Jan 26, 2016 - In Topic C, students use the array model and familiar skip-counting strategies to solidify their understanding of multiplication and practice related facts of 2 and 3.  They become fluent enough with...

Jan 26, 2016 - Topic E shifts students from simple understanding to analyzing the relationship between multiplication and division.  Practice of both operations is combined—this time using units of 4—and a lesson...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students begin by learning to tell and write time to the nearest minute using analog and digital clocks in Topic A (3.MD.1).  They understand time as a continuous measurement through exploration with...

Jan 26, 2016 - More experienced with measurement and estimation using different units and tools, students further develop their skills by learning to round in Topic C (3.NBT.1).  They measure, and then use place...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students measure and round to solve problems in Topics D and E (3.NBT.1, 3.MD.1, 3.MD.2).  In these topics they use estimations to test the reasonableness of sums and differences precisely calculated...

Jan 26, 2016 - Topic B introduces units of 6 and 7, factors that are well suited to Level 2 skip-counting strategies and to the Level 3 distributive property strategy, already familiar from Module 1.  Students...

Jan 26, 2016 - Topic D introduces units of 9 over three days, exploring a variety of arithmetic patterns that become engaging strategies for quickly learning facts with automaticity (3.OA.3, 3.OA.7, 3.OA.9).  Nines...

Jan 26, 2016 - In Topic F, students multiply by multiples of 10 (3.NBT.3).  To solve a fact like 2 × 30, they first model the basic fact 2 × 3 on the place value chart.  Place value understanding helps them to...

Jan 26, 2016 - In Topic B, students progress from using square tile manipulatives to drawing their own area models.  Anticipating the final structure of an array, they complete rows and columns in figures such as...

Jan 26, 2016 - Topic D creates an opportunity for students to solve problems involving area (3.MD.7b).  Students decompose and/or compose composite regions into non-overlapping rectangles, find the area of each...

Jan 26, 2016 - In Topic B, students compare unit fractions and learn to build non-unit fractions with unit fractions as basic building blocks (3.NF.3d).  This parallels the understanding that the number 1 is the...