Math
Welcome to my Math Page
1. The entire Elementary School utilizes the instructional materials provided by New York State called "A Story of Units." The program moves students gradually through a single concept so that they will develop a deep understanding of the mathematical concept. Student materials are organized as workbooks. Each night your child will bring home the unit workbook. Included in the workbook are a double-sided "Problem Set" that we worked on together, an "Exit Ticket" that shows what your child was expected to master in the lesson, and a double-sided homework page. It is crucial that your child completes his/her nightly homework daily as each new lesson builds upon the previous day. There are support materials available at online at EngageNY, Eureka Math, and Zearn.com. There are links below to help you support your child's understanding the concepts.
2. It is imperative that you assist your child in mastering the basic facts including addition, subtraction, and multiplication. We will have daily math fact practice. Fluency in knowing basic math facts is imperative to a strong foundation in mathematical understanding. Please encourage your child to practice their math facts. If your child is struggling with these, I have several great links below that provide fun ways to practice math facts. To check out the Links, just read the description at the bottom of the page and then click to visit the site.
The 2023 New York State Mathematics Assessments
will be administered May 2- May 4
The tests will be on two of these days (not all three)
The tests will assess your child's proficiency of the Common Core Curriculum.
For more information about the NYS 3-8 tests, visit the NYS Education's website. They periodically post information regarding testing. http://www.p12.nysed.gov/assessment/ei/eigen.html
There is also information available at EngageNY (another NYS website; this one shares information about the Common Core Standards) http://engageny.org
Favorite Websites
Extra Math: shortcut to our class account. Use your pin to practice your facts.
SumDog.com is a competition-style fact practice site. You can play against the computer, kids from around the world, or your classroom friends! Check it out and log in with your username and password.
Zearn.org is a great resource fully aligned with NYS math standards and our math materials. Students practice lesson material with digital manipulatives with immediate feedback, robust remediation, clearer prompts to complete (and correct) errors, Student Notes, and a variety of fluency activities.
Math Fact Practice Games: Fun ways to keep practicing your facts!
Prodigygame.com: Fun ways to keep practicing your math skills!
ThinkingBlocks.com is a fantastic website that will allow your child to practice the RDW (Read, Draw, Write) strategy for solving word problems. It utilizes the "bar model" or "tape diagram" method of drawing to solve the word problem. Tapes and Bars are an easy, visual way for kids to understand complex math problems that you and I would often use algebra to solve. We will use this website A LOT this year.
LearnZillion.com is a great resource if you're having trouble understanding how your child is being taught this year. There are short video lessons that will explain the different methods we are incorporating that will enable your child to problem solve and think more deeply about math. "It's not the old way you and I were taught."
HOMEWORK HELP: Oakdale Joint Unified School District Website-
HOMEWORK HELP: Duane Habecker's videos Youtube
Oakdale Joint Unified School District has great helpful links to copies of the homework in both English and Spanish as well as videos to show how to answer homework problems. They also have links to Sprints and LearnZillion videos. another link to videos
This link will take you parent resources provided by Vermilion Parish. Their teachers have created answer keys and posted parent tip sheets (from Eureka Math aka EngageNY)
ADAPTEDMIND MATH Common Core Math problems and lessons to help students and parents.
This site is developed by Utah State University and is full of interactive math activities. Just type what you want to practice and it will take you to the right manipulatives!
This will take you to a Grade Four teacher's webpage that has helpful links regarding how to understanding how problems are to be solved in the Common Core style.
This site makes "flash card" problems for you to solve on the computer. You can choose easy, medium, hard, or expert and you can choose +, -, X, or divide.
One way to understand multiplication is by using arrays. This site lets you create and solve multiplication problems using the array strategy
This site generates the three numbers that make up a fact family. Your job is to sort the numbers and operation signs to make the fact families correctly.
Measure the bears and see what happens when you get it right!
This is a British website that has great activities for many math concepts! Check it out!
Practice your addition facts in this fun game.
Here is a great way to practice adding to 13. The object is to make pairs of cards that add to 13. You can only remove cards that are on a "free" layer (no other card is on top of it).
links to math games to practice various skills, from another of my favorite British friends!
This is the website I used when we were studying place value in class...remember everyone came up and found the expanded form of the three-digit numbers?
Practice addition facts in a fun way
Interactive clock (Judy Clock style)
Learnzillion.com links to mini-lessons about telling time (Module 2)
Several different interactive tools for learning about fractions