Multi-digit Multiplication

This is the third packet in my Multiplication product series. The initial two were Multiplication Facts and Multiplication Properties. Knowing the Multiplication facts and the Multiplication properties are important pre-requisites for learning multi digit multiplication.

Learning multi-digit multiplication require lots of practice. In this multi digit multiplication packet, I have included the practice sheets using different strategies, including the Standard Algorithm, Expanded Algorithm, Distributive properties, Area Model and Estimates to multiply up to a four-digit number by a one-digit number.

        

Happy Teaching!

Shimps  

Decimal Place Value

August is already here! Lazy mornings of summer holidays are just flying by and a new school year is starting soon. I will miss the summer fun, but I am more than ready to start another thrilling academic year with new goals, new challenges, and a hope to make this the best school year ever!

While thinking of upper elementary math, the first topic that comes to my mind is a refresher on the number place value system. These young minds already know the whole number place value, but it’s good to refresh the same and introduce the decimal place value too.

The origin of the Arabic number system that we use today can be traced back to the Hindu Scholars in India. This system was adopted and modified by Middle Eastern Scholars and later introduced in Europe. Without going into too much history, let's look at the place value system.

The set of 10 symbols namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 represent the numbers.

In the place value system, the position of the number defines the value of the number.

For example, if I write the number 786 then:

• 6 in 786 means 6 ones or 6
• 8 in 786 means 8 tens or 80
• 7 in 786 means 7 hundreds or 700

Now for decimals, the place value system extends to the right of ones place to represent the fractions.

For example, if I write the number 786.432 then:

• 4 in 786.432 means 4 tenths or 0.4
• 3 in 786.432 means 3 hundredths or .03
• 2 in 786.432 means 2 thousandths or .002

Check out what’s included in my Decimal Place Value Worksheets and Task Card bundle pack to learn and practice the concept of Place Value for decimals: tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.

Worksheets:

1. Identifying decimals
2. Standard, Expanded and Word Form
3. Decimals on Number Line
4. Comparing decimals
5. Relate Decimals and Fractions
6. Review Sheet

A total of 18 worksheets.

Task Cards:

Task-cards to practice the concept of place-value for decimals: tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.

A total of 24 cards along with recording and answer key.

You can grab this Decimal Place Value resource from my store HERE.

Happy to be back in action!

Shimps

Area and Perimeter

Two weeks back I wrapped up my Area and Perimeter unit. Around this time of the year, many schools are working on their Geometry and Measurement topics too!

Area and Perimeter is an interesting topic for kids. I love it when they can relate to the real-world situations like putting a fence around the garden or laying grass in it.

This packet is already available in my store but I'm a little behind on updating it on my blog. I have been a busy bee of late 😊.

The topic begins with introducing Area and Perimeter. You may start with either of the two, but I prefer introducing Perimeter first and then Area. Later, I mix it up for them to practice.

Perimeter:

Perimeter is the distance Around outside of a figure.

Area:
Area is the number of square units needed to Cover the region inside the figure.

Check out what’s included in my beginner’s worksheets and activities pack to learn and practice the concept of Area and Perimeter.

1. Measuring Perimeter
2. Measuring Area
3. Area Estimation
4. Area using Distributive Property
5. Perimeter Word Problems
6. Area Word Problems
7. Area and Perimeter Review
8. School Carnival activity for real-world application
9. Town Planning activity for a project

You can grab this area and perimeter resource from my store HERE.

Happy Teaching!

Shimps

STAAR Math Grade 3 Practice Test

STAAR is almost here. Relieve the feeling of stress by having your students do a round of practice with this full-length 3rd Grade Math STAAR Practice Test. This mock test is aligned to the current TEKS and includes a total of 46 questions.

Student answer document/Bubble sheet and the Answer Key is also included. You can grab this practice test from HERE.

As the STAAR testing is a new experience for the 3rd graders, it is always helpful to administer a dry run for them to know what to expect in the real exam setting.

Best of luck to the little ROCK STAARS!

This post was originally written on 30th April 2017 

Shimps

Fractions

The fractions topic begins with teaching how to partition shapes into equal parts. We generally start with halves and fourth and then move to thirds, fifths, sixth and so on. At this stage, kids are also introduced to the concept of numerator and denominator. Before this, they were only working with the whole numbers, and now they are presented with rational numbers.  Quite confusing for them…..hmm, not really.

Children are visual learners, they learn the best by seeing it. Teaching fraction involves drawing pictures and hand on activities. So, try to incorporate a lot of visuals to make the fraction concept more thorough.

Pizza is the most commonly used manipulative to explain the idea of fractions. Students can easily correlate the part of a whole concept with a pizza and its slice. This serves as a real-life example to develop mental images of fraction model as a part of a circle.

My favorite read aloud book on this topic is Gator Pie by Louise Mathews. Kids enjoy making predictions as the story is being read.

This is a cute story about two gators, Alvin and Alice, who find a pie and decide to share it equally with each other. Just as they are about to eat it, two more gators emerge from the forest. Then they must divide the pie among four of them. Then, more and more alligators arrive, and they must share the pie among 100 gators! Finally, Alvin and Alice sneak away with the pie.

This is a classic book and may be out of print now.  Check if this happens to be in your school or local library or you may get a used one here on Amazon.

My Fractions packet includes:

1. Fractions Vocabulary Word Cards
2. Equal and Unequal Parts cut and paste fraction activity
3. Color the shapes with Equal and Unequal Parts
4. Color the shapes with 2/3/4 Equal Parts
5. Fractions: Worksheet on writing fraction
6. Fractions: Halves, Thirds and Fourths
7. Understanding Fractions: Halves
8. Understanding Fractions: Thirds
9. Understanding Fractions: Fourths
10. Write the Fractions - Worksheet
11. Fraction wall - cut and paste activity
12. Fraction wall poster
13. Spin and color the fractions activity
14. 24 Fractions flash cards

You can grab this fractions resource from my store HERE.

Happy Teaching!

This post was originally published on February 16, 2017

Shimps

Valentine's Day Creative Writing Template

Red and Pink is the color of the month,

Love and Friendship is the theme of the month.

February is here and the valentine's day is just a week away, teachers are busy in decorating the classroom, kids are geared up for the party. Have some heart inspired craft to keep up the valentine mood.

Here are three adorable crafts to celebrate the day of love and friendship! Use these for creative writing prompts and decorate your bulletin boards. You may also send these home to give it to a friend or family.

3 Valentine's Day Projects: Owl, Butterfly and Chicken

This Valentine's Day creative writing template pack includes:

1. Template for printing onto colored paper or use it as traceable templates for construction paper. 
2. Printing instructions.
3. Pictures to help in assembly.
4. Prompt template with wide rule lines to go with the craft.

You can give the appropriate prompts based on student’s level. I have included 10 sample prompt ideas. You can grab this pack from HERE.

Happy Craftivity!

Shimps
This post was originally published on February 6, 2017

Counting Coins – Money Games

I love incorporating games into my math units. It makes learning more fun and engaging.
Here is the newest addition to my Money unit: Counting Coins – Money Games.

These Money games will make  students identify, compare and add the value of coins. Include them in your math center and give your students a variety of options to practice their money skills.

There are 3 different sets of cards bundled in this packet.

Coins War Game: 

This is same as traditional card game “War”. Instead of comparing numbers, players count the value of coins on their cards and the player with the largest amount of money wins the hand.

This set has 52 cards showing the Penny,  Nickel, Dime and Quarter with values upto $1.
Playing instructions are included.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Activities

Celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with activities and craft. These Martin Luther King, Jr. themed worksheets will keep your students engaged while learning about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

These activities are designed for a challenging, fun and meaningful introduction to this great American hero. You can purchase this pack from HERE.

Included in this pack are:

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Poster
2. Martin Luther King word search
3. I have a dream worksheet
4. Complete the passage
5. Facts about Martin Luther King, Jr.
6. Cut and paste activity
7. Martin Luther King Coloring sheet
8. Martin Luther King, Jr. Timeline cut and paste activity

Here is an interesting book for elementary age readers with great age appropriate facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. This book is a part of National Geographic Readers series and is written by Kitson Jazynka.

Click to see this on Amazon

This is my favorite read on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but the activities and crafts can be done without the book also.

Bulletin Board Idea

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
This post was originally published on 4th January 2017
Shimps

Long Division

Long Division is a step by step method for dividing the multi-digit numbers. It involves 4 basic steps: Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down, and then repeating the process.

Students often have difficulty in following the long division steps. A funny Acronym to remember these steps is:

Dirty Monkeys Smell Bad!

Long Division Steps Poster

Here is my Long Division pack to learn and practice long division with easy to follow grid assisted worksheets.

 


This pack includes worksheets for 2, 3, and 4 digit dividends with single digit divisors. A total of 30 worksheets covering different types of problems with remainders and no remainders kind.

Acronym poster and answer key is included.

Happy Teaching!

Shimps

Bob Books Sets for $5.56 and up at Amazon

Expired!

Hello Readers,

Thought of sharing some nice deals on Bob Books sets for early readers. These are currently on sale at $5.56 and up (Regularly $16.99 and up).





My First BOB Books: Pre-Reading Skills:  $5.72

Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers: $5.72

Bob Books: First Stories: $5.56

My First BOB Books: Alphabet: $5.56

Bob Books: Rhyming Words: $5.72

Grab these highly recommend books, now at a great value!

Thanks

Shimps

Rounding of numbers to the nearest 10 and 100

Hi Everyone,

Today, I am going to share some of my work on the topic Rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. Typically rounding is introduced in Grade 3. The supporting common core standard is: 

Math 3.NBT.A.1: Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. 

Rounding of a number means replacing it by another number that is approximately of equal value but making it simpler. This is an important skill for students to build on their number sense. For some students, performing rounding of numbers can be quite confusing. My motive was to make something simple, interactive and yet effective to help the little learners understand the concept of rounding.

I am a big fan of Anchor Charts which are created during the instruction of topic. These goes a long way in reinforcing the unit and students can reference it back too!

Rounding Anchor Charts:

Rounding Anchor Chart

Rounding Anchor Chart

Divisibility Rules

Divisible: When one number can be divided by another number without leaving a remainder. 

For example, 6 is divisible by 3. 

Divisibility rules of whole numbers help us to quickly determine if a number can be divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10 without doing a long division. These rules have a wide range of applications in mathematics like finding factors, determining prime versus composite numbers and simplifying fractions etc. 

Knowing the divisibility rules will prepare students to work with larger numbers. You may introduce the concept in grade 4 and as a refresher for 5th graders. 

Use these worksheets and a ready reference poster to have students familiarize and practice the divisibility rules. Included are 11 worksheets and 2 posters (both in Colored and Black & White versions) for dividing by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10.

You may also print the poster as 2 copies per page and have students stick in their notebooks for quick reference.

You can buy this Divisibility Rules pack from HERE.

Thanks

Shimps

Student Planner 2017-2018

Help your kids stay organized this school year with my newly added student planner. Comes with printables that include a front cover, 2017-2018 calendar, monthly calendar, weekly planning sheets, and the reading logs.

Let your students note down their daily homework tasks and the weekly spelling list in this easy to use week-at-a-glance planner. This will also help in keeping track of assignments, quizzes, and tests for the week.

A simple and concise single page per week format on the US letter size paper. Each weekly page features the 5 working days (Monday through Friday) which includes 3 blocks for subjects (ELAR, Math and Science/Social Studies) along with the space for weekly spelling list.

The sheets are formatted for printing on both sides of the paper and can be easily used in folders, 3-ring binder or bounded in a comb/coil binder. There are two separate non-editable pdf files (cover sheet and the planner sheets) included in a downloadable zip file. A total of 76 pages for the school calendar year Aug 2017 - July 2018.

Download the sample planner sheets to have a close look from HERE.

This planner can be purchased from my store HERE.


Happy Planning!

Shimps

Fact Fluency

Fact fluency refers to the ability to recall the four basic operations of math with ease and accuracy. A good grasp of these facts helps students to move up to more complex mathematical concepts like multi-digit addition, multi-digit subtraction, long division, and fractions.  

Studies have shown that students who have good command over basic facts find mathematics more interesting than others. The basic math facts are also included in the common core curriculum for grades 1, 2, and 3.  

Grade 1: Demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.

Grade 2: Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.

Grade 3: Fluently multiply and divide within 100.

Many teachers include basic math facts as a part of the daily morning work at school and also send those to practice at home. By the end of the school year, students develop their facts with automaticity.

As students have recently learned the basic operations, they need a ton of practice to master the fluency of these operations. I always like to have a lot of fact fluency worksheets and plan to use these over extended duration.

Here are some of my fact fluency packets.

1. Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency - within 10
2. Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency - within 20
3. Multiplication Fluency - Facts up to 12

Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency - within 10

Both the addend are up to 10.

 

Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency - within 20

 

Multiplication Fluency - Facts up to 12

A total of 35 Multiplication Facts Fluency worksheets for practicing the timed multiplication facts. Each worksheet includes a total of 60 questions in groups of 10.

Happy Teaching!

Shimps

Spring Craft and Writing Templates

A small green frog on a big brown log;

A black and yellow bee in a little green tree;

A red and yellow snake by a blue-green lake,

All sat and listened to red bird sing,

"Wake up, everybody,  It's Spring! It's Spring!"

We are enjoying the beautiful Texas spring with the sunshiny days that feels so good. The Bluebonnets have already begun to bloom and Spring is in full swing.

Get in the mood for spring with these cute 3D crafts. Use these for the spring creative writing or bulletin board decoration.

This Spring creative writing template pack includes:

1. Traceable templates for construction paper (2 versions).  
• Smaller version for creative writing
• Larger version for bulletin board 
2. Building instructions.
3. Prompt template with wide rule lines to go with the craft.

You may give the appropriate prompts based on student’s level. I have included 11 sample prompt ideas. You can grab this pack from HERE.

Enjoy the Spring!

Shimps