Hands-On Standards® Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 3

Hands-On Standards Math Grade 3 Teacher Resource Guide is the perfect supplement for your core curriculum with targeted, hands-on instruction. Includes 40 lessons focusing on Multiplication and Division, Identify and Write Fractions, Comparing Fractions, Telling Time, Finding Area, and much more. Each hands-on, standards-focused lesson uses one or more of the following most common manipulatives: Deluxe Rainbow Fraction® Circles, Base Ten Blocks, Centimeter Cubes, Color Tiles, Time Interval Rods and Work Mats, Fraction Tower® Cubes, Fraction Number Lines, Geoboards, Three Bear Family® Counters, Pattern Blocks, Two-Color Counters, and Write-On/Wipe-Off Student Clocks.

Hands-On Standards Math Grade 3 Teacher Resource Guide integrates mathematical practice and content standards for all domains into engaging hands-on activities. Reproducible student pages help students build understanding of math concepts. Full-color photographs walk you through implementing each lesson. Easy-to-follow lesson plans include ideas to help you differentiate instruction.

TOPICS

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Multiplying with arrays
• Multiplying by five
• Exploring multiplication and division
• Commutative property of multiplication
• Associative property of addition
• Distributive property

• Estimating the sum or difference
• Adding and subtracting
• Multiply by ten
• Multiplying with multiples of ten

Number and Operations–Fractions

• Identify and write fractions
• Fractions and equivalent fractions on a number line
• Proper fractions on a number line
• Model equivalent fractions
• Whole numbers as fractions
• Comparing fractions

Measurement and Data

• Telling time and elapsed time
• Add intervals of time
• Finding times after and before
• Measure weight
• Pictographs and bar graphs
• Finding area of squares, rectangles, and irregular figures
• Building and exploring perimeter

Geometry

• Categorizing and partitioning shapes