Math

This week in math we are starting Topic 11 (Feb 20th)

Your child is learning about geometry and the shapes found around us. He or she is learning about polygons. Your child will learn to describe quadrilaterals based on their angles and sides.

This week in math we are starting Topic 10 (Jan. 31st)

Your child is continuing to learn about fractions. He or she is using models to find fractions that are the same amount. Such fractions are called equivalent fractions. Your child is using models, number lines, and number sense to compare and order fractions.

This week in math we are starting Topic 9 (Jan. 8th)

Your child is recognizing fractions found all around us and is learning that fractions are equal parts of a whole, of a set, or of a length. He or she is also learning to name fractions and to locate fractions on a number line. Seeing fractions on a number line will help your child enhance his or her number sense. This work with fractions on a number line will also serve as a basis for future work with fractions in measuring length.

This week in math we are starting Topic 7 (December 11)

Your child is learning to thing of division as sharing equally or as repeated subtraction.

EX: 36 ÷ 6=

36-6=30

30-6=24

24-6=18

18-6=12

12-6=6

6-6=0

This week in math we are starting Topic 6 (November 27th)

Your child continues to study multiplication using 3, 4, 6,7 and 8 as factors. You child uses multiplication facts he or she already knows to find multiplication facts he or she my not know.

This week we are starting Topic 5 in math (October 31)

Your child is learning to multiply 0, 1, 2, 5, 9 and 10 as factors.

We will be starting to work on multiplying fluently.

This week we are starting Topic 4 in math (October 18)

Your child is learning how to multiply. Help him or her thing of multiplication as repeated addition of the same number.

Your child is also making arrays to show multiplication.

We are starting Topic 3 this week in math (September 25)

Your child is learning to add and subtract 2- and 3-digit numbers. It is sometimes necessary to regroup or "rename" 10 ones as 1 ten, or rename 10 tens as 1 hundred. For example, when adding 124+189, you must rename twice. Your child can also draw pictures of place-value blocks to show numbers.

We are starting Topic 2 this week in math (September 11).

Your child is learning strategies to add and subtract numbers using mental math. One strategy for addition problems is to break apart numbers to make a ten. For example: 146+28= 146+4+24= 150+24=174.

One strategy for solving subtraction problems is to use compensation.

Subtract 84-38.

It is easer to subtract 40. 84-40=44

By subtracting 40, you subtracted 2 more that 38.

You must add 2 to the answer. 44+2=46, so 84-38=46

We are starting Topic 1 this week in math (August 28).

Your child is learning to read and write numbers with three and four digits.

He or she is learning to use patterns to find missing numbers on a number

line. To do all this, she or he must understand the concept of place value—

that the value of a digit depends on its place in the number.

Help your child practice using place value to read numbers and to compare

them to each other. Here is a game you can play together.