Chapter 2 – Activities

Create a Place Value Bracelet

The Place Value Bracelet craft requires cereal such as Fruit Loops and yarn or pipe cleaners as a tangable visual to calculate place value.

Tessellation – M C Escher

This resource features the artist MC Escher and his work in the area of tessellations. Students will see example patterns as well as steps to create their own pieces of art.

Sun Earth Moon Labs

Visual and kinesthetic learners have a choice of creating sun earth moon labs in this resource.

Jeopardy Labs Third Grade Subtraction

This online Jeopardy game allows students to practice math skills particularly in the area of subtraction as it pertains to word problems.

Tutorial: How to Play Backgammon

Students will use pattern and cancelling skills as they play backgammon. This video will teach them how to play.

Online Shape Pattern Game

This online art game allows students to replicate shadow images using known shapes or to design new images.

Craft: Design a Winter Wonderland Array

This challenging project involves a combination of math and art to use arrays in creative multiplication and division problems.

 

Chapter 2 – Videos

Grade 3 Math: How to Use a Multiplication Table

This video reviews how to use a multiplication table to solve multiplication and division problems.

Repeating Patterns in Nature and Scripture

This Christian video gives glory to God for creating patterns such as fractals in nature and in Scripture..