Measurement of Time

Here is a great site that deals with the measurement of time at the grade three level in the subject area of math. This site deals with converting weeks to days, converting days to hours, converting hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, etc. And it also deals with adding hours such as one hour or half an hour. This is a website that allows for your students to practice their math skills, as at the bottom of each link, there is a practice section where you can practice your math skills. It also gives you hints and tips on how to solve for the problem. For example, when converting days from weeks they give the tip to multiply the number of weeks by 7. Hopefully, after enough practice the students won't need those tips it will just come automatically, but it is still there for them to reference to it if they are stuck on a specific question!

I would incorporate this website about time into my class by first giving a few introductory lessons at the students desks about the measurement of time. We would look at our class clock and use that for an example, and would work on math sheets at our desks to practice our time skills. However, instead of making them constantly be at their desk working on math, why not get them onto the computers playing math skill games! This way, there is a variety of methods provided to the students for them to practice their math skills, so hopefully they don't get bored and frustrated! To wrap up the lesson I would not only have them access one area of the time measurement website but several areas so they can cover all of the skills that we practiced in class. I would use this site as a math centre, instead of having them work on math sheets at their desks I would have them access this site to practice their skills and I would closely monitor them to see what level they were at and the progress they had made within this math lesson.

I feel that this site would benefit my students learning because it is a challenging and fun site for them to practice their math skills. As I mentioned before, by providing a variety of methods for them to practice their math skills whether it is through flash cards, a math work sheet at their desk or practicing them on this website, they hopefully will not get bored because there are so many ways they can practice their skills! Math is a subject that I was not too fond of growing up, however I think that if my teacher would have provided fun and educational sites such as these for us to use for math I would have been much more engaged and excited about learning the material. By allowing my students to access and practice their skills on this site, not only are they enhancing their knowledge about the measurement of time, but they are also getting more comfortable with the use of computers and other forms of technology at the grade three level!