Math Creation Station

Students in grade three must be able to determine the appropriate operation needed to represent and solve story problems. Math Practice #2 also asks them to write story problems to match different expressions and problem types as they contextualize the mathematics. This card sort is something you might typically do with paper, scissors and glue. Google Draw allows students to use clicking and dragging and typing into cells to complete this activity in a more efficient way. It also allows fo

This problem set is based on the problem types outlined for grade three in the Common Core Standards. They involve Equal Groups and Arrays/Area with varied unknowns (Unknown Product and Group Size Unknown). The workspace provided for students also emphasizes the importance of using a variety of representations. They include a mix of: “groups of” pictures, arrays, t-tables, equations and solution sentences relating back to the story. The ten problems can either be used with all students, in t

Students in Grade Three will begin to explore the role of the distributive property when finding area. They don’t necessarily need to use the term, however, due to the need for precise vocabulary in Math Practice #6, it makes sense to use it a bit. This lesson will focus on the use of the “array within an array” model to make this clear to students. Before students work with partners or individually on the practice sheets in this set, it makes sense to begin with square tiles on their desk

Scoot is a great way to have students develop procedural fluency with a topic, and the resulting work provides invaluable formative assessment data that can inform future instruction! Not to mention, it is a lot of fun! The Scoot Game provided has 12 “grade level” cards and a recording sheet with 12 spaces to record student responses as well as 12 “modified” cards with a modified recording sheet to scaffold for struggling students. The focus of both sets is on repeated addition, “groups of”,