3rd Grade Thanksgiving Math Project Plan a Dinner Party

Thanksgiving Math! Third grade math project! Project based learning with great problem solving practice! Story problems for 3rd grade math! Digital version included NOW INCLUDING direct links to Google Slides version of the resource!

Thanksgiving break is a time that many students look forward to! Whether they like eating Thanksgiving food, spending time with family, or a little time off school it is always an exciting time for students. Help your students gear up for that excitement by making a great real-world connection between Thanksgiving and math with this fun project!

In this project, students learn real recipes for popular Thanksgiving appetizers, casseroles, main dishes and desserts! They use their multiplication, division and problem-solving skills to answer questions about ingredient amounts in each recipe. They also get to choose their favorite recipes from each category to plan their own perfect Thanksgiving meal! The project includes 6 parts for a total of 23 pages.

The core of the project is aligned to standards 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.D.8, 3.OA.D.9 and 3.NBT.A.3. It includes multiplication and division single-step and multi-step problems within 100.

This project is also differentiated. Students choose how many people to invite to their dinner which becomes the factor by which they multiply other numbers. (You can give students guidance on which number to choose). It includes some bonus challenge questions throughout the core of the project and also includes two extension activities.

• Extension 1: Grocery Shopping is aligned to Mathematical Practice 1, as well as 3.OA.D.8. This extension allows students to go shopping for their ingredients based on prices in the “grocery store.” This extension requires students to use addition and subtraction skills as well as some multiplication and division but the main purpose is for students to work on their multi-step problem solving skills. Students have to read charts and reference recipes to determine the total cost. Students can choose to find the total cost for just one recipe or for their entire meal so it can be scaffolded for a variety of learners. *Teacher note: some of the prices are slightly unrealistic in this section because I kept all of the numbers whole numbers and did not use decimals or fractions. You can discuss real prices at stores with students and make connections as well as discuss why these prices might be different.
• Extension 2: Cook time is aligned to standard 3.MD.A.1. In this extension, students calculate total cook times for various recipes as well as solve elapsed time problems for cooking and baking.

This project works really well in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving break! It is a great way to keep students engaged and focused on mathematical application practice and problem solving in a way that is fun and relevant to the upcoming holiday! Students can work on this individually, with a partner, during math centers, during small group instruction and more. It also makes a great distance learning project and includes a digital version that is compatible with Google Slides and Google Classroom! If you are allowed to give homework over Thanksgiving break, this could make a great homework project as well!

If you don't have time for students to complete the entire project, you can break students into groups and have each group work on one of the parts (appetizers, casseroles, turkey and fixings, and desserts) and then put it all together for a class "Thanksgiving Dinner!"

Teacher note: for students who do not eat meat, you can eliminate the turkey from the meal by having students simply skip pages 10 and 12. If you use the digital version you can simply delete these slides from the version that you send to these students. All other recipes are vegetarian.

Resource opens as a ZIP file. A paper PDF version is included AND a Digital Version of the project is included. Students can use Microsoft Power Point to access the digital version OR Google. Students can easily enter their answers into the easy-to-use "type your answer here" boxes and save their work as a PDF to submit to their teacher! OR You can also upload the Power Point to Google Slides to have students submit their work on Google.

I hope you enjoy this fun and engaging math project!

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About the Author

Melanie Doppler--Math Coach Connection taught in a 3rd and 4th grade multi-age classroom in a Title 1 public school in Wisconsin for 3 years, 5th grade math and science for 2 years in a public school in Tennessee, and spent 1 1/2 years as a math coach. She has her BS in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is committed to creating fun and creative products that are differentiated and aligned to the math content standards! She recently published a math children's book Carnival Counting and has a podcast, The Dog Ate My Homework, for parents/guardians on how to support their children with math.

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