Interactive Whiteboard Activity

Activity Title: Water Drops in Cooking Pots

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade Level: Third
Activity Summary: Students will determine how many drops are collected in seven pots when two
children collect rain from their dripping grain gutters. In doing this, the students will be practicing
and perfecting their multiplication facts. The goal of this lesson in particular is to learn the seven
times table, but it could be modified to teach the other times tables as well.
Learning Objective: Given three one-digit multiplication problems, the student will drag and drop
the correct answer from a word bank to the blank space under each problem with at least 66.7%
accuracy.
Grade Level Expectation:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.1: Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 7 as
the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in
which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 7.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.3: Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word
problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using
drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
State Performance Indicators:
1. Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 7 as the total number of objects in
5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of
objects can be expressed as 5 7.
2. Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving
equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and
equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Credits: Grade level expectations- http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/3/OA/
State performance indicators- http://www.tn.gov/education/standards/math/math3rd.pdf
Raincloud image- http://www.clipartbest.com/cliparts/LiK/q7A/LiKq7AXia.png
Umbrella image- http://www.roofingparkcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1526.png
Pot imagehttp://www.librausa.com/ccontent/bdov2/products/fullsize_product_images/18880132970.jpg

It rained for twelve days straight at Kate and Stevens house. Each day, Kate
and Steven placed 7 cooking pots underneath their rain gutter to measure the
rainfall.
Example: On the first day, they watched 3 drops fall in each pot. How many
raindrops fell in all of the pots combined?

7 Pots
x 3 Drops per pot
21 Drops in all

For the next eleven days, Kate and Steven counted the drops each day and
found that a different number of drops fell in each pot each day. Drag and drop
your answer to the problems below from the number bank under the yellow
line.

35

7
x 6

7
x 2

7
x 10

7
x 1

7
x 8

7
x 5

18 21 56 77

7
x 12

7
x 7

7
x 9

7 7
7
x 4
x 11

45 28 68 14 42 82 70 49 84 7 63