| 12/1 We are in full swing of learning our multiplication facts! Fact families
through the three times table should be memorized!
In order to fully be prepared for the third grade math curriculum, it is
imperative that your child know their addition and subtraction facts. It
would also be very beneficial to review addition and subtraction with
regouping.
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The NYS Mathematics Curriculum is designed to provide students with
conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and problem solving skills. It
contains five content strands: number sense and operations, algebra,
geometry, measurement, and probability and statistics. It also includes five
process strands: problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication,
connections, and representation. These strands are addressed at every grade
level through the study of specific mathematical concepts and skills. In 3rd
grade students review and extend their skills with addition and subtraction.
A major focus is the introduction of multiplication and division, mastery of
multiplication facts, and extensive practice with applications that require
the four basic operations. Time, money, graphs, geometry, and measurement
activities are interspersed through the year. Below are the areas of study
for Grade 3 mathematics.
Place Value and Money
Numbers in the hundreds, place-value patterns, comparing numbers, number
patterns
Counting money
Addition and Subtraction
Addition properties, estimating sums, estimating differences,
overestimates and underestimates
Adding and subtracting three-digit numbers, adding
three or more numbers, subtracting across zero
Equality and inequality
Time, Data, and Graphs
Time - half hour, quarter hour, minute
Organizing data, Pictographs, Bar Graphs
Multiplication Concepts and Facts
Arrays and multiplication
2, 5, 9, 10 as a factor
Multiplying with 0 and 1
3, 4, 6, 7, 8 as a factor
Patterns, practicing multiplication facts
Division Concepts and Facts
Division as sharing, repeated subtraction
Dividing with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Dividing with 0 and 1
Division patterns
Geometry
Solids and shapes
Polygons, triangles, quadrilaterals
Congruence, symmetry
Fractions and Measurement
Equal parts of a whole, naming fractional parts
Equivalent fractions, fractions on a number line, comparing and ordering
fractions
Estimating fractional amounts, fractional parts of a set
Length feet, inches, yards, miles, measuring to the nearest ½ and Ό inch
Capacity, weight
Multiplying and Dividing Larger Numbers
Multiplication and division patterns, estimating products and quotients
Arrays, breaking numbers apart to multiply and divide
Assessment: All students in grade 3 take the NYS Math Assessment in March.
They also take WCSD math assessments in January and June. Teacher-created
tests and performance activities are used to assess students level of
mastery throughout the year.
Textbook: New York Mathematics, Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley, Copyright 2008
For more information see page 32 of the New York State Math Core Curriculum
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/mathstandards/mathcorepage.htm
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