Third Grade Math with Confidence Student Workbook Part B
The Third Grade Math with Confidence Student Workbook Part B coordinates with the Instructor Guide and Student Workbook Part A.
- The Instructor Guide functions as the core of the program. It includes conversational and hands-on activities and games that teach the key skills and concepts.
- The two Student Workbooks (Part A and Part B ) provide lesson activities, practice, and review. Workbook Part A covers Units 1-8, and Workbook Part B covers Units 9-16.
Third Grade Math with Confidence covers everything your child needs to learn in third grade. Students learn to…
- Read, write, compare, and understand place value in numbers to 10,000
- Add and subtract numbers to 10,000
- Master multiplication facts (up to 10 times 10) and division facts (up to 100 divided by 10)
- Multiply one-digit numbers by multiples of 10
- Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve word problems (including two-step word problems)
- Find the area and perimeter of rectangles, squares, and shapes composed of rectangles
- Read, write, and compare fractions
- Identify simple equivalent fractions and add and subtract fractions with the like denominators
- Solve measurement problems involving elapsed time, length, weight, and capacity
- Identify right angles, rectangles, squares, and rhombuses
- Identify faces, edges, and vertices in 3-D shapes
Three Workbook Pages Per Lesson
Every regular lesson now includes a Lesson Activities page in the workbook (in addition to Practice and Review). These pages provide visual aids, practice exercises, and game boards all in one place to streamline and simplify your teaching. The Lesson Activities pages are designed for you to complete with your child during your hands-on teaching time (and not meant for your child to complete independently.)
For example, in lesson 2.1, you’ll use the scripted lesson in the Instructor Guide and this Lesson Activities page to introduce the concept of multiplication and record multiplication equations to match “cookie orders” that you’ll model with counters.
Then, your child will then independently practice writing multiplication equations on the Practice page and review skills like place-value, fractions, money, and addition on the Review page.
The enrichment lesson at the end of each unit now includes a two-page Unit Wrap-Up. You can use the Unit Wrap-Ups to casually review the unit, or you can use them as tests to assess your child’s progress more formally. If you live in a state that requires a portfolio, they’re a great way to show your child’s learning and progress.
Author Kate Snow’s placement help for Kindergarten Math with Confidence:
Children are ready to start Third Grade Math with Confidence if they can:
- Count to 1,000 by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s.
- Read, write, and compare 3-digit numbers.
- Understand place-value in 3-digit numbers
- Know the addition and subtraction facts mostly be heart. (Children should be able to recall the answers to most within 3 seconds of so.)
- Know how to use place-value strategies to solve mental math problems like 55+37, 36+8, 90-42, or 74-6
- Know how to add and subtract two and three-digit numbers with the standard written process. (You might know this method as “stack method” or “borrowing and carrying.”)
(Note that this is the bare minimum list of skills your child should know before starting Third Grade Math with Confidence. It is not a full list of everything covered in Second Grade Math with Confidence.)
If your child is not fluent with the addition and subtraction facts but knows the rest of the skills listed above, he is probably ready to begin Third Grade Math with Confidence. Make sure to add 5 minutes of daily addition and subtraction facts practice to each lesson until your child becomes more fluent with the facts.
Samples will be coming soon!
