Grade 3 Elementary Math
Fall Semester | ||||
Unit Title | Unit 1: Multiplication and Division Concepts
| Unit 2: Place Value to 9,999 | Unit 3: Addition and Subtraction | Unit 4: Multiplication and Division Representations and Relationships |
Time | 11 Days | 8 Days | 25 Days | 16 Days |
Understandings | Students will develop an understanding of multiplication and division of whole numbers through the use of a variety of representations. | Students will develop an understanding of composing and decomposing numbers up to 9,999, identifying base-10 relationships through the thousands place, and comparing and ordering these numbers.
| Students will develop addition and subtraction skills through estimating and solving one- and two-step problem situations that promote the use of place value, properties of operations, and different representations of the solution process.
| Students will explore the mathematical relationships within and between multiplication and division through concrete and pictorial models of equal groups, arrays, and area models.
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TEKS | 3.4D, 3.4E, 3.4H, 3.4K, 3.5B, | 3.2A, 3.2B, 3.2C, 3.2D | 3.4A, 3.4B, 3.5A, 3.5E | 3.4E, 3.4F, 3.4J, 3.4K, 3.5B, 3.5E |
TEKS Mathematical Process Standards | 3.1A, 3.1B, 3.1C, 3.1D, 3.1E, 3.1F, 3.1G | |||
Fall Semester | |||
Unit Title | Unit 5: Data Analysis | Unit 6: Representing Fractions | Unit 7: Geometry |
Time | 5 Days
| 13 Days | 8 Days |
Understandings | Students will collect, organize, represent, and summarize a categorical data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, and bar graph with scaled intervals. | Students will represent and explain fractional units, compose and decompose fractions, solve problems involving partitioning, and represent fractions as distances on a number line. | Students will develop their understanding of geometric figures by sorting and classifying two- and three-dimensional figures based on attributes using formal geometric language and explore subcategories of quadrilaterals, including rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares.
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TEKS | 3.8A, 3.8B | 3.3A, 3.3B, 3.3C, 3.3D, 3.3E, 3.6E, 3.7A | 3.6A, 3.6B |
TEKS Mathematical Process Standards | 3.1A, 3.1B, 3.1C, 3.1D, 3.1E, 3.1F, 3.1G | ||
Spring Semester | |||||
Unit Title | Unit 8: Applying Multiplication and Division
| Unit 9: Fraction Equivalencies and Comparisons | Unit 10: Two-Digit by One-Digit Multiplication | Unit 11: Area and Perimeter | Unit 12: Place Value to 100,000 |
Time | 8 Days | 9 Days
| 11 Days | 10 Days | 8 Days |
Understandings | Students will extend their understanding of multiplication and division and the mathematical relationships between these operations as they use strip diagrams and equations to represent and solve one- and two-step problems. | Students will explore the relationships between fractions, compare their sizes, and represent equivalent fractions.
| Students will use strategies, including mental math, partial products, and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties, and the standard algorithm to multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number up to 99 × 9.
| Students will determine the area of rectangles, squares, and composite figures. Students will also determine the perimeter of polygons, including determining the value of a missing side length. | Students will develop an understanding of composing and decomposing numbers up to 100,000, identifying base-10 relationships up to the hundred thousands place, and comparing and ordering these numbers. |
TEKS | 3.4K, 3.5B, 3.5E | 3.3F, 3.3G, 3.3H | 3.4G, 3.4K, 3.5B, 3.5E | 3.6C, 3.6D, 3.7B | 3.2A, 3.2B, 3.2C, 3.2D |
TEKS Mathematical Process Standards | 3.1A, 3.1B, 3.1C, 3.1D, 3.1E, 3.1F, 3.1G | ||||
Spring Semester | |||||
Unit Title | Unit 13: Time, Capacity, and Weight
| Unit 14: Personal Financial Literacy | Unit 15: Essential Operational Understandings | Unit 16: Essential Fractional Understandings | Unit 17: Measurable Attributes of Geometric Figures |
Time | 7 Days | 6 Days
| 11 Days | 7 Days | 6 Days |
Understandings | Students will determine and use appropriate customary and metric units of measure, and determine liquid volume (capacity) and weight in problem situations. Students will also solve problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals. | Students will explore how skills and education needed for jobs may impact potential income earned, as well as how scarcity or availability of resources may impact cost.
Students will identify and discuss decisions related to planned and unplanned spending, including the responsibilities and costs of spending using credit.
Students will list reasons to save and explain the benefits of saving. Students also identify decisions regarding charitable giving.
| Students will extend their understanding of operations as they use strip diagrams and equations to represent and solve one- and two-step problems, including categorical data from a graph. | Students will extend their understanding of fractions by composing and decomposing fractions, exploring the relationships between fractions, comparing their sizes, and representing equivalent fractions. | Students will determine the area of rectangles, squares, and composite figures. Students will also determine the perimeter of polygons, including determining the value of a missing side length.
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TEKS | 3.7C, 3.7D, 3.7E | 3.9A, 3.9B, 3.9C, 3.9D, 3.9E, 3.9F | 3.4A, 3.4K, 3.5A, 3.5B, 3.8B | 3.3D, 3.3F, 3.3G, 3.3H, 3.7A, | 3.6C, 3.7B |
TEKS Mathematical Process Standards | 3.1A, 3.1B, 3.1C, 3.1D, 3.1E, 3.1F, 3.1G | ||||