision
• • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Model with mathematics
• Utilize prior division knowledge to practice the traditional algorithm for dividing with one digit divisors
• Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors
• Use strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division
• Practice the algorithm for dividends up to 4 digits in size
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NBT.6, MP2, MP4, MP6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions and attend to precision Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics ...

Description: Review and practice division with your 4th graders with this lightly scripted 60-90 minute lesson.  Your students will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Model with mathematics
• Determine whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors
• Practice different strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division
• Use area models with division problems in order to formulate a conventional way in which to divide whole numbers
• Create an area model of a sky scrapper
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NBT.6, MP2, MP4, MP6