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3rd Grade Math Overview

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Third Grade Math

Instructor: Jamie Gunby

The third grade math curriculum strikes a balance of skill acquisition, mental math, problem solving, and skill application. Learning multiplication facts is the foundation for being successful in any math class down the road and is an example of the importance of skill acquisition. Students work on multiplication facts all year long and practice using games, drills, and timed tests. The ultimate goal is to complete 100 facts in 3 minutes. Students build on that foundation as they move into multiplying and dividing larger numbers. Mental math is used everyday as students develop a variety of skills during calendar math activities. Students are engaged in higher level thinking processes during this activity as money concepts, multiplication and division concepts, fractions, problem solving, and patterning concepts are incorporated. Several of our math units are integrated with other areas of our curriculum. For example, when students study local communities in social studies, third graders apply their knowledge of number sense and place value by creating a population project. While exploring a unit on money concepts, students hone their skills of giving change by hosting a school wide bake sale, where all proceeds earned go to Fifth Street Ministry. Fifth Street Ministry is a local homeless shelter where our third graders serve lunch every month. The application of skills continues as students take a trip to the grocery store to buy items needed for the shelter. Measurement is a concept easily learned in a textbook but we take it a step further. While studying pioneers moving out west in social studies class, third graders use what they learned in their measurement unit to build a model pioneer house. Finally, when the math curriculum focuses on collecting data and using graphs, students compile information to integrate with unit on immigration. Students create pie charts and bar graphs to showcase data collected about groups of immigrants and immigration trends. Students leave third grade with a greater understanding of math concepts and how they relate to their everyday world.

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