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Dear Parents;

As you are aware our new math textbooks are providing enriching mathematic experiences for our children.  We thought you would like to be aware of several of the challenging questions from our textbook (“Do You Know?”) and the connected literature resources we will be exploring throughout the school year.

·        Which is faster, a white-tailed deer or a tiger? (The World in One Day by Russell Ash)

·        How much water can a fire truck spray in one minute? (Mighty Machines – Fire Truck – and Other Emergency Machines)

·        When did monarch butterflies first appear in Hawaii? (Butterfly and Moth – Eyewitness Books)

·        How big were the giant drifts made by the blizzard of 1888? (Disaster - Catastrophes that Shook the World)

·        What is the greatest speed that anyone has reached on a bicycle? (Machines and How They Work)

·        How long can an earthworm grow to be? (Shoreline – Look Closer Books)

·        What is the length of the world’s longest tunnel? (Incredible Everything – Stephen Biesty)

·        How big is the official Olympic flag? (Flag – Eyewitness Books)

·        When was the first button making machine patented? (The Book of Buttons by Joyce Wittemore)

·        How long can a beaver hold its breath? (Nature Cross-Sections by Richard Orr)

·        How many times as fast as the first steam trains are today’s trains? (Incredible Cross-Sections by Stephen Biesty)

·        How much heavier is a person’s brain than the brain of a Stegosaurus?  (Great Dinosaur Atlas)

The Grade 3 teachers and Mrs. SnowJ