Content Emphasized in Grade 3

In Everyday Mathematics children develop a broad background by learning concepts and skills in all these six content strands. The Third grade program emphasizes the following content

Number and Numeration
Counting patterns; place value; reading and writing whole numbers through 1,000,000; fractions, decimals, and integers.

Operations and Computation
Practicing multiplication and division facts extended to multi digit problems; working with properties; operations with fractions and money.

Data and Chance
Collecting, organizing, and displaying data using tables, charts and graphs; using basic probability terms.

Measurement and Reference Frames
Recording equivalent units of length; recognizing appropriate units of measure for various items; finding the areas of rectangles by counting squares; using multiplication arrays, coordinate grids, thermometers, clocks, calendars and map scales to estimate distances.

Geometry
Exploring 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes and geometric concepts

Patterns, Functions and Algebra
Finding patterns on the number grid; solving Frames and Arrows puzzles having two rules; completing variations of "What's My Rule?" Activities; exploring the relationship between multiplication and division; using parentheses in writing number models; naming missing parts of number models

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