Third Grade Curriculum

Mathematics
Math Series: Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley

Chapter1: Data, Graphs, and Facts Review

• Reading Graphs and Facts Review
  Reading pictographs, bar and line graphs
• Making Graphs and Facts Review
  Organizing data, making pictographs and bar graphs

Chapter2: Place Value and Time

• Understanding Place Value
  Place value through hundreds, thousands and hundred thousands
• Building Number Sense
  Comparing and ordering numbers, rounding to tens and hundreds
• Understanding Time
  Time to the nearest five minutes, half and quarter hour, elapsed time, ordinal numbers and the calendar

Chapter3: Adding Whole Numbers and Money

• Developing Addition Number Sense
  Exploring addition patterns and adding on a hundred chard
• Adding Greater Numbers and Money
  Adding 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers and column addition
• Extending Addition
  Mental math, counting coins, using dollars and cents, making change, adding money and front-end estimation

Chapter 4: Subtracting Whole Numbers and Money

• Developing Subtraction Number Sense
  Exploring subtraction patters, subtracting on a hundred chart, estimating difference and exploring regrouping
• Subtracting Greater Numbers and Money
  Subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers, subtracting with 2 regroupings, subtracting across 0
• Extending Subtraction
  Subtracting 4 digit numbers, mental math, subtracting money

Chapter 5: Multiplication Concepts and Facts

• Understanding Multiplication
  Exploring equal groups, writing multiplication sentences and exploring multiplication stories
• Multiplying with 0, 1, 2, 5, and 9 as Factors
  2, 5, 0, 1, and 9 as a factor

Chapter 6: More Multiplication Facts

• Multiplying with 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 as Factors
  3 as a factor using know facts, 4 as a factor doubling, 6 as a factor using known facts, 7 and 8 as factors
• Extending Multiplication
  Exploring patterns on a hundred chart and fact table, 10, 11, and 12 as factors, and multiplying with 3 factors

Chapter 7: Division Concepts and Facts

• Understanding Division
  Exploring division as sharing, repeated subtraction and stories
• Using Multiplication Facts to Find Division Facts
  Dividing by 2, 5, 3, 4, 0 and 1
• Finding more Division Facts
  Dividing by 6, 7, 8 and 9, exploring even and odd numbers

Chapter 8: Geometry

• Shapes and Solids
  Exploring solids, shapes, lines, line segments, angles, slides, flips, turns, and symmetry
• Perimeter, Area, and Volume
  Exploring perimeter, area, volume, and coordinate grids

Chapter 9: Multiplying and Dividing

• Developing Multiplication Number Sense
  Exploring multiplying tens, multiplication patterns, and multiplication with arrays, estimating products
• Multiplying by 1-digit factors
  Multiplying partial products, 2 and 3-digit numbers, money, and mental math
• Dividing with 1-Digit Divisors
  Exploring division patterns, estimating quotients, division with remainders, and dividing

Chapter 10: Fractions and Customary Linear Measurement

• Understanding Fractions
  Exploring Equal Parts, naming and writing fractions, exploring equivalent, comparing and ordering fractions, estimating fractional amounts
• Extending Fraction Concepts
  Fractions and sets, exploring finding a fraction of a number, mixed numbers, exploring adding and subtracting fractions
• Customary Linear Measurement
  Exploring length, measuring to the nearest 1/2 and 1/4 inch, exploring length in feet, inches, yards and miles

Chapter 11: Decimals and metric Linear Measurement

• Understanding Decimals
  Exploring tenths, hundredths, adding and subtracting decimals, connecting decimals and money
• Metric Linear Measurement
  Exploring centimeters, decimeters, meters and kilometers

Chapter 12: Measurement and Probability

• Capacity, Weight, and Temperature
  Exploring capacity customary units, measuring capacity metric units, exploring weight customary units, grams, kilograms and temperature
• Probability
  Exploring likely and unlikely, predictions, probability, fair and unfair

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