What are we learning?

Unit 1: Math Tools, Time, and Multiplication

Essential Questions:

1. How do numbers influence our everyday lives?

2. What tools help us solve problems and how?

3. How do representations help our problem solving process?

Upon completion of this unit students will be able to:

• use number-grid patterns for computation (3.NBT.2; SMP6,7)

• review and use a variety of math tools (3.MD.1,2; 3.NBT.2; 3.G.1; SMP5,6)

• use open number lines to round numbers (3.NBT.1,2; SMP1,6)

• tell time to the nearest minute (3.MD.1; SMP1,5,6)

• use mathematical models to measure elapsed time (3.MD.1; SMP1,4)

• represent and interpret data on a scaled bar graph (3.MD.3; SMP2,6)

• use drawings and number models to represent and solve multiplication number stories (3.OA.1,3,7; SMP2,3,4,6)

• solve division number stories (3.OA.2,3,6; SMP1,4)

• develop strategies for 2s, 5s, and 10s facts (3.OA.1,6,7; 3.NBT.2; SMP2,3,8)

• compare mass (3.MD.2; SMP2,4,5)

• divide wholes into equal shares (3.NF.2; SMP2,4,5)

• estimate and measure mass (3.MD.2; SMP1,5,6)