What Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know Math

1) Multiplication words (factor multiplied by factor equals product)
2) Multiplying vertically is the same as multiplying horizontally
3) Multiplication with pictures (or cubes)
4) Multiplication tables up though 9
5) Square numbers and square roots
6) Parentheses in an equation means you do whats in the parentheses first
7) Understand division and that it is an inverse operation of multiplication
8) Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division are the four operations of arithmetic
9) The answer to a division problem is called a quotient
10) The number you are dividing by is called the divisor
11) There are two ways to write division
12) Division facts up to 9
13) 0 divided by any number = 0; you cannot divide by 0 (it is an impossible number)
14) Any number divided by 1 = that number (7/1=7); any number divided by itself =1 (7/7=1)
15) Know division word problems (how many groups or how many should be in each group)
16) Fill in the blank in multiplication and division
17) Dividing things into fractions (1 pie divided into 3 parts; take 1/4 of the 24 counters)
18) Number places through the hundred thousands (and how many digits each number has)
19) Expanded form (4000+300+20+5)
20) Counting forwards and backwards from numbers in the thousands
21) Skip counting in the thousands (by 2s odds, 5s, 10)
22) How to round
23) Comparing (which is bigger?) and ordering
24) A statement that uses a < is called an inequality
25) Ordinal numbers (thirty-seconds)
26) Number line that goes in the thousands and in the negatives
27) Column addition (multiple numbers in a column)
28) Mental addition (add more than two numbers in your head by grouping or other techniques)
29) Estimating sums and differences by rounding (51+67 to 50+70)
30) Equations with more than one operation
31) Mental Subtraction
32) Adding numbers in the thousands
33) Regrouping more than once during subtraction (524-389)
34) Subtracting across zeros (4000-2896)
35) 4 digit subtraction
36) Adding and subtracting money

What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know Science Summary

1) habitats (forest, underground, desert, water)

2) the food chain

3) animals and plants need their habitats

4) dinosaurs

5) oceans and tides, ocean currents, under the ocean, humans and the ocean

6) human body (skeletal, muscular, circulatory, digestive, nervous systems)

7) taking care of your body/ sickness

8) changing states of matter

9) units of measurement

10) how long/wide/tall

11) cups/quarts/gallons

12) temperature

13) electricity (static, on and off, conductors, safety)

14) astronomy (solar system, moon, constellations, our earth, planet movements)

14) inside the earth (rocks, core, important minerals)

15) stories about famous scientists (Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison, Rachel Carson)

What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know Math Summary

1) patterns
2) addition/subtraction with objects (***+**=*****)
3) ordering (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
4) block numbers (1 square = 1; a stack of 10 squares =10; a block of 100 squares = 100)
5) adding and subtracting the block numbers
6) counting to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s
7) know what a dozen is
8) greater than/less than
9) one number more than a number; one less than, 5 less than a number is, etc
10) graphs
11) fractions
12) addition/subtraction facts to 12
13) different ways of writing an equation (stacking verses lateral)
14)addition/subtraction with dice
15) adding 3 numbers
16) difference between two numbers
17) greater than/less than equations (10-2>6; 6-4<5-1; 5+3? 6+2)
18) fact families
19) mystery number (5+ ? = 9)
20) addition/subtraction stories
21) fill in a 100s table
22) 2 digit addition/subtraction
23) recognize/add/subtract money
24) identify flat, shapes (how many sides and vertices)
25) know that when two shapes are the same size and shape they are called congruent
26) recognize a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder
27) measurement
28) calendar
29) telling time

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