Become a 3rd Grade Mathematician: Full Curriculum (Semester 2 of 2)

This course is a continuation of the Semester 1 course. Students will continue to have a spiral review of the concepts taught in the first semester. This course will be very hands-on with a practical approach. Students will be engaged in projects and collaborative work to ensure they understand the 'why' and and not just the 'how' on why these concepts are important for them to learn. Students will use online manipulatives, games and other engaging activities to make the course interesting and fun. 

This course will meet 3 times a week for 14 weeks. It is important to meet frequently to reinforce and solidify concepts taught. The course will be divided into the below concepts. This course will be completed with a performance task that incorporates all concepts taught in this semester. 

The course will be broken down in the following way:

Weeks 1: Multiplication and Division Revision 

Week 2-5: Fractions 
-Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b
equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b. (3.NF.1) 
-Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line
diagram. (3.NF.2( 
-Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about
their size. (3.NF.3) 

Weeks 6-8: Collecting & Displaying data 
-Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.(3.MD.3) 
-Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units—whole numbers, halves, or quarters. (3.MD.4) 

--Students will learn the following graphs: tally graph, bar graph, pictograph and line plot. 

Week 9: Measurement 
--Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units—whole numbers, halves, or quarters. (3.MD.4) 

Weeks 10-11: Capacity and Volume 
-Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem. (3.MD.2)

Week 12: Shapes 
-Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories. (3.G.1) 
-Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction
of the whole. (3.G.2) 

Week 13: Multi-step Word Problems 
-Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding. (This standard is limited to problems posed with whole numbers and having whole number answers; students should know how to perform operations in the conventional order when there are no parentheses to specify a particular order [Order of Operations].) (3.OA.8) 

Week 14: Performance task that incorporates all concepts taught. 

Upon completion of Semester 1 and 2, you child would have gone through the entire third curriculum. 

Throughout the course, multiplication and division will be reviewed in each lesson. Word problems will be sprinkled in throughout the class. 
The beauty of this course is that I will move at the pace of the students. If a child has mastered a concept I will move on to the next topic, therefore, the course will be paced based on the needs of the child. 

Some games we will play to master these concepts:
Bingo
Uno
Kahoot
Jeopardy
and many more fun games! 

I hope to see you child in my classroom :)