M&M Long Division

As we begin to wrap up our unit on long division, we did an activity using M&M's. 

Just a little fun math craft

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Division

Mid last week we started working on simple division with remainders (1 divisor with 2 dividends). 

Students used cuisenaire rods as a tool to visualize the math problems. I also started asking students to start thinking, " What times what gets me the closest to ___ , without going over?" I want students to start thinking of their multiplication facts/fact families to solve division  problems , for cuisenaire rods are a tool to help us out at the beginning of this unit, but not to be relied on. 

We'll continue simple division before moving on to 4th grade standard/expectation---long division , with and without remainders, with 4 dividends.

Beginning of division and fantasy

On Monday we began our new math unit of division by doing simple problems (1 divisor and 1/2 dividends  with no remainders) using cuisenaire rods. 

We started our new reading unit in Monday as well. Fantasy is our genre for the next several weeks and students will be reading chapter books by Roald Dahl. To get acquainted with this new genre, we read three picture books and decided if it was realistic or fantasy. If the book had talking animals, magical powers, or events that just could not happen, it was fantasy.