Math

Math Program Overview:

The Math Curriculum in third grade aligns with the expectations of the Iowa Core.  Through a variety of instructional strategies, including Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI), students will become proficient in the standards listed below.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
• Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
• Multiply and divide within 100.
• Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
   

Number and Operations in Base Ten

• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

 
Number and Operations - Fractions

• Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.

 
Measurement and Data

• Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Geometric measurement:  understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
• Geometric measurement:  recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
   

Geometry

• Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Standards of Mathematical Practices:

Not only must students become proficient in the content standards of the Iowa Core, but they must be able to solve problems using the following standards of mathematical practices.

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.