What this lesson shows
A bean plant grew 1/4 inch, then 1/2 inch, then 3/4 inch: a table, the same amounts as 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75, and a spreadsheet that holds the table in rows and columns and makes a bar graph. Each week goes on a timeline. A Venn diagram sorts kids who play soccer, kids who play piano, and kids who do both.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: grew 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 inch; soccer only 4, both 2, piano only 3. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- A table, a bar graph, a timeline
- A spreadsheet: lettered columns, numbered rows
- Both: where the circles overlap
- Count each whole circle
Helping at home
Read each problem aloud. Your kid makes a table, then a bar graph whose scale counts by fourths or thirds, then a timeline with the weeks evenly spaced. For the Venn diagram, kids in both clubs go where the circles overlap. Ask how many are in each whole circle.
If your kid gets stuck
Weeks evenly spaced. Both clubs: the middle.
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.