About the Course
This course allows students in grade 3 to continue to learn from home while using Investigations in Number, Data, and Space as a resource. Students work side by side with Dr. Deena while solidifying numeracy concepts deemed appropriate by the U.S. Common Core Standards.
Dr. Deena Amiry
Dr. Deena Amiry earned her B.S. from Georgetown University with a certificate in education and a medal for outstanding achievement in student teaching. She earned her Masters’ degree from Middlebury College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Romance Languages, where she served as a lecturer of French language and literature. Dr. Amiry worked in several private schools in the United States, including the prestigious Dalton School in New York City. At Dalton, alongside teaching responsibilities, Dr. Amiry served as Dean of the 9th grade and department chair of middle and high school foreign languages.
In Egypt, Dr. Deena Amiry co-founded and headed the International School of Egypt in New Cairo in 2009. In 2012, Dr. Deena moved on and founded the Young Scholars of Egypt (YSE) microschool, an educational program for children ages 3-18 that aims to provide students with an education that prepares them for the 21st century. In 2019, alongside ACT’s founding team, Dr. Deena brought YSE under ACT’s umbrella to create a network of connected microschools.
Course Curriculum
- Sticker Station and more (9:21)
- Capture 5 - play at home!
- Dimes and Pennies, Get to $1.00, and Capture 5 (6:56)
- Working with 100s 10s and 1s (8:41)
- Close to 100
- Practice Your Addition Facts
- Make a dollar (play at home)
- Strategy with close to 100 and more (7:19)
- More Addition and Subtraction Practice (4:30)
- Classifying Data (6:54)
- Guess my Rule and Interpreting Bar Graphs (5:51)
- How to Make An Awesome Bar Graph to Represent Your Data (4:00)
- Describing Data with Key Vocabulary (5:30)
- Making and Describing Line Plots (11:00)
- More Line Plots (Sal and Joe's apples) (7:34)
- Measurement Data (6:33)
- Comparing Measurement Data (3:58)
- Introduction to Fractions (11:18)
- Sharing One Brownie (pp. 1 - 3) (9:11)
- Making Fraction Sets
- Mini fraction quiz
- making one with fraction cards (4:08)
- Parts of a group (pp 5, 7, 8, 9) (5:04)
- sharing brownies (pp. 10 - 11) (5:40)
- equivalent fractions (3:10)
- sharing many things (15 - 17) (6:16)
- hexagon cookies (pp. 18, 19, 20) (3:53)
- True or false
- Many Ways to Make a Share (5:51)
- Sharing Dollars (5:19)
- Sharing with and without a calculator (3:49)
- My Own Sharing Problems and More (pp. 35 - 37) (7:35)
- Last Unit 7 lesson! (4:07)
- Paper Clip Problems (6:29)
- Let's Practice our Multiplication Facts!
- Related Subtraction Problems and Estimates (5:38)
- Addition Starter Problems and More (8:16)
- Around How Many Hundreds? (3:43)
- pages 34-37 (4:52)
- fraction review and more... (1:46)
- Distance Problems (2:43)
- Working with Money (4:44)
- Making Book Orders (4:55)