Author:
Nancy Childress
Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Level:
Upper Primary
Grade:
3
Tags:
AHL, AHL 3, AHL Math
License:
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
Language:
English
Media Formats:
Downloadable docs, Video

Education Standards

At Home Learning: How Many Elephants?

At Home Learning: How Many Elephants?

Overview

This lesson is for Grade 3 on math. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

Lesson Overview

This lesson plan, How Many Elephants, is a video based lesson for grade 3. Attached to this lesson is the YouTube video link to the video lesson and PDF files of the lesson plan and extension activities.

Learning Goals:

  • Develop conceptual understanding of division by solving story problems that involve the number of groups unknown or the size of the groups unknown (formal symbolic division notation will not be introduced until Cluster 4).
  • Understand the relationship between multiplication and division through story problems.