Help me give my students hands on math experience with containers of different volumes, weight in different gram increments and containers to store everything.
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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
My students in Third grade may help their parents shop for food but they have limited understanding of the volume of containers or the weight of items they buy. Most of the time math is mental and we use manipulatives to help students remember things. Learning about volume and weight, however, requires that we start with the visual. Students need to experience and try out things in order to begin to understand the meaning of the numbers.
Volume and weight is my favorite math unit because the students get so excited and amazed when they compare measurements.
I usually start this unit by taking my class of up to 22 students outside to our garden yard where we have a sink and tables to use for our explorations. We then take some time moving liquid from one container to the other and in groups of 4 or 5 students discuss what they understand about the changes in volume. We then come together and make observations about containers of different shapes that have the same volume. Every year I collect containers of diffent sizes to help students understand how much liquid fits into each one. However, because they are all different shapes the comparisons are made more difficult to understand. Having containers that are all the same shape and with measuring lines will help make my teaching so much easier. The same is true for weights. We have on gram cubes that we use for counting and that helps us begin the conversation about weight. However, when comparing items of differents weights we are limited to very light items. A stapler for example will cause our scales to overflow and we have no way of accurately measuring the weight without an electric scale. Help us understand these math concepts.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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