Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Title: Math in the Farm

Concept / Topic to teach: Practicing through combining all four math operations using 3
random numbers
Standards Addressed (TEKS):
3(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and
demonstrate mathematical understanding. The student is expected to:
(A) apply mathematics to problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace; (E)
create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas; (G)
display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments using precise mathematical
language in written or oral communication. (4) Number and operations. The student applies
mathematical process standards to develop and use strategies and methods for whole number
computations in order to solve problems with efficiency and accuracy. The student is expected
to:
(E) represent multiplication facts by using a variety of approaches such as repeated addition,
equal-sized groups, arrays, area models, equal jumps on a number line, and skip counting; (K)
solve one-step and two-step problems involving multiplication and division within 100 using
strategies based on objects; pictorial models, including arrays, area models, and equal groups;
properties of operations; or recall of facts.
Learning Objectives:
Activity #1: Students will practice their operation skills through the Crack an Egg center.
Activity #2: Students will practice their multiplication and division by playing Serpents and
Ladder game in their assigned centers.
Activity#3: Students will practice their multiplications and divisions fluency.
Essential Questions:
Activity #1: Which operation do you think youll be using the most while playing this game and
why? Explain to me what is your strategy to obtain a strike or spare? Did you notice a progress
throughout the activity? if so why? is there any skills you learned through this game?
Activity #2: What is a multiplication and how do we use it in our everyday life? What is a
division and how do we use it in our everyday life? How does multiplication and division relate
to each other?
Activity #3: How well do you know your multiplications? Which multiplication fact do you
struggle with the most? (3, 4, 7, 9?) Now that you have finished do you think you have
progressed in your division and multiplication fluency?
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills:
Activity #1: fast thinking, all four math operation knowledge (addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division)
Activity #2: Recognizing the numbers in a dice, multiplication and division, and fast thinking.
Activity#3: Knowing the multiplication and division facts

Key Vocabulary:
Activity #1
Strike
Spare
Hen
Activity #2:
Multiplication
Division
Times
Equal
Divided by
Activity#3:
Division
Multiplication
Times
Equals
By
Required Materials:
Activity #1:
3 dice
Worksheet
Markers
Scoring sheet
Activity #2:
Serpents and Ladders game
Dice
Toy figures
Paper
Pencil
Activity #3:
computer
scratch sheet of paper
Step-By-Step Procedures:
Activity #1
1- Students will get in groups of seven to play the game Crack an Egg.
2- Each students will get a worksheet with a drawing of 10 circles inside a triangular in the shape
of the bowling pins.
3- The front circle is labeled 1 and the following eggs are labeled consecutively through 10.
4- To start the game a students will roll the three dice at the same time to obtain three different
numbers and come up with equations that result in answers that are on the pins. With the purpose
of making a strike or a spare.
5-Students will have two opportunities each turn
6- Students will write down how many eggs they cracked.

7- At the end of the game students will count their total points.
Activity #2:
1- Each students will have a clean sheet of paper, pencil, and different toy figure.
2- Then everyone will start playing the game by putting their figures in the start line.
3- The first students then will roll the dice and whatever result they get they will move their
figure following the game.
4-In the square they land there will have a multiplication or division problem they will have to
resolve. They will be giving 5 mississippi to resolve. If they get it correct they will be able to
stay in that place if they do not get it correct they will have to move back from where they came.
5- The first one to reach the farm is the winner.
Activity #3:
1- Students will choose a computer
2- Students will go to the website: https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-3
3- Students will choose division fluency or multiplication fluency
4- Students will try to accurately respond to each question in the least amount of time possible.
Hook/Anticipatory Set: Earlier this week in language arts section we read a book about the
farm and now that we know our vocabulary we will implement it into math too.
1. Activity #1 Crack an Egg
2. Activity #2 Serpentes and Ladders
3. Activity #3 Fluency in Number Facts
Assessments: Activity #1: The teacher will assess the students through their ending scoring
worksheet and through walking around the room ensuring all students are practicing their
operations effectively
Activity #2: The teacher will make and informal assessment. While the students are playing the
teacher will be assessing the students if they get their correct answers of the problems.
Activity #3: The teacher will ensure that the students complete and the questions and will assess
them with the time.
Possible Connections to Other Subjects (Please elaborate):Students will be practicing
Language Arts vocabulary through the hands on activities. Students will be able to have a
knowledge of what animals live in a farm.
Blooms Taxonomy (Identify each level that will be covered in your learning activities):
Activity #1: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, and Analysing- students will use what they
already know to hit down as many hens as possible with their three given numbers from the dice.
Students will show understanding through the operations and will be able to combine different
operations to acquire desired numbers.
Activity #2: Applying- students will have to use what they know about multiplication and
division.
Activity #3: Remembering, understanding, and applying.
Bibliography: Activity #1: Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Texas Edition (7th ed.).
(2009). Allyn & Bacon.

Activity #2: Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Texas Edition (7th ed.). (2009). Allyn
& Bacon.
Activity #3: Practice Third grade math online. (n.d.). Retrieved January 31, 2016, from
https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-3
Activity #1:

Activity #2