Grade 3
Indiana Math Standard: 3.CA.8
Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule for number patterns within 100 (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table).
How Many Will There Be? The Fence
Start with one fence section: four pieces of wood. Students count, hunt for patterns, and push their predictions further and further — until they can name the step from the total alone.
How Many Ways: Add to 170
Four blanks, ten digits, one target. Students hunt for every pair of two-digit numbers that adds to 170 without repeating a digit, then work out why there are only four.
Adding and Subtracting Fruit
Use super cute fruit to introduce algebraic thinking to your young math students.
How Many Will There Be? Courtyard
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
How Many Will There Be? Crosses
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
How Many Will There Be? Squares in Squares
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
How Many Will There Be? Desks
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
How Many Will There Be? Stairs
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction
When we’re adding and subtracting, do evens make odds into evens? Do odds make evens odd? Which one has… more power!?
How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
The Game of 100
Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?