Math-Technology Based Lesson Division: Equal Groups Related to Multiplication Lesson Summary

Miss Babcock

Students will use Smartboard manipulatives and iPad apps to explore multiplication and division. Students will be able to divide objects into equal groups. Students will be able to relate multiplication arrays to division. CCSS
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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.1

CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.A.4 Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers

CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.B.5 Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide

Students will be assessed formally through their performance on the iPad. One activity will be scored and students will report the score to the teacher.

Lesson Outline Transition to Subject Students will need to get out their number chains to take to the computer lab for the Smartboard activity. Hook Using Math in Focus digital manipulatives, students will work as a class to divide large numbers of manipulatives into equal groups. Lesson Main Ideas -How are multiplication and division related? -How do you divide items into equal groups ? -How do you use multiplication facts to relate to division facts?

Math-Technology Based Lesson Division: Equal Groups Related to Multiplication

Miss Babcock

Students will record fact families based on the problems they create on the Smartboard. Prior knowledge of multiplication will be engaged by using the same language (i.e. groups of). Lesson Relationship of multiplication and division Demonstrate that solving a division story problem can be done by either a multiplication problem with a missing number or a division problem. Review Review previously learned multiplication properties, including commutative, associative, and identity. Students will be assessed on their prior knowledge of multiplication properties through the iPad app Grade 3 Math. The activity is called Multiplication Properties. It will give students twenty questions that use property vocabulary as well as groups of and arrays. When finished, students will show their score to the teacher. Hook for Next Lesson When finished with multiplication, students will practice applying their relationship between multiplication and division using the iPad app Grade 3 Math. The activity is called Division Facts. Giving twenty questions at a time, the app uses both missing number multiplication problems and division problems to assess students. Transition to Next Subject/Activity When finished with both 3rd Grade Math app activities, students can play Beat the Computer, an app that gives students a chance to beat a computer when coming up with math fact answers. Students will practice math fact fluency until 10:30. Students will then need to put away iPads and get out their reading books for Guided Reading. Practice whole group using student book p.177. Give students two problems to do on their own whiteboards.

Reflection Overall, I believe that this lesson was an engaging review of the relationship between multiplication and division. Starting the lesson on the Smartboard and allowing students to use those manipulatives reminded them of the wording groups of. Having them use the board and write their fact families allowed them to have fun, since the Smartboard is not something that they get to use on a regular basis.

Math-Technology Based Lesson Division: Equal Groups Related to Multiplication

Miss Babcock

Students enjoyed the iPad apps as well. The apps allowed them to play fun games while allowing me to assess them. The student are used to taking quizzes and tests on paper, which is boring and not engaging for both them and for me. Students got extra practice of their math facts, of properties and of multiplication and division, and I could see how they were doing based on the scores on the apps.