Rounding Approximate Duration of Study: Entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.NO.1

Is estimation more

appropriate than

finding an exact

answer?

When should you use mental computation?

Rounding to the nearest 10

Rounding to the nearest 10

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments Round About worksheet(5) Rounding Numbers (6) Round Up

Websites for teaching skills: http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/games_to_teach_rounding_numbers.html (various games to teach rounding & flashcards)

Websites for additional practice sheets: http://www.softschools.com/math/worksheets/ rounding_numbers.jsp

Saxon Lessons: 18, 19, 31,52, 62, 72, 130-2

Number lines to 100

Rounding to the nearest 100

Rounding to the nearest 100

Vocabulary: sum, difference, product, rounding,

Addition/Subtraction Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.NO.2 How can using number relationships help me solve addition and subtraction problems for two digit and three-digit numbers?

Adding within 1000

Adding 2 and 3 digit numbers without carrying

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments Turtle Tank wkst ( addition without regrouping) 2- and 3-Digit Addition with No Regrouping wkst.(21)

Websites for teaching skills: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html (Site provides a visual for carrying using place value. Click on Base Blocks Addition.

Websites for additional practice sheets: http://www.mathfactcafe.com/build/default.aspx ( Site will allow you to build fact sheets for problems that involve carrying and borrowing)

Adding 2 and 3 digit numbers with carrying

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments Runaway Bunny wkst (addition with regrouping) Addition with Regrouping wkst. (24)

Subtracting within 1000

Subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers without regrouping

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments Funny Fish wkst (subtraction without borrowing) 2- and 3-digit subtraction with No Regrouping wkst. (22)

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html (Site provides a visual for carrying using place value. Click on Base Blocks Addition.

Websites for additional practice sheets: http://www.mathfactcafe.com/build/default.aspx ( Site will allow you to build fact pages.)

Subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers with regrouping

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments

Subtraction with Regrouping (25)

Subtraction Snake wkst (subtracting with borrowing)

Saxon Lessons: 31,33,35-2,38, 52, 53,62, 67,69,72, 76, 82,

86,89,91,92, 93, 106, 120-1

Vocabulary: sum, difference, addend, borrowing, carrying, regrouping

Approximate Duration of Study: entire year Fractions When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.NO.1 How can I use fractions in real life?

How can models be used to compute fractions with like and unlike denominators?

How do I explain the meaning of a fraction and its numerator and denominator, and use my understanding to represent and compare fractions?

Reading fractions

Understand a fraction 1/b

CUSD Monthly Assessments Saxon Assessments Shady Shapes (30) Fraction Frogs (31) Pets in Nests (32) Fraction Fun (35)

Fractions

Online powerpoint: http://www.visualfractions.com/products/worksheets.htm Website for teaching: http://www.kidsolr.com/math/fractions.html Website for additional practice: http://www.education.com/worksheets/third-grade/fractions pattern blocks (Saxon has had students have squares divided into ¼, 1/3, ½, and 1/8 already. These can be cut up to be individual pattern block.) Fractions! Tropical Fruit Fractions Third Grade Math Kit for fractions (Excellence in Ed.) Saxon Lessons: 17, 21, 24, 25-2, 37,74, 93, 94, 98,99, 111,119

3.NO.2 Fractions on number lines

Represent a fraction on a number line

Fractions on a number line Websites for teaching: http://www.kidsolr.com/math/math.html http://www.sums.co.uk/playground/n6a/playground.htm http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fractions-match-frac-line.html Saxon Lessons: 17, 21, 24, 25-2, 37,74, 93, 94, 98,99, 111,119

3.NO.3 Expressing whole numbers as fractions

Improper Fractions Write the Fraction

Website for teaching: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/fractionSet.htm

Comparing two fractions

Fish Fractions (34) Website for additional practice: http://www.education.com/worksheets/third-grade/fractions

Equivalent fractions

Hamster Halftime (33)

Saxon Lessons: 17, 21, 24, 25-2, 37,74, 93, 94, 98,99, 111,119

Vocabulary: fractions, equivalent, greater than, less than, is equal to

Approximate Duration of Study: entire year Time When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.MD.1 How can I tell time to the nearest minute?

Solve problems using the measurement of time.

Time to the minute

CUSD #1 Monthly Assessments Saxon Assessments Telling Time

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_4.html http://www.math-drills.com/search.shtml?cx=partner-pub-2856036633404156%3A8cgkwg-givw&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=time&siteurl=www.math-drills.com%2F#1470 (several elapsed time sites) http://harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr3/index_2004.html http://www.time-for-time.com/ (can generate time worksheets for extra practice) Individual clocks

How do I make an estimate for the length of time of a determined event and know if the estimate is reasonable?

Elapsed time CUSD #1 Monthly Assessments Saxon Assessments Daily Pet Plans (24) Feeding Time (25)

Saxon Lessons: 1, 4, 39, 65-2, 71

Vocabulary: digital clock, analog clock, elapsed time

Multiplication by 10 Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.NO.3 How does my knowledge about multiplication facts help me to solve problems?

Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10

Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments Puppy Surprise Worksheet

Websites for teaching skills: http://www.mathfactcafe.com/view/view.aspx?t=P&g=3 (Practice for multiplying x10 in computer flash cards)

Saxon Lessons: 45-1, 103

Vocabulary: product, factors

Liquid Volume and Masses Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.MD.2 How can I measure length, mass and capacity by using non-standard units?

Measuring Liquid Volumes

Measure Liquid Volume Estimating Liquid Volume

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments

Classroom set of containers using cups, pint, quarts, half gallons, gallons, and liter www.brainpop.com (Measuring Matter video)

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/math/volume_measurement/quiz2109.html (game to practice appropriate capacity) Worksheets to practice: Pints and Cups Quarts, Pints, and Cups Fill It Up GallonBot Related pages to Gallonbot: Gallon Quart Pint Cup Head of Gallonbot Saxon Lessons: 45-2, 55-2, 60-2, 65-2

How do you use

weight and

measurement in

your life?

Measuring Masses

Measure masses in Grams Estimating Masses in Grams

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments

Balance scale and weights in grams www.brainpop.com (Measuring Matter video) Worksheet for practice: Grams and Kilograms

How do you decide which unit of measurement to use?

Saxon Lesson: 95-2

Vocabulary: grams, kilograms, liters, cups, pints, quarts, half gallons, gallons, liters, mass, capacity, volume

Graphing Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.DM.3 How can you collect, organize, and display data?

Draw a scaled bar graph to represent data. Answer questions based on the graph.

Draw and read bar graphs.

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments Reading a Bar Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_5.html www.brainpop.com Powerpoint at this website: http://www.spsk12.net/departments/STAR/math/math_03. Blank Bar Graph Saxon Lesson: 2, 30-2, 40-2, 55-2,70-2,80-2,105-2

What kinds of questions can be answered using different data displays?

Draw a scaled pictograph to represent data. Answer questions based on the graph.

Draw and read pictographs

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments Using a Pictograph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_5.html www.brainpop.com

How do you interpret the data you have collected?

Saxon Lesson: 2, 30-2, 40-2, 55-2,70-2,80-2,105-2

Vocabulary: bar graph, pictograph, data, graph key

Measuring Lengths Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.MD.4 How do I estimate and measure?

Generate Measurement data by measuring lengths

Measuring lengths to the inch, ½ inch, and ¼ inch

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments

http://www.funbrain.com/cgibin/getskill.cgi?A1=choices&A2=meas&A3=1&A4=0&A7=0&A8=math (Use 1

st grade games to target measurement to the nearest inch, ½

inch, and ¼ inch) Worksheets for practice: How Many Inches? Measuring to the Nearest Half Inch Measuring with a ruler

How do you use measurement in your life?

Saxon Lessons: 6, 32, 54, 85-2, 114

Vocabulary: ruler, length, width, inch

Area Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.MD.5 If you could redecorate your house, how much flooring would you need to buy?

What is area and how is it measured?

Students will be able to understand concepts of area.

Students will be able to determine the area of a given shape.

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments ISAT practice problem Worksheets: “Area & Perimeter” “Area and Perimeter of Rectangles” Find the area Area Practice ISAT Wkst.

Websites to teach: http://www.aaaknow.com/geo.htm#topic12 (Go to “Area.” http://harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr3/24.html http://tulyn.com/worksheets/rectangles.htm One inch square color tiles 1” or 1 cm graph paper Website to print out additional practice or assessment:

3.MD.6 Students will be able to relate area to addition.

Students will be able to count square units or use repeated addition to figure the area of a given space.

http://www.math-drills.com/geometry.shtml http://superteacherworksheets.com/geometry.html http://cybersleuthkids.com/sleuth/Math/Math_Worksheets/Area/index.html

3.MD.7 Students will be able to relate area to multiplication.

Students will be able to calculate an area by using the formula of length X width.

Saxon Lessons: 10-2, 15-2, 63, 81, 88

Students will be able to calculate the area of an “L” shaped area.

Vocabulary: area, length, width, square units, multiply

Perimeter

Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.MD.8 What is perimeter and how is it measured?

Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures.

Students will be able to determine the perimeter of a given area.

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments Worksheets: “Area & Perimeter” “Area and Perimeter of Rectangles”

Websites for practice: http://www.aaaknow.com/geo.htm#topic18 http://tulyn.com/worksheets/rectangles.htm One inch square color tiles 1” or 1 cm graph paper Websites for additional practice pages: http://superteacherworksheets.com/geometry.html http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/Math_Worksheets/Area___Perimeter/index.shtml http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Math/Math_Worksheets/Perimeter/index.htm

Saxon Lessons: 49, 50-2, 88

Vocabulary: perimeter, length, width

2D Shapes Approximate Duration of Study: entire year When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.G.1 How can I identify and describe solid figures by describing the faces, edges, and sides?

Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Recognize different 2D shapes

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments

Helpful websites to teach: www.brainpop.com “Polygons” http://www.aaaknow.com/geo318x4.htm http://www.mathsisfun.com/shape.html tangrams

How can objects be represented and compared using geometric attributes?

Recognize that some 2D shapes share similar attributes.

Website for written practice: http://geometryworksheets.org/geometry-worksheets-for-identifying-polygons-from.html Worksheets: EZSchool.com 1 EZSchool.com 2 EZSchool.com 3

3.G.2 Divide shapes into equal areas.

CUSD #1 Common Monthly Common Assessments Saxon Math Assessments

Saxon Lessons: 7, 10-2, 20-2, 50-2, 100-2

Vocabulary: 2D shapes, quadrilaterals, rhombuses, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, trapezoids, polygons

Problem Solving

Approximate Duration of Study: When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.OA.8 How do we recognize what strategy to use for a specific problem?

Problem solving with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Solve word problems using addition and subtraction

CUSD Monthly Assessments Saxon Assessments

Problems and Solutions (55)

Word Problems with Money (56)

Websites to use with students: http://mathplayground.com/wordproblems.html Websites for example problems: http://www.rhlschool.com/math.htm http://www.mathstories.com/strategies.htm http://www.mathplayground.com/katiebegin.html Saxon Lessons: 11, 15, 22, 56, 57,73,74, 76, 93, 128, 133

Solve word problems

using multiplication and division

CUSD Monthly Assessments Saxon Assessments

“Identifying the correct problem-solving strategy(41)

“Solving word problems with multiplication and division (42) Solving word problems with multiplication and division (43)

Vocabulary: sum, difference, product, quotient, labels, some some more, some some went away

Multiplication/Division Approximate Duration of Study: When to Study: throughout the year

CCS Essential Question Concept Skills Assessments Helpful Strategies and Resources

3.OA.1 3.OA.2 3.OA.3 3.0A.4 3.OA.5 3.OA.6 3.0A.7

What are the mathematical properties that govern addition and multiplication? How would we use them? How can we use what we know about repeated subtraction, equal sharing, and forming equal groups to solve division problems?

Multiplication within 100

Division within 100 Properties of operations Determine unknown numbers in equations relating the three whole numbers

Interprets products of whole number Interprets quotients of whole numbers Solves word problems Applies properties of operations Multiply and divide fluently Model multiplication and division problems as pictures Solves multiplication problems as repeated addition Solves division problems as repeated subtraction Identifies the concepts of the commutative and associative properties

Monthly CUSD Assessments Saxon Assessments One minute time tests for Sundae Math 100 facts for Multiplication 100 facts for Division Team Jerseys (64)

Websites for student practice: www.multiplication.com http://www.thegreatmartinicompany.com/multiplication.html www.brainpop.com (movies on commutative, associative properties) Websites for additional practice sheets: http://www.mathfactcafe.com/view/view.aspx?t=P&g=3 http://www.math-drills.com http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/ http://mathplayground.com/ Saxon Lessons: 45-1, 56, 57, 70, 71,87, 116, 118, 121,126 Counters for arrays & equal groups Carl Sandburg Sundae Math

Vocabulary: repeated addition, arrays, repeated subtraction, equal groups, commutative property, associated property