Math, Math, Math!!!
Wow! Normally, we try to do our school work in the morning and
field trips in the afternoon; or, if we need to leave out early in the morning,
we take our school with for the trip and complete the rest the day before
or the day after. We have been a bit behind in the last few weeks because of
our trip home to Iowa. We’ve also been working day and night because of the
level of math that we are on. The kids are learning how to multiply multiple
digits together such as 467 x 234. I just learned of a different method than
how I was teaching the kids called lattice multiplication. Our curriculum didn’t
explain how to do this and I didn’t know that an easier method existed. At Cool
Math for Kids, they explain in detail how to apply this type of math. After
reading the first page, I didn’t think I was going to understand it to be able to
teach it to the kids! *smile* After the
second page, I realized how VERY EASY this method is after applying the
concept! Here is the link: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/times-tables/times-tables-lesson-lattice-multiplication-1.html
. Thank you Aunt Sonya for showing me
this! I actually learned something from my sister?! LOL! Just kidding sis!
I found some links to blank lattice pages so that I could apply
this to our math problems in our curriculum. They have different worksheets
whether you need to 3 digits by 2 digits, 3 digits by 3 digits, etc.! Here’s the link: http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/lattice.html
Hope your family
has as much fun as we are having with math! (Well sometimes! LOL!!!)
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