Playlist: 3rd Grade GATE

Fizz Buzz: Counting by 2s and 3s

A counting game where twos become “fizz” and threes become “buzz.” Easy to learn, surprisingly hard to survive.

How Many Ways: Multiply, Then Add to 22

Fill in the blanks so the expression equals exactly 22, using each digit only once. Then change 22 to 24 and watch most of the solutions disappear.

Rebus Puzzles

Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Subtraction

This calculator gets subtraction wrong the same way every time. Can your students crack its broken rule?

New Uses For A Cardboard Tube

So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?

Great Sloths – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about great sloths back into the correct order?

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

New Uses For A Pencil

So, what can a pencil be used for other than writing and drawing?

Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?

Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.

Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit subtraction.

Writing Technique: Triple Anadiplosis!

Have students mastered the art of anadiplosis: ending one sentence with the beginning of the next? Now it’s time to take it to the next level!

Writing Technique: 3 Dependent Clauses

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be writing sentences with three dependent clauses.

Writing Technique: Contrast With Synonyms

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.

Writing Technique: Opposite Adjectives

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!

Systems Are Made up of Other Systems

A clock is a system. So is a rainforest. So is your school. Once you see systems inside systems, you can’t unsee it.

Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?

What do you do with students who already get their fraction operations? Give them a contrived project about recipes or pizza slices? Make them solve annoyingly hard practice problems? Please. Here, we get students thinking in a whole new way, pondering which has more power, the numerator or denominator.

Paragraphs: Systems of Sentences

Blow up a paragraph into individual sentences. Now reassemble it. The clues hiding in each sentence will surprise you.

How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

How Many Ways: 2 Digits ÷ 1 Digit = 1 Digit

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Same Perimeter, Different Area For Rectangles

Can two rectangles have the same perimeter but… different areas!?

Undoing Multiplication With Division

Multiplication and division, natural foes, are constantly seeking to undo each other. Students will attempt to reverse the effects of multiplication by dividing once, twice, or even thrice!

New Uses for Everyday Things

Here’s how Joelle Trayers gets even her youngest students ready to think in unexpected ways.