Over the next few weeks, your child will be working with numbers from 0 to 1000. The students will represent and describe numbers such as 894 in a variety of ways and situations. Relationships among numbers and among digits in numbers will be emphasized as students rename, round, compare, and order numbers, explore number patterns, and develop number sense. Your child will also work with money to estimate, count, and write money amounts up to $10 and work with bills up to $100.Throughout this time, you and your child can practice some at-home activities such as the following:

• You and your child can play a game using two sets of number cards labelled 0 to 9. Shuffle the cards and, without looking, choose 2 cards to form a 2-digit number. Ask your child to say the number, and to write the number in expanded form using numbers and words. For example, 75 can be made from two cards numbered 7 and 5. In expanded form, it is written as 70 + 5 and in expanded form with words, it is 7 tens 5 ones. After your child has had lots of practice with 2-digit numbers, you can play the same game with 3-digit numbers, using three sets of numbered cards.
• Say aloud various 2- and 3-digit numbers and ask your child to find the cards to make the numbers.
• Choose a book with a large number of pages. Open the book to a random page and ask your child to tell you the numbers 1 greater than, 1 less than, 10 greater than, and 10 less than the page number.
• Your child can count out the amount of money required when making a purchase in a store with you.

You should also check out (and bookmark!) the following site that has grade-specific virtual math manipulatives that your child can use in a workspace. We will visit this site in-class on the whiteboard and work with the base ten blocks to represent various two-and three-digit numbers, for example. (We will, of course, be using ACTUAL base ten blocks as well in class!) This is also one of the links on my class blog.

www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html

Please remember that the students are encouraged to explore at home all of the various math links that are listed on this class blog. The games and activities at these sites are meant to help reinforce the students’ learning in a fun way! I will keep adding to the list whenever I come across or learn about new sites that I think would be good for the students to visit. If you know of any other good websites for the students, please don’t hesitate to share with me and I will add them to the lists!