3rd - 5th Grade: Math

Choose two or three activities from this list:

• Create word problems
• Practice showing math in many ways

Books

Grade 3

• Whole-y Cow: Fractions Are Fun! - Review fractions with your child by reading about them! Can your child name all the fractions in the story?

Grade 4

• A Remainder of One Ask your child to write several division equations that have a remainder of 1.

Grade 5

• Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin Ask your child about multiplying fractions less than 1. What happens? Why?

Songs

Grade 3

• Multiples of 5: Skip Count by 5 and Multiply
• Multiples of 6: Skip Count by 6 and Multiply
• Multiples of 7: Skip Count by 7 and Multiply
• Multiples of 8: Skip Count by 8 and Multiply
• Fractions: Fractions on a Number Line
• Multiplicación (in Spanish)
• Juegos de Multiplicar (in Spanish)

Grade 4

• Prime & Composite Numbers: Prime, Square, Composite Song
• Understanding Same Value: Equivalent Fractions Song
• Angle Measures: Right, Acute, Obtuse Angles Song
• Types of Lines: Perpendicular, Parallel, Intersecting Lines Song
• Skip Counting by 12 (Multiplication): Multiples of 12 Song

Grade 5

• Writing and Interpreting Numerical Expressions Song
• Understanding Decimals: Ordering Decimals Song
• Measurement: Volume of Cubes Song

Videos

Grade 3

• Video with a simple song to explain how to represent fractions on a number line: Fractions on a Number Line Song
• Place Value Cups: a short video showing how to use paper cups to create a place value practice tool Fun Place Value Activity Using Cups
• Aprendiendo a multiplicar (in Spanish)
• ¿Qué son los Arreglos Rectangulares? (in Spanish)
• El Doble y la Mitad de un Número (in Spanish)

Grade 4

• Short (2 minute / easy to follow) video on Division - Partial Quotients
• Expanded Notation of a Number: Math for Kids video

Grade 5

• Multiplication of Decimals: short video shows how to use Base 10 Blocks to model multiplication of decimals, including reunitizing the whole.
• How to Multiply Mixed Numbers (Area Model)
• Fractions are Division Math Antics - Fractions Are Division
• Connecting Fractions and Division Connecting Fractions and Division

Online Games

Grade 3 

• Addition Game - Deep Sea Duel - available in English & Spanish
• Multiplication Practice - Equal Groups - Multiplication Mine
• Multiplying by Breaking Apart - Bunny Times - Area Models
• Strategy Game with Factors and Products (Multiplication) - Product Game
• Fractions on Number Lines - Fraction Game
• Addition or Multiplication Practice - Kakooma
• Make 24 Game - 4Nums Game or Make 24
• Balanced Hangers, Who am I?, Mystery Grid - Solve Me Puzzles
• Matching - Concentration Game - Fractions, Decimals, Multiplication Facts
• Exploring Shapes: Interactive Quadrilaterals
• Number Conundrum - Whole Number Addition and Subtraction problems are used to fill a pyramid puzzle
• Solve addition and subtraction problems with the Number Pieces app (Multilingual)
• Candy Cashier - Skip count with money to buy candy for monsters.
• Money Pieces app for iPad, Chrome, and Web - Visualize and understand money values and relationships. (Multilingual)
• Math Clock - options for digital and analog and options for “running” the clock or jumping by increments of time. (Multilingual)
• This elapsed Time interactive activity gives students practice with elapsed time on digital and analog clocks.
• This interactive online clock can be used by students to practice seeing the relationship between time on an analog and digital clock. 
• This interactive clock from Toy Theater allows students to learn about hours and minutes by dragging the movable hands on the analog clock with each minute marked on an outer ring. Options to include a digital clock and to remove the minute or hour hands to isolate the hands.

The Geoboard app is a tool for creating virtual shapes on a geoboard. Students “stretch” bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons. (Multilingual)

• The MathPlayground Geoboard is a similar tool with a larger surface. (Multilingual)

Grade 4

• Factorize - Visually explore factors with rectangular arrays.
• Multiply 2 by 2 digit numbers game - online board game
• Fraction game with moving number lines to get the sum Fraction Track
• Create equivalent fractions with Equivalent Fractions
• Fraction relationships: ways of combining fractions Fraction Game
• Product Game - exercises your skill with factors and multiples
• Multiplication Blocks - Practice Single digit multiplication fluency. 
• Partial Product Finder - for visualizing multi-digit whole number multiplication.
• Number Lines (with decimals) Zoomable Number Line
• Decimals Conundrums Number Conundrum Decimals
• Digital base ten blocks - Number Pieces (Multilingual)
• Multiplication Square Jigsaw reinforces student’s awareness and understanding of multiplication sequences.

Grade 5

• Number Lines (with decimals) Zoomable Number Line
• Decimals Conundrums Number Conundrum Decimals
• Digital base ten blocks - Number Pieces (Multilingual)
• Fraction Game: This applet allows students to individually practice working with equivalent fractions and ways of combining fractions. 
• Number Line helps students visualize number sequences and illustrate strategies for counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting. 
• The Illuminations website has an interactive called Area of Rectangles that students can manipulate to see the relationship between a rectangle’s area and side length, including decimal lengths.
• FractionApp - Fractions (Multilingual)
• Who wants to be a Millionaire Game - Multiplying Fractions Millionaire Game
• These puzzles give students opportunities to classify polygons using interactive Venn diagrams.