Math
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"Mad Minute"
“Mad Minute” is a 30 to 40 day sequence of speed drills on the basic number facts. It consists of 30 game sheets for each level. When students are having trouble with mathematics, the problem is almost always basic-facts related. If they still have to figure out their math facts, they lose confidence, which is a requirement for success in mathematics. The “Mad Minute is specifically designed to counter that unfortunate situation.
The students are given exactly one minute to complete as much of the sheet as they can, working from left to right, and from top to bottom. The object is to have them work from memory as quickly and as accurately as possible. To grade the game sheets, the teacher gives one point for each basic fact a student gets correct, up to the first incorrect or blank fact. For example, a student who worked the first ten basic facts but missed or left blank the fifth one would get four points. This encourages students to learn all the basic facts, instead of just the “easy” ones, and it emphasizes the need to avoid careless errors. “Success” is achieved for the week, based on the amount of improvement that is made from the beginning of the week until the end, not necessarily on whether or not they “finish” the test.
The point of the “Mad Minute” is to stress individual achievement in the acquisition and retention of basic math facts. Students compete primarily with themselves rather than with one another.
Each day that we do a “Mad Minute”, the student will need to correct the mistakes on the front, write the missed problems three times each on the back, and finish the test for homework that night. Please help your children achieve success by practicing their math facts with them at home, on a nightly basis.
Grade 3 Overview
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Online Math Lessons - Click here for access to video math lessons for most of the math book lessons.
"Mad Minute"
“Mad Minute” is a 30 to 40 day sequence of speed drills on the basic number facts. It consists of 30 game sheets for each level. When students are having trouble with mathematics, the problem is almost always basic-facts related. If they still have to figure out their math facts, they lose confidence, which is a requirement for success in mathematics. The “Mad Minute is specifically designed to counter that unfortunate situation.
The students are given exactly one minute to complete as much of the sheet as they can, working from left to right, and from top to bottom. The object is to have them work from memory as quickly and as accurately as possible. To grade the game sheets, the teacher gives one point for each basic fact a student gets correct, up to the first incorrect or blank fact. For example, a student who worked the first ten basic facts but missed or left blank the fifth one would get four points. This encourages students to learn all the basic facts, instead of just the “easy” ones, and it emphasizes the need to avoid careless errors. “Success” is achieved for the week, based on the amount of improvement that is made from the beginning of the week until the end, not necessarily on whether or not they “finish” the test.
The point of the “Mad Minute” is to stress individual achievement in the acquisition and retention of basic math facts. Students compete primarily with themselves rather than with one another.
Each day that we do a “Mad Minute”, the student will need to correct the mistakes on the front, write the missed problems three times each on the back, and finish the test for homework that night. Please help your children achieve success by practicing their math facts with them at home, on a nightly basis.
Grade 3 Overview
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
- Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
- Multiply and divide within 100.
- Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
- Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
- Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
- Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
- Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.