Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Geswell, & Mrs. Ginexi

Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more.

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.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 ¼ 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.

For more information see page 32 of the New York State Math Core Curriculum
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/mathstandards/mathcorepage.htm

Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions?

Password: Forgot your password?

TeacherWeb.com

Content on this site is the responsibility of the Subscriber. Additional information is available in the TeacherWeb Terms & Conditions