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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Get ready to explore measurement by getting outside to measure nature! Week 6 of our Summer Math Camp is all about measuring and graphing skills. Find more ideas below. *Please Note: This post contains affiliate links that support the work of this site. Read our full disclosure here.* I&#8217;m excited to share the LAST week...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get ready to <strong>explore measurement by getting outside</strong> to measure nature! Week 6 of our Summer Math Camp is all about measuring and graphing skills. Find more ideas below.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m excited to share the LAST week of our third grade <strong>Summer Math Camp</strong> with you all! It has been a great and fun Summer with some sweet girls, and I think we covered a great amount of math! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p><strong>In case you missed it, be sure to check out the rest of this series:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 1: Operations with Large Numbers</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-2-multiplication/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 2: Multiplication</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-3-fractions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 3: Fractions</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-all-about-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 4: Money</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-5-time-and-elapsed-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 5: Telling Time and Elapsed Time</a></p>
<p>This week, we focused on some important measurement concepts, including measuring to the inch, half inch and quarter inch, as well as understanding the difference between area and perimeter. To start, <strong>we went outside</strong>!</p>
<p><em>*If you want a fun resource for seeing <strong>math in nature</strong>, scroll to the bottom of this article for a FREE poster set!*</em></p>
<p>First, however, we spent some time looking closely at the ruler and <strong>discussing fractions</strong> as they relate to one whole inch. This was a great opportunity to review all the ways we have thought about fractions this Summer. First, we discussed fractions using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QDTYMQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000QDTYMQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=GM2SEPM3LCG2SGIZ" rel="nofollow">fraction tiles</a><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QDTYMQ" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />. Then, we looked at fractions <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-all-about-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">as they relate to one dollar</a>. And last week, we looked at how fractions relate to time, as <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-5-time-and-elapsed-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fractions of an hour</a>.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like more resources for <strong>exploring fractions with rulers</strong>, check out my comprehensive lesson collection: <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/product/hands-fractions-grades-4-8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hands On Fractions with Rulers &amp; Paper Folding</a>.</p>
<p>After that, we went out to <strong>measure nature</strong>! I had them each explore my yard to find a handful of items to measure. Mostly this included sticks, leaves, flowers and seashells (no, we don&#8217;t live at the beach&#8230;we just have lots of shells sent <em>from</em> the beach, courtesy of MayMay and Papa <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> )</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1161" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama2.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Measurement_MathGeekMama2" width="700" height="927" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama2.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama2-600x795.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama2-227x300.jpg 227w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>They also found lots of other fun objects! It was a little distracting, and hard for me to keep up with everyone at first, because they were trying to measure items as they found them. So instead, I had them grab a handful of objects and all gather together to measure. This allowed me to help each of them when they had a question. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1162" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama3.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Measurement_MathGeekMama3" width="700" height="493" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama3.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama3-600x423.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama3-300x211.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>To help keep track of their measurements, I gave them each a <strong>recording sheet</strong>.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama4.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Measurement_MathGeekMama4" width="700" height="909" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama4.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama4-600x779.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama4-231x300.jpg 231w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>After completing the measurements, we used the data to graph the measurements. Even though there were some questions when measuring when it was not <em>exactly one inch</em>, they did a great job with their graphs!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1164" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama5.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Measurement_MathGeekMama5" width="700" height="851" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama5.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama5-600x729.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama5-247x300.jpg 247w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>If you would like to use this simple activity to <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/taking-math-outside-even-and-odd-number-beanbag-toss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">take math outside</a> and practice measuring, grab this free download! It includes the <strong>recording page</strong> as well as the <strong>graphing page</strong>!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Measuring-and-Graphing-Nature-Activity_MathGeekMama.pdf">{Click HERE to go to my shop and download the &#8220;Measuring Nature&#8221; Pages!}</a></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">After that fun measuring, it was on to perimeter and area! I wanted to make sure they understood the difference between these two big &#8220;math words,&#8221; so it was time for some hands-on exploration! When I first began to introduce the topic, no one could tell me anything about either of them, so we started at the beginning.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I used our kitchen table as an example, and explained that if I were hanging a banner around the outside of the table, that would be using and measuring the <strong>perimeter</strong>. If, however, I wanted to cover the table with a table cloth, that would be the <strong>area</strong> of the table. After talking about it, it was time to get to work! I made these simple practice pages to use with my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F8VBBO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000F8VBBO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=6FBHEBKHMDGNBAD3" rel="nofollow">base ten blocks</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000F8VBBO" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />. We simply placed blocks around each rectangle to determine the perimeter, then filled in the rectangle to determine the area.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1165" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama6.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Measurement_MathGeekMama6" width="700" height="890" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama6.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama6-600x763.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Measurement_MathGeekMama6-236x300.jpg 236w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We tried to focus on using what we know about rectangles to help solve the problem, rather than counting out every.single.block. So for example, when we counted the width, there were 6 blocks. Therefore, the side <em>opposite</em> would also equal 6. Then we talked about how to find the total number of blocks (or total measurement). They saw right away that we could simply add all the sides (so 6+6 = 12 and 8+8 = 16, therefore perimeter equals 12+18 = 28).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Determining area proved to be a little more difficult for them. After filling in the rectangle with blocks, they wanted to count them all. I encouraged them to find an easier way, and after some discussion, we noticed that there were <em>6 rows of 8 blocks</em>, which is equal to 6&#215;8 = 48.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We had already had a similar discussion <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-2-multiplication/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">when we worked on multiplication</a>, but they didn&#8217;t make the connection right away. That&#8217;s ok though! It allowed me to see that there were still questions, and we had some good discussion!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Measuring-Perimeter-and-Area_MathGeekMama.pdf">{Click HERE to download the &#8220;Measuring Perimeter and Area&#8221; Pages!}</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">I also really wanted to take some time to explore some <strong>real life examples</strong> of using perimeter and area measurements, but we ran out of time. I had planned to take them back outside, though, and use our measuring tape to determine how much fencing we would need if we were to put a fence around our house.  But again, we ran out of time.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I did send them home with <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dream-House-An-Additive-Area-Project-Common-Core-FREEBIE-619339" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this fun activity from Blair Turner</a>, however, that I hoped would extend the work that we started. It gives them a chance to be creative, practice finding area, as well as adding up multiple areas.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are also some good <a href="http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/3rd-grade-measurement-and-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">measurement and data activities at K-5 Math Teaching Resources</a>. These are aligned to common core, making it easy to find what you&#8217;re looking for.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For other fun, <strong>outdoor measurement activities</strong>, try:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This <a href="http://www.pbs.org/parents/adventures-in-learning/2014/07/marshmallow-popper-math/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">shoot and measure activity</a> from Allison at No Time for Flashcards. It looks so fun!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://jdaniel4smom.com/2015/07/math-for-kids-measuring-chalk-drawings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Measuring Sidewalk Chalk Drawings</a> from JDaniel4&#8217;s Mom</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or, if your kids really like to get outside to <em>measure nature</em>, <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/exploring-math-and-science-in-your-own-backyard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">check out this post which incorporates math, science and literature</a>!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/exploring-math-and-science-in-your-own-backyard/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1008 size-medium" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Exploring-Math-in-Nature-193x300.jpg" alt="Exploring Math in Nature" width="193" height="300" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Exploring-Math-in-Nature-193x300.jpg 193w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Exploring-Math-in-Nature-600x933.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Exploring-Math-in-Nature-659x1024.jpg 659w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Exploring-Math-in-Nature.jpg 700w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px" /></a><br />
I hope you found some useful ideas for your class or homeschool!</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to week 5 of Summer Math Camp here at Math Geek Mama! This week we worked on time problems! Telling time, adding and subtracting time, and figuring out elapsed time! It was so fun! If you&#8217;ve missed the rest of this series, check out each week so far {there are FREE resources each week!}:...</p>
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<p>Welcome to week 5 of <strong>Summer Math Camp</strong> here at Math Geek Mama! This week we <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JH41/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00000JH41&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=6V6A3LHSYSX6N22V" rel="nofollow">worked on time problems</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00000JH41" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />! Telling time, adding and subtracting time, and figuring out elapsed time! It was so fun!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve missed the rest of this series, check out each week so far {there are FREE resources each week!}:</p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 1: Operations with Large Numbers-Comparing, Rounding, Adding and Subtracting</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-2-multiplication/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 2: Exploring the Meaning of Multiplication and Solving Problems involving Multiplication</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-3-fractions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 3: Understanding Fractions and Adding and Subtracting Fractions</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-all-about-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 4: Exploring Real Life Math Using Money</a></p>
<p>By third grade, students are expected to know how to tell time proficiently, so you may be wondering why we spent an entire lesson on telling time. Well, using time and <em>solving problems involving time</em> is an extremely important real life math concept, and will be a topic that is used and explored in many math classes to come. So it&#8217;s pretty important for kids to master it!</p>
<p>For third graders, according to the common core standards, <strong>students should be able to</strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot of ideas and concepts to explore in that <em>one standard</em>, so this is what I based our entire lesson on. We had a lot of fun, and I hope you find some useful ideas as well!</p>
<p>I was really excited to get the girls up and moving to practice and review telling time, so I had planned to start by <a href="http://creeksidelearning.com/telling-time-activities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">making hula hoop clocks</a> and letting them race to &#8220;set the time&#8221; when I called it out. Unfortunately, a couple girls couldn&#8217;t join us this week, so I decided to wait on that one! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>Instead, we started with a <a href="http://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-telling-time-games-for-k-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fun review using these BINGO boards from The Measured Mom</a>!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-telling-time-games-for-k-2/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1110" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/free-telling-time-games-for-K-21-590x590-300x300.png" alt="free-telling-time-games-for-K-21-590x590" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/free-telling-time-games-for-K-21-590x590-300x300.png 300w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/free-telling-time-games-for-K-21-590x590-100x100.png 100w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/free-telling-time-games-for-K-21-590x590-150x150.png 150w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/free-telling-time-games-for-K-21-590x590.png 590w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p>
<p>We used the hardest level to play which included time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour. I used some game pieces from a board game to make our way around the outside of the board, and pennies for bingo markers, and it worked great!</p>
<p>After a basic review of time and how a clock works (how many minutes in an hour, how we count minutes around the clock, etc.) it was time to move on to harder problems.</p>
<p>I liked the idea of this <a href="http://www.time-for-time.com/worksheets.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tv guide activity</a> (one of the worksheets on this page) for practicing elapsed time, but decided that since it is Summer, it would be more fun to <strong>create a schedule</strong> for the perfect Summer day!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1109" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Elapsed-Time-Free-Practice-Page_Math-Geek-Mama.jpg" alt="Elapsed Time Free Practice Page_Math Geek Mama" width="700" height="888" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Elapsed-Time-Free-Practice-Page_Math-Geek-Mama.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Elapsed-Time-Free-Practice-Page_Math-Geek-Mama-600x761.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Elapsed-Time-Free-Practice-Page_Math-Geek-Mama-236x300.jpg 236w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>We had fun thinking of the <em>best ways to spend Summer days </em>(like swimming, going to the movies, eating yummy treats), and adding them to the chart. After choosing a start time and an end time, we figured out how to determine the <strong>total duration</strong> by using a <strong>number line</strong>.</p>
<p>We would start by counting the hours. For example, if I go swimming from 9 until 12:30, we would count from 9 to 10, then 10 to 11, and 11 to 12, and write 1 hour over each of those. Then from 12 to 12:30 we would write 30 minutes. Finally, we would add the hours and minutes, giving a duration of 3 hours and 30 minutes. To see some examples of similar problems written out, <a href="http://teachertreasures.com/Elapsed_Time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">check out this great FREE resource from Teacher Treasures</a>.</p>
<p>This was also a good opportunity to discuss <strong>what an hour means</strong> (a full sixty minutes, or once around the clock). So if a start time was not on the hour, say, start at 9:20, one hour would be all the way around the clock to 10:20.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1113" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Perfect-Summer-Day-Elapsed-Time-Activity.jpg" alt="Perfect Summer Day Elapsed Time Activity" width="303" height="388" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Perfect-Summer-Day-Elapsed-Time-Activity.jpg 479w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Perfect-Summer-Day-Elapsed-Time-Activity-234x300.jpg 234w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Perfect-Summer-Day_Elapsed-Time-Activity.pdf">{Click HERE to go to my shop and download the &#8220;Perfect Summer Day&#8221; Activity!}</a></strong></h3>
<p>After completing this, I wanted to work on some word problems that would involve not only reviewing <strong>adding and subtracting time</strong>, but also <strong>&#8220;time words&#8221;</strong> such as quarter after, half past, etc. To have a chance to get up and move some (and hopefully make word problems a little more fun), I made a &#8220;Clock Hunt.&#8221;</p>
<p>I created <strong>a set of questions cards</strong> that ended with some form of &#8220;What time is it?&#8221; and once solved, the girls would have to go and <strong>find the clock</strong> with the correct time somewhere around the room.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1106" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Time-Word-Problems-Solve-and-Search-FREE2_Math-Geek-Mama.jpg" alt="Time Word Problems Solve and Search FREE2_Math Geek Mama" width="350" height="486" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Time-Word-Problems-Solve-and-Search-FREE2_Math-Geek-Mama.jpg 437w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Time-Word-Problems-Solve-and-Search-FREE2_Math-Geek-Mama-216x300.jpg 216w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></p>
<p>Because I made this for a small group, there are only <strong>8 question cards</strong> (4 requiring <em>adding time</em> and 4 requiring <em>subtracting time</em>). But if you wanted to use this with a class, you could simply print multiple copies, and some students would just have the same question. Or you could use it as a math center matching activity, or something for early finishers to work on (again, just as a matching activity, not a &#8220;clock hunt&#8221;).</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1104" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Time-Word-Problems-Solve-and-Search-Clocks-FREE_Math-Geek-Mama.jpg" alt="Time Word Problems Solve and Search Clocks FREE_Math Geek Mama" width="340" height="441" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Time-Word-Problems-Solve-and-Search-Clocks-FREE_Math-Geek-Mama.jpg 464w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Time-Word-Problems-Solve-and-Search-Clocks-FREE_Math-Geek-Mama-231x300.jpg 231w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/What-Time-Is-It-Clock-Search-Activity.pdf">{Click HERE to download the &#8220;What Time Is It?&#8221; Clock Hunt Activity!}</a></p>
<p>I would suggest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FM76BK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004FM76BK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=TH5ZTPHPJPOG3A2F" rel="nofollow">laminating the clocks</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004FM76BK" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> for multiple uses, but I did not laminate the question cards. I wanted them to be able to <strong>write on them</strong> to work out the answer, if they wanted.</p>
<p>Overall, I thought this went great, and provided what was <em>apparently</em> a much needed review of &#8220;time words.&#8221; I was not anticipating that to be the challenge here, but it was! And it gave us the opportunity <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-3-fractions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to look at yet another example of using fractions</a>! To help explain the terms, I drew a clock and drew a line down the middle (meaning half). Therefore, half past 6 is 6:30 (halfway through the hour). Then I drew a line again to cut the clock into quarters, and we talked about how many minutes were in each quarter, etc.</p>
<p>So I think we had some good review and wonderful math discussions this week!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://shop.mathgeekmama.com/product/elapsed-time-activities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-73924 size-full" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Elapsed-Time-Bundle-Cover.jpg" alt="Elapsed Time Bundle Cover" width="482" height="622" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Elapsed-Time-Bundle-Cover.jpg 482w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Elapsed-Time-Bundle-Cover-232x300.jpg 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Want a variety of fun elapsed time activities and challenges all in one download? This resource bundle includes a complete set of &#8220;My Perfect Day&#8221; activities (all 4 seasons), the clock hunt PLUS task cards and a board game! <strong>That&#8217;s 40+ elapsed time problems for only $3</strong>!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>&gt;&gt;<a href="https://shop.mathgeekmama.com/product/elapsed-time-activities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Get the complete Elapsed Time Resource Bundle!&lt;&lt;</a></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you are looking for more practice with <strong>writing and telling time</strong>, check out this set of free worksheets:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/time-for-spring-free-time-practice-worksheets/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-444" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Time-for-Spring-Title.png" alt="Time for Spring Title" width="278" height="348" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Time-for-Spring-Title.png 464w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Time-for-Spring-Title-239x300.png 239w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/time-for-spring-free-time-practice-worksheets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spring-themed telling time worksheets</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or check out <a href="http://www.havefunteaching.com/activities/math-activities/telling-time-activities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this page</a> from Have Fun Teaching, which includes a <a href="http://www.havefunteaching.com/activities/math-activities/telling-time-activities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">variety of free telling time activities</a>!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And if you would like an online resource to practice time, <a href="http://www.teachjunkie.com/math-subject/11-free-telling-time-games-online/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here&#8217;s a list of 11 free online telling time games</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or if you&#8217;re like me, and enjoy a good ol&#8217; fashioned board game, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GRV5JL6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00GRV5JL6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=O3H2N36F6VOZKWDP" rel="nofollow">try playing Zingo</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00GRV5JL6" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I hope you find something useful and are able to make learning and telling time FUN! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so excited to bring you the next part in my Summer Math Camp series! This week we worked on all things money: counting coins, adding money, making change, and even considered fractions of a dollar!  If you&#8217;ve missed the rest of this series so far, we started with operations with large numbers, then worked...</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m so excited to bring you the next part in my Summer Math Camp series! This week we worked on all things money: <strong>counting coins, adding money, making change, and even considered fractions of a dollar! </strong></p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve missed the rest of this series so far, we started with <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">operations with large numbers</a>, then worked on <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-2-multiplication/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">understanding multiplication in week 2</a>, then <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-3-fractions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">discussed fractions and equivalent fractions in week 3</a>! Be sure to check out those as well, because they are packed with FREE downloads and teaching ideas!</p>
<p>I like to have something simple and self explanatory for them to start with to help ease into it. It is summer, after all, and they&#8217;re not usually in &#8220;school mode&#8221; when they arrive, haha! So this week, I had <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/counting-change-money-puzzles-free/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">these money puzzles</a> out and they worked hard to get them all done!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1057" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp_Money-Puzzles.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp_Money Puzzles" width="700" height="908" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp_Money-Puzzles.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp_Money-Puzzles-600x778.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp_Money-Puzzles-231x300.jpg 231w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Once they felt comfortable counting up coins and handling money, it was time to put it to use! I wanted to make sure they understood why we need to add and subtract money, rather than just giving them a worksheet full of problems, so we treated ourselves to the Cozy Corner Bakery!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1060" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Money-Activity-Menu.jpg" alt="Cozy Corner Bakery Money Activity Menu" width="370" height="489" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Money-Activity-Menu.jpg 370w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Money-Activity-Menu-227x300.jpg 227w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px" /></p>
<p>I passed out a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TZFB8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0007TZFB8&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=ARZCZZRDYWOC2B3P" rel="nofollow">handful of play money</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0007TZFB8" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> to each girl (it came out to between $3.50 and $4 for each of them) and they took turns ordering treats at the bakery. Though this activity helped them practice numerous skills, it was also immensely practical because the girl ordering had to <strong>make sure she had enough money for what she wanted to buy</strong>.</p>
<p>Then, the one who took the order would <strong>fill out a receipt</strong> for the purchase and put her math skills to work!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1061" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Money-Activity-Receipts.jpg" alt="Cozy Corner Bakery Money Activity Receipts" width="426" height="251" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Money-Activity-Receipts.jpg 377w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Money-Activity-Receipts-300x177.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px" /></p>
<p>We discussed how finding the <strong>total</strong> required <em>adding</em>, while figuring out the <strong>change due</strong> would require <em>subtraction</em>.</p>
<p>They took turns being the customer and the cashier until they no longer had enough money to purchase anything. Then we enjoyed a cookie, because it&#8217;s not really fair to go to the bakery and not actually enjoy any baked goods! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>To use this activity, all I did was print the menu and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FM76BK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004FM76BK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=NKNYM3MAVY6IJDUS" rel="nofollow">laminate it</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004FM76BK" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> (so I can use it again with my own kids), then print the receipts and cut them out. This download includes 1 page of 6 receipts, but you could print multiple copies to have a class set.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cozy-Corner-Bakery-Fun-with-Money.pdf">{Click HERE to go to my shop and  download the Cozy Corner Bakery Activity Set!}</a></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">Another great thing about this activity is that it can be used over and over with different amounts of starting money, purchasing different items, paying with larger bills, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After having some fun &#8220;at the bakery&#8221; (and enjoying a yummy snack break!), <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-3-fractions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I wanted to use the opportunity to go back to fractions</a> and hopefully help them think about it <strong>a different way</strong>. I had tried to explain the meaning of the numerator versus the denominator, but they still seemed to struggle at the end of our time last week.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So we used <strong>one dollar</strong> as our &#8220;whole&#8221; and looked at different ways we can <strong>break a dollar into equal parts</strong>. I gave each of them this worksheet:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1064" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Money-Fractions.jpg" alt="Money Fractions" width="412" height="533" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Money-Fractions.jpg 478w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Money-Fractions-232x300.jpg 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">and we worked through it together, one at a time. We talked about <strong>how many of each coin we need to make a dollar</strong>. For example, number one shows one quarter, which equals 25 cents, but <em>four quarters</em> equals a dollar. So we lined up four quarters and discussed how the <strong>numerator</strong> would be one (because we only have one quarter) but the <strong>denominator</strong> would be four (because it takes four quarters to make a dollar). Then we went back to the original problem and restated it as &#8220;25 cents is equal to 1/4 of a dollar.&#8221; We then did the same for each of the problems.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After we finished the page, we talked about how the <em>amount</em> is what&#8217;s important, not which coins we have. For example, if you have two dimes and a nickel, it&#8217;s still 25 cents, so you still have 1/4 of a dollar.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I also wanted to use money to review <strong>rounding</strong> (<a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">which we worked on in week one</a>) and <strong>estimating</strong>, but we ran out of time. I was planning to give them each a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TZFB8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0007TZFB8&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=KKHNKMD5NANR5JHF" rel="nofollow">handful of change</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0007TZFB8" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />, let them <em>round</em> it to the nearest ten cents, then <em>estimate</em> the fraction of a dollar. Oh well, maybe we&#8217;ll get to this next week! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Money-Fractions-Worksheets.pdf">{Click HERE to download the Money Fractions Worksheet pages!}</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Using money is a great way to practice and review many different math skills in a <strong>real life context</strong>. It&#8217;s more meaningful for kids because they will have to know how to correctly handle money in the real world, and it&#8217;s more fun because you can easily turn it into a game!</p>
<p>And of course, if you want yet another way to talk about money with your kids, try reading a fun math story! I recently discovered some excellent teaching resources from <a href="http://www.takechargeamerica.org/financial-education/teaching-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Take Charge America</a> that try to teach personal finance lessons to kids at an early age. They use math stories as the basis of the lessons for grades 1-5, and the best part? They are all <strong>free</strong>! There are ten lessons for each grade, with about 3 different activities to go along with each lesson. I plan to use some of the first grade lessons with my kids this year! <a href="http://www.takechargeamerica.org/financial-education/teaching-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out all their free personal finance teaching resources here</a>.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1055" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-4_Money.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week 4_Money" width="700" height="1004" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-4_Money.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-4_Money-600x861.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-4_Money-209x300.jpg 209w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Overall, I thought things went well this week, and I look forward to a few more weeks of &#8220;math camp&#8221; before school starts again! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to week 3 of my Summer Math Camp! I have *loved* doing math and playing fun games with these girls and sharing our learning experiences with you! In case you&#8217;ve missed it, the first week we focused on operations with large numbers, including adding, subtracting, comparing and rounding. Last week, we worked on building...</p>
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<p>Welcome to <strong>week 3</strong> of my Summer Math Camp! I have *loved* doing math and playing fun games with these girls and sharing our learning experiences with you! In case you&#8217;ve missed it, the first week we focused on <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">operations with large numbers</a>, including adding, subtracting, comparing and rounding. Last week, we worked on <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-2-multiplication/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">building a conceptual understanding of multiplication</a>, as well as word problems involving multiplication.</p>
<p>This week? <strong>Fractions!</strong> Honestly, my week last week was crazy and I did not have as much time to get myself organized, yet I still ended up with more plans than we had time for, haha!</p>
<p>I read over the <a href="http://www.shmoop.com/common-core-standards/ccss-3-nf-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">third grade standards regarding fractions</a> to get an idea of what they should know, but I really had no idea what to expect in terms of prior knowledge. So I had a pretty loose plan this week so that I could focus on meeting them where they are.</p>
<p>They had so much fun with <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/expanded-numbers-puzzles-free/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">these place value puzzles</a>, I let them try out <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/fraction-puzzles-free-download/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">these fraction puzzles</a> to ease into things and begin to visualize fractions.</p>
<p>After having some fun with those and starting the discussion, I wanted to create some fractions and try and place them on a <strong>number line</strong> so we could discuss, &#8220;what is a fraction, and what do all these numbers mean?&#8221; To create some fractions, I let each girl roll two <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042SQX3E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0042SQX3E&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=FSDFZQM3PT4NXRXE" rel="nofollow">giant foam dice</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0042SQX3E" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> (similar to these) and they used the two numbers to write down their fraction.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-984" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_4.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week 3_4" width="700" height="686" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_4.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_4-600x588.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_4-300x294.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Once we had 3 fractions, we began to discuss <strong>where to place them on the number line</strong>. The first fraction we discussed was 2/4 and the immediate response when I asked if it was bigger or smaller than 1 was <strong>bigger</strong>. When I said, &#8220;Why? How do you know?&#8221; they all agreed: &#8220;Because the numbers are bigger than one.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ok. Time to <em>back up</em>. I got out my fraction squares (though I really prefer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007BFS9YG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B007BFS9YG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=EDRHUKVW2MXZY7IZ">these fraction tiles</a>, but I don&#8217;t have any yet) and we used them to compare 1 whole square with <em>two fourths pieces </em>and saw that it is indeed smaller. We then compared <em>that</em> to the <em>one half</em> piece, and saw that they were equal! Then we went back to the number line and they understood that 2/4 would be right in the middle of 0 and 1. We then continued to do this with each of the fractions, using 1/2 as a benchmark on the number line.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-982" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_2.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week 3_2" width="700" height="928" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_2.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_2-600x795.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_2-226x300.jpg 226w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>We also spent time (with pretty much every fraction we looked at) discussing the meaning of the numerator and denominator in relation to the fraction square pieces, <a href="http://www.mathcoachscorner.com/2015/04/29/fraction-basics-the-meaning-of-the-denominator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">much like in this post at Math Coach&#8217;s corner</a>.</p>
<p>Then they were so excited about doing <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-2-multiplication/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">multiplication with skittles</a>, they BEGGED to do fractions with skittles too! This was not part of the plan, but why not, right?? This provided <em>yet another</em> discussion of the meaning of the numerator and denominator in context!</p>
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<p>So I got out my <strong>giant bag of skittles </strong>(yes, it is huge. Entirely too many skittles. We may find a way to use them in each of our remaining weeks, ha!), I gave each girl 6, and told them to write a fraction to represent a portion of their skittles.</p>
<p>They immediately started throwing out random fractions, so I got 6 skittles to explain my thinking. I had 4 yellow skittles, so I wrote the fraction 4/6. I asked them if they saw where I got those numbers and what they mean, and they were still at a loss.</p>
<p>As I explained that the 4 represents <em>4 yellow skittles</em>, and the 6 represents the <em>total number of skittles</em>, I pointed them <strong>back to the fraction tiles</strong>. The denominator tells us the total number of equal parts the whole is broken into. We made several fractions with our skittles as well and I continued to explain each as, &#8220;4 out of 6 skittles are red,&#8221; or &#8220;3/6 of the skittles are green.&#8221;</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-983" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_3.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week 3_3" width="700" height="996" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_3.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_3-600x854.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_3-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Once we had eaten all of the skittles, they were ready to move on. The last thing I wanted to review with them was adding and subtracting fractions (with common denominators) and continue to practice comparing. I made this simple game and they had a blast!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-980" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Fraction-Race-Game_Add-Subtract-and-Compare.jpg" alt="Fraction Race Game_Add Subtract and Compare" width="480" height="622" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Fraction-Race-Game_Add-Subtract-and-Compare.jpg 480w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Fraction-Race-Game_Add-Subtract-and-Compare-232x300.jpg 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></p>
<p>Simply <strong>print</strong> the game board and question cards, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FM76BK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004FM76BK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=Z2CZ5PDGDVWBM3LL" rel="nofollow">laminate them</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004FM76BK" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />, <strong>cut out</strong> the cards, and you&#8217;re ready to play! There are 30 game cards that include adding, subtracting and comparing fractions.</p>
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<p>There was not much trouble with adding, except to review what happens to the denominator. In order to add 3/10 + 5/10, we again pulled out <em>tenths fraction tiles</em> and added them to see that we still have <em>tenths</em> pieces, so no need to add the denominator values together.</p>
<p>We also pulled out the tiles anytime there was a comparing question (and continued to use 1/2 as a benchmark), as well as when one of them got the question 1-1/3. I reminded them of &#8220;regrouping&#8221; in subtraction, and showed them how to rewrite <em>1 whole</em> as <em>3 thirds (3/3)</em>. Then we &#8220;took away&#8221; 1 of the tiles and saw that 2/3 remained.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-985" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_5.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week 3_5" width="700" height="961" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_5.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_5-600x824.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-3_5-219x300.jpg 219w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>To help them continue to work on <strong>visualizing fractions</strong> <strong>and equivalent fractions</strong>, I sent them home with <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Equivalent-Fractions-69229" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this freebie from Jan Lindley</a>.</p>
<p>Overall, I felt like they did a great job, and hopefully started to get a better grasp of <strong>what fractions represent</strong>, rather than simply memorizing procedures.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like more resources for exploring fractions, check out this <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/the-lions-share-lessons-and-printables/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">free set of activities to go along with the book &#8220;The Lion&#8217;s Share.&#8221;</a>  Want more <strong>fun books on fractions</strong>? Try one of these:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585364606/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1585364606&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=4BMQOZZRTWSGBI4K" rel="nofollow">Whole-y Cow!: Fractions Are Fun</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1585364606" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> by Taryn Souders</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763641308/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0763641308&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=OV5LBLUIOJTAZOGG" rel="nofollow">Full House: An Invitation to Fractions</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0763641308" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> by Dayle Ann Dodds</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059096576X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=059096576X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=FYWASKIERACF53NB" rel="nofollow">Funny &amp; Fabulous Fraction Stories: 30 Reproducible Math Tales and Problems to Reinforce Important Fraction Skills</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=059096576X" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> by Dan Greenburg</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0448431130/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0448431130&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=TGLXGDPTRA6T4WLO" rel="nofollow">Go, Fractions! </a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0448431130" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> (a math reader about fractions and soccer) by Judith Stamper</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/082341244X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=082341244X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=KHFUNGPPHRTTHXGH" rel="nofollow">Fraction Action</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=082341244X" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> by Loreen Leedy</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006446721X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=006446721X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=5NMQGH3YJ2OLO2I5" rel="nofollow">Jump, Kangaroo, Jump!</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=006446721X" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> by Stuart Murphy</p>
<p>And if you have older students who are working on more advanced problems with fractions and decimals, I have a <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/fractions-and-decimals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">whole page of practice worksheets</a> that you may find useful (these are appropriate for grades 6-7).</p>
<p>Have fun teaching and exploring fractions with your students!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I am SO excited to share with you week two of my Summer Math Camp! I am focusing on reinforcing and practicing important third grade math skills, and sharing all the details and freebies with you! Here&#8217;s everything we started with in week one, in case you missed it. Hopefully the ideas and resources in...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am SO excited to share with you week two of my Summer Math Camp! I am focusing on reinforcing and practicing important <strong>third grade math skills</strong>, and sharing all the details and freebies with you! <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/summer-math-camp-week-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here&#8217;s everything we started with in week one</a>, in case you missed it. Hopefully the ideas and resources in this post will be helpful for <strong>multiplication for 3rd grade</strong>, or some easy ways to review if you teach 4th or 5th grade.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-935" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-2.jpg" alt="This post has some fun and unique ideas for exploring multiplication for third grade! " width="700" height="467" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-2.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-2-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>This week I wanted to focus on <strong>multiplication</strong>, because it is a MAJOR piece of the <strong>third grade curriculum</strong>, and something that a lot of kids struggle with.</p>
<p>My goal, however, was not to spend our time drilling math facts or teaching them &#8220;tricks&#8221; to memorize them. While I do recognize that it is helpful to have multiplication facts memorized for easier and more fluent computation down the road, I think it is <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/product/introduction-multiplication-lesson-bundle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">much MORE important that kids have a conceptual understanding</a> of <em>what multiplication is</em> so that they can <em>still solve problems</em>, even if they don&#8217;t remember a particular fact.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re teaching multiplication for 3rd grade, hopefully this post will give you some great ideas for looking at <strong>multiple representations</strong> and trying some <strong>hands on activities</strong>.</p>
<p>So the first representation of multiplication we looked at <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/2x2boo-hands-on-multiplication-fun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">was groups of equal parts</a>. (For example, 4 groups of 6 objects is equivalent to 4&#215;6). To help visualize this, we used my <strong>favorite</strong> math manipulative: candy!</p>
<p>The purpose of this first activity was not to simply model multiplication, however. I wanted to {hopefully} build a foundation for factoring and divisibility rules. To do this, I gave them each a <strong>handful of skittles </strong>(and I would often count them to make sure it was a number that would work easily) .</p>
<p>Then, they had to try and <strong>divide it into equal parts</strong>. If they split them into piles of three, for example, and it didn&#8217;t work out into equal piles, they had to try a different number (and thus, their number was not divisible by three). Once they found equal piles, they would write the appropriate multiplication sentence on their paper.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-942 size-full" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Multiplication-with-Skittles.jpg" alt="This post has some fun and unique ideas for exploring multiplication for third grade! " width="700" height="868" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Multiplication-with-Skittles.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Multiplication-with-Skittles-600x744.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Multiplication-with-Skittles-242x300.jpg 242w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>It was great to see them realize they could make different groupings with the same number of skittles. For example, one girl had 24 skittles, so she was able to make 8 groups of 3 <em>and</em> 6 groups of 4, etc. It was also a great way to discuss the <strong>commutative property</strong> and show that if they could make 8 equal groups of 3, then they could also make 3 equal groups of 8.</p>
<p>Once they had a list of multiplication facts that they had <strong>made and written themselves</strong>, it was time to move on to another representation of multiplication&#8211;area (or in this case, the total number of blocks).</p>
<p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fact-fluency/id1564139726"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-606513" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32-1024x427.png" alt="" width="1024" height="427" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32-1024x427.png 1024w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32-300x125.png 300w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32-768x320.png 768w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32-1536x640.png 1536w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32-600x250.png 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/32.png 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
<p>After discussing it and showing them how to find the total number of &#8220;blocks,&#8221; I let them color their answers on these multiplication pages.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-938" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication-Answer.jpg" alt="Color the Multiplication Answer" width="402" height="523" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication-Answer.jpg 474w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication-Answer-230x300.jpg 230w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px" /></p>
<p>If you would like to download these free pages, there is blank page because my girls used the multiplication problems they had <em>written themselves</em>. But in the download, there are also two pages that have problems written, so students can color the blocks and write the correct answer.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication-Answer.pdf">{Click HERE to go to my shop and  download the &#8220;Color the Multiplication&#8221; Pages!}</a></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-941 size-full" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication2.jpg" alt="This post has some fun and unique ideas for exploring multiplication for third grade! " width="700" height="879" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication2.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication2-600x753.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-the-Multiplication2-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After reviewing multiplication, I wanted to take some time to work on <strong>word problems</strong>, so I could help them see how these different representations can be <em>used and applied</em>. I also wanted to help them practice problem solving strategies, especially <strong><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/problem-solving-strategies-draw-a-picture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">drawing a picture</a></strong> (which was particularly useful for these problems). If you&#8217;d like these problems, you can download them below! (They require multiplication and then subtraction to solve.)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-943" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Two-Step-Word-Problems.jpg" alt="Two Step Word Problems" width="368" height="479" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Two-Step-Word-Problems.jpg 479w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Two-Step-Word-Problems-231x300.jpg 231w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Two-Step-Word-Problems.pdf">{Click HERE to download the Multiplication Word Problem Pages!}</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We didn&#8217;t do all of the word problems because I wanted to end with a game! To help review various representations of multiplication and hopefully help them see these as <em>equivalent</em>, we played this great, <a href="http://letsplaymath.net/2013/12/17/multiplication-models-card-game/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">free game from Let&#8217;s Play Math</a>!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And I plan to play this again next week as a review before we move on to our new concept! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://gum.co/introtomultiplication" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-605920" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-300x300.jpg 300w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-150x150.jpg 150w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-768x768.jpg 768w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-100x100.jpg 100w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle-600x600.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Intro-to-Multiplication-Bundle.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">All of these resources have been <strong>updated</strong> and included in my <strong>HUGE Introduction to Multiplication Lesson Bundle</strong>! Everything you need to help students build a strong foundation and work towards multiplication fact fluency!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://shop.mathgeekmama.com/product/intro-to-multiplication-bundle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">{Click HERE to get the entire Introduction to Multiplication Lesson Bundle!}</a></h3>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bethany]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so excited to share with you a really fun event that I&#8217;m hosting at my house this summer! I&#8217;m teaching and reviewing some important third grade math skills to a wonderfully sweet group of girls, and I want to share my plans, games and ideas with you! We are meeting for one hour each...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-886" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp1.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp1" width="700" height="467" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp1.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp1-600x400.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp1-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;m so excited to share with you a really fun event that I&#8217;m hosting at my house this summer! I&#8217;m teaching and reviewing some important third grade math skills to a wonderfully sweet group of girls, and I want to share my plans, games and ideas with you!</p>
<p>We are meeting for one hour each week, so it&#8217;s not a huge time commitment, but I hope to cover as much third grade math as we can over the summer to help them keep up their skills, and maybe better internalize some of the concepts that they struggled with during the school year.</p>
<p>And even though we <em>do</em> have to work on some difficult math concepts, and my goal is to help them see their mistakes and learn from them, it<em> is</em> summer vacation, so I&#8217;m all about trying to make it FUN!</p>
<p>My goal is to have a set skill that we focus on each week, and then build on that as the summer goes on, rather than doing a hodge podge of random problems and games. I want to help them focus on <em>conceptual</em> understanding, rather than just practicing lots and lots of math problems each week. I&#8217;m basing our focus areas on third grade common core standards, but these activities could work with grades 2nd-4th, depending on their level and ability.</p>
<h3><strong>Week One Focus:</strong></h3>
<p>Large Numbers: Place value, comparing, rounding, adding and subtracting</p>
<p><strong>Warm Up</strong>&#8211; To help the girls settle in and review place value, I let them work on these <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/expanded-numbers-puzzles-free/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">expanded number puzzles</a>. I printed and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FM76BK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004FM76BK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=VX4Z7XNMTD7HPIKI" rel="nofollow">laminated</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004FM76BK" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> them before cutting them out, and I was excited to see that they LOVED them!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-892 size-full" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-1.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week 1" width="700" height="472" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-1.jpg 700w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-1-600x405.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week-1-300x202.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Then we moved on to a simple place value game that I created that allowed them to compare large numbers and then round to the tens and hundreds place. We were able to cover so much math in such a simple game!</p>
<p>All you need is a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000050GET/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000050GET&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=Q3ORVV67I26B32FT" rel="nofollow">deck of playing cards</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000050GET" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> (remove face cards and tens; we used &#8220;ace&#8221; as zero), and this handy dandy printable (again, I <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FM76BK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004FM76BK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=VX4Z7XNMTD7HPIKI" rel="nofollow">laminated</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004FM76BK" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> these):</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-889" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Place-Value-Mat-300x229.jpg" alt="Place Value Mat" width="300" height="229" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Place-Value-Mat-300x229.jpg 300w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Place-Value-Mat-600x458.jpg 600w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Place-Value-Mat.jpg 623w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/product/simple-place-value-game-comparing-large-numbers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">{Click HERE to go to my shop and download the FREE Place Value Mat!}</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>To Play:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After decided who would choose first, the girls went around the circle drawing a card from the deck. Each time they drew a card, they had to place it in on of the spaces on their mat, and then it <strong>could not be moved</strong>. So, if they drew a high number and placed it in the tens place, and then drew a low number, they could not switch them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The goal is to make the largest number possible, so they had to think about where to place each card that might make the most sense.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Once they &#8220;built&#8221; their number, they had to round it to the <em>tens</em> and <em>hundreds</em> place on their mat using a dry erase marker.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Once everyone had their number and finished rounding, they would line them up and compare. They had to decide and agree on who had the largest number and explain why, and then that person would receive <strong>a point</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Then I checked their rounding, and each time they rounded correctly, they would also receive <strong>a point</strong>. (Therefore, the most points they could receive in a round was 3, but they could always get 2 if they rounded correctly.)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After calculating points, we erased the board, shuffled the cards and played another round!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>To Win:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After several rounds, <strong>the player with the most points wins</strong>!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I was surprised to find that none of the girls had any knowledge of rounding, so we had to stop and review after the first round. But that was ok! It was good for me to see what they do and do not know, and now I know to come back to that to review at some point later this summer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After the place value game, it was time to move on to <strong>adding and subtracting</strong>, which the girls were very excited about, as they all felt very confident! I created another game to review these skills, but <em>first</em> wanted to make sure they understood subtraction with &#8220;borrowing&#8221; or &#8220;regrouping.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So we pulled out some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008N1BESU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008N1BESU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=magema-20&amp;linkId=336L3CO2TQAU2KN3" rel="nofollow">base ten blocks</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=magema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B008N1BESU" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />, and built numbers to review subtraction! I explained in a way similar to how <a href="http://www.reallifeathome.com/double-digit-addition-and-subtraction-with-lego-bricks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Becky did here with legos</a>. (In the past, I have also used dimes and pennies to model subtraction with borrowing, and that seemed to work well also!). If you would like the chart I used to practice, you can download it here:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Place-Value-Chart.pdf">{FREE Place Value Chart to the thousands!}</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Even though the girls were confident subtracting when they had to &#8220;borrow&#8221; or &#8220;regroup&#8221; <em>once</em>, it was much more of a challenge when they were dealing with large numbers and had to do so <em>multiple times in one problem</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If your child struggles with this as well, help them to think through each step in a similar way: one thousand = ten <em>hundreds</em>, and one hundred = ten <em>tens</em>, so what are you adding to the hundreds or tens when you &#8220;borrow,&#8221; etc.? The concept is the same, but it can get confusing for young learners when the numbers are so big.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Again, this is why we started by reviewing <strong>place value</strong>, and thinking about numbers in their <strong>expanded form</strong>. So when it&#8217;s time to subtract the following: 4123 &#8211; 568, they could think about the first number as 4000 + 100 + 20 + 3 to help them work through the &#8220;borrowing&#8221; and what&#8217;s really happening when they change the 4 in the thousands place to a 3.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-893 size-full" src="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week1-2.jpg" alt="Summer Math Camp Week1 2" width="558" height="700" srcset="https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week1-2.jpg 558w, https://mathgeekmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Summer-Math-Camp-Week1-2-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We then ended with what I thought was a fun game to continue honing those addition and subtraction skills, which I will share with you tomorrow! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So be sure to check back, because I will explain the details of the game, as well as a <strong>free printable game board</strong>!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I hope you&#8217;re having a great summer so far, and can use some of these ideas or <a href="https://mathgeekmama.com/fun-ways-to-engage-in-math-learning-this-summer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">others that I&#8217;ve posted</a> to help your kids keep up with math over the summer!</p>
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