As we get more familiar with routines and procedures, some questions have come up about the homework sheet and expectations, and what students and families will see in the Math Folder in the student binders.
1. When is the Homework due? Homework is sent home on Mondays and is due back on Fridays. To promote agency and independence, I will not be checking homework daily. I recognize that students and families have busy schedules, and may need to create their own schedule to complete the weekly homework. My hope would be that there would be time set aside each evening for fact fluency and concept practice, but I understand that lives are busy. Homework should not take longer than 10-15 minutes for math. 2. What are these papers in my child's Math folder? Any unfiinished work, including math homework, is in your child's math folder. I do not expect unfinished school worksheets to be completed at home. Feel free to look through the work to get an understanding of what we're doing, but I will provide time during math to complete this work. The folder is just a safe place to keep work to be completed. I will work with your child in a small group or individually to ensure that he or she understands the concepts. I am keeping all completed worksheets,, exit slips (daily checks for understanding), reviews, or other unit work in a folder here at school and will send home that work at the end of each unit after the post test is given.. Children have access here to help them review before the end of each unit. 3. What facts should my child be practicing daily? Students are working on fact fluency skills in small groups during Flex times on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each student progresses at different rates As always, students are very excited to begin work on multiplication and division facts. If your child is still working on meeting the addition or subtraction goal of 35/40 facts, then homework fact practice should reflect that. I have spoken with those students who have met the addition and subtraction goals to let them know that they may include multiplication and division facts in daily homework.
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In this first unit, third graders will focus on and review a variety of place value concepts including addition and subtraction strategies, rounding, word problems involving money, and number comparisons (<, >, =). Students will also solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons. Rounding to the nearest 10 or 100 is an important new concept which requires a solid place value understanding. Solving two-step word problems using the four operations and representing these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity also helps students to assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies. Third graders will also use $ and ¢ symbols to solve practical money problems.
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