Hello everyone! This is your place for challenging third grade extensions for your advanced kiddos. I will be posting new ones each week. Feel free to peruse and find what works best for your kids! They can email me any time with comments, questions, or ideas.
You Cubed Extensions: Here are two rich tasks from youcubed.com.
Interested in infinity, space and measurement? Then this task is for you! Route to Infinity! https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/route-to-infinity/
Real world Fraction Challenge! This tasks encourages creativity and real world application of fractions. Have fun. https://www.youcubed.org/resources/fraction-hunt-2-8-video/
Word Problem Extensions: For many of these questions you will need critical thinking skills and you want to start by making a table and or make an assumption to start with. Please email me your answers!
Mr. Shutts bought 4 identical basketballs and 5 identical volleyballs for $230. Each basketball was $8 more expensive than a volleyball. Find the cost of each basketball and each volleyball.
There are 30 questions on a math test. All questions must be answered. 5 points are awarded for every correct answer. 2 points will be deducted for a wrong answer. If Amy scores 122 points, how many questions does she answer correctly?
There were 100 adults and children altogether. An adult could consume 3 buns while 3 children could only finish one bun. If 100 buns were consumed, how many adults were there?
Lamp posts are placed at regular intervals of 30 meters along a 1,800 meter road. If the lamps posts are placed at opposite ends of the road, how many are placed along the entire road?
Write a story problem about your life during online learning during the Corona Virus Era.
Fraction Games!
Puzzle Challenges: This week I am using puzzles and open ended tasks to promote question asking and answering, wonder, and math creativity. Feel free to email me any student answers!
Task 1: Destroying Democracy (fractions, shapes, pattern, civics) https://mathpickle.com/project/democracy/
Task 2: Number One! (Fractions, primes) https://mathpickle.com/project/number-one-fractions-primes/
Task 3: Picasso's Line Puzzles (Patterns, multiplication, division, art!) https://mathpickle.com/project/picassos-line-puzzles
Fox vs. Rabbit
The future budget project is rather involved and if your child would to take it on, it could take them the next several weeks and they would likely need some support which is what I'm here for. Happy to set up a phone call or video. The fourth grade students loved this one last year!
This one coms from a Math Bafflers book which requires students to use creativity, critical thinking, and logical reasoning to perform a variety of operations and practice skills that align with state and national math standards. The book covers real-life situations requiring math skills, such as distance, liquid measures, money, time, weight, sequencing, comparison, age, area, and percentages, along with operations such as fractions, exponents, algebra, place value, and number lines. Students will make hypotheses, organize information, draw conclusions, and use syllogistic thinking. Teachers can feel confident that they are providing challenges and reinforcing important skills in a format that students enjoy!
Perimeter, logic and more!