Third Grade MathLand Program

Number Sense
  • Use appropriate math vocabulary
  • Estimate to solve problems
  • Know basic facts and computation algorithms
  • Understand our numeration system by relating, counting and grouping
  • Read, write and identify place value
  • Count, compare and order whole numbers and fractions
  • Use mental math
  • Use multiple strategies to solve problems
  • Understand number theory concepts, such as odd and even numbers
  • Write and solve a story problem involving operations
  • Develop multiple approaches for working with numbers
  • Use a calculator in appropriate situations
  • Recognize the patterns and relationship between decimal numbers and money
  • Solve problems by selecting the appropriate operation
  • Explore discrete math concepts such as the commutative property
  • Explore division
  • Identify and compare fractional parts
  • Round to solve problems
  • Explore discrete math by determining and manipulating combinations and arrangements of objects
  • Explore and model the basic concepts of fractions, including equivalent fractions and operations

    Algebraic Thinking

  • Identify and extend geometric and numerical patterns
  • Know fact families
  • Write an equation that represents a problem
  • Use a hundred chart to skip count and recognize the pattern for multiplication
  • Identify and determine the missing component in an equation
  • Write an equation or rule that represents a numerical or geometric relationship
  • Understand relationship between operations
  • Use concrete materials and charts to explore mathematical relaionships and language

    Geometry and Measurement

  • Determine elapsed time
  • Compute with time
  • Use a calendar to solve problems
  • Identify, visualize, construct and draw geometric gifures
  • Know the value of coins and compute with money
  • Explore and apply conversions
  • Compute and compare measurements
  • Sort by attributes
  • Use drawings to develop spatial sense
  • Explore the concept of linear and distance measurement
  • Recognize and appreciate geometry in our world
  • Explore area by tiling
  • Predict how changing the measure of the sides of a figure affects its dimensions
  • Find, explain and compare area and perimeter and multiplication and area
  • Use customary and metric units to measure, order and compare capacity
  • Select and use the appropriate measurements units to report measurement data
  • Identfy properties of 2 and 3-dimensional sgaoes
  • Copy, extend and make patterns on the plane
  • Recognize and understand transformations (rotations, slides, flips and turns)
  • Use paper folding and tangrams to develop spatial sense
  • Rocognize the relationship between 2-dimensional figures and 3-dimensional shapes
  • Describe and draw lines of symmetry
  • Use geometic ideas to develop numerical and measurement ideas
  • Make scale drawings

    Data Analysis: Statistics and Probability

  • Read and use data to predict patterns of outcome
  • Understand the relationship between data and outcome
  • Conduct a survey
  • Use maps to explore networks and solve problems
  • Decide whether a game is fair
  • Make a plan to collect, record and interpret data
  • Use a spinner to play fair games
  • Gather, sort, display and interpret data in charts, tables, diagrams and graphs
  • Use tally marks to collect, organize and describe data
  • Explore probability with concrete materials to explore and describe games of chance
  • Explore the possibile outcomes of an experiment
  • Make predictions based on experience with probability
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