✨ Grade 3 math focuses on
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Mastering multiplication and division within 100
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Building strong understanding of place value up to 10,000
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Working with fractions as numbers, including comparing and adding them
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Measuring time, length, and understanding perimeter
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Developing skills with area and interpreting data in graphs
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Exploring shapes and their attributes in more depth
Grade 3 learners enjoy math through engaging activities, problem solving, and real-life applications.
🧮 Key Math Strands & Detailed Topics
1. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
➕ Topics:
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Multiply and divide within 100 using strategies like arrays and repeated addition
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Solve word problems involving multiplication and division
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Understand the properties of operations to solve problems
🛠 Activities:
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Use counters or blocks to make arrays and model multiplication
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Create and solve story problems with groups of objects
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Play math games focused on multiplication facts
2. Number and Operations in Base Ten
🔢 Topics:
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Read, write, and compare numbers to 10,000
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Use place value understanding to round numbers and perform multi-digit addition and subtraction
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Fluently add and subtract within 1,000
🛠 Activities:
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Build numbers with place value blocks and practice rounding
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Solve addition and subtraction problems using drawings or manipulatives
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Play number comparison games
3. Number and Operations — Fractions
➗ Topics:
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Understand fractions as numbers on a number line
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Compare and order fractions with the same denominator
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Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
🛠 Activities:
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Use fraction strips or paper folding to visualize fractions
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Place fractions on a number line
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Solve simple fraction addition and subtraction problems with visuals
4. Measurement and Data
📏 Topics:
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Measure length in standard units (inches, feet, centimeters, meters)
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Understand concepts of area and perimeter
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Tell time to the nearest minute and solve elapsed time problems
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Collect and represent data with bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots
🛠 Activities:
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Measure classroom objects and calculate perimeter and area
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Practice telling time using clocks and time word problems
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Create graphs from survey data and interpret them
5. Geometry
🔺 Topics:
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Understand attributes of 2D shapes and classify them
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Explore lines, angles, and symmetry
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Partition shapes into equal parts and relate them to fractions
🛠 Activities:
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Sort shapes by attributes like number of sides or angles
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Use protractors or paper folding to explore symmetry and angles
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Color and divide shapes into equal parts to understand fractions
✅ Grade 3 Math Goals
By the end of Grade 3, students typically can:
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Multiply and divide fluently within 100
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Use place value to understand large numbers and perform operations
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Work confidently with fractions as numbers
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Measure and calculate area and perimeter
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Tell time precisely and interpret data from graphs
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Understand shape properties and geometric concepts
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