In this Grade 3 instructional guide, students explore the concept of applying addition and subtraction through three tasks that connect multi-step reasoning to everyday contexts familiar to students in Hawaiʻi.

• Practice Task 1 (75 min) — Students calculate how long it will take to make yarn lei for their soccer team, using their own lei-making time as the starting point

• Practice Task 2 (65 min) — Students create a plan for purchasing art supplies within a $400 budget to decorate their school hallways

• End-of-Unit Performance Task (90 min) — Students justify a slipper-purchasing plan for their school principal, selecting sizes and quantities while staying within budget

Standards: 3.NBT.2, 3.OA.8

Curriculum Connections: Stepping Stones, Illustrative Math, Go Math!, Into Math, enVision Mathematics 2.0

In this Grade 3 instructional guide, students explore the concept of elapsed time and telling time through three tasks that connect time-measurement reasoning to everyday contexts familiar to students in Hawaiʻi.

• Practice Task 1 (60 min) — Students record and represent the times of key moments in their school day, writing times in digital and analog formats and calculating how many hours pass between school ending and bedtime

• Practice Task 2 (60 min) — Students calculate elapsed time to the nearest minute across a schedule of after-school activities, determining the total number of minutes spent on activities of their choosing

• End-of-Unit Performance Task (60 min) — Students apply their understanding of writing time to the nearest minute and calculating elapsed time in minutes to plan a community service project for their class on a Saturday, drawing on their sense of kuleana to give back to their community

Standards: 3.MD.A.1, K-12.MP.1-8

Curriculum Connections: Stepping Stones, Illustrative Math, Go Math!, Into Math, enVision Mathematics 2.0

In this Grade 3 instructional guide, students explore the concept of representing and interpreting graphs through three tasks that connect data reasoning to everyday contexts familiar to students.

• Practice Task 1 (75 min) — Students complete and interpret a scaled bar graph about video games, adding labels, titles, and an appropriate scale, then solve one- and two-step "how many more/less" comparison problems using the data

• Practice Task 2 (75 min) — Students organize class survey data about favorite recess games, select and justify an appropriate scale, and create a scaled picture graph, then write and solve their own one- and two-step problems using the graph

• End-of-Unit Performance Task (75 min) — Students roll a die repeatedly to collect their own data, organize it using tally marks, represent it in a scaled bar graph or picture graph of their choosing, and formulate and answer questions based on both their own graph and a classmate's

Standards: 3.MD.B.3, K-12.MP.1-8

Curriculum Connections: ORIGO Stepping Stones 2.0, Illustrative Math, Go Math!, Into Math, enVision Mathematics 2.0

In this Grade 3 instructional guide, students explore the concept of area and perimeter through three tasks that connect measurement reasoning to real-world design contexts.

• Practice Task 1 (50 min) — Students use multiplication to find the area of rectangles with whole-number side lengths and solve problems involving unknown side lengths, all in the context of planning crop plots on a farm

• Practice Task 2 (50 min) — Students apply area concepts to break irregular shapes into smaller rectangles and calculate total area, then design a dog park by creating rectangles with the same area but different perimeters

• End-of-Unit Performance Task (60 min) — Students apply their understanding of both area and perimeter to design an animal sanctuary, selecting pre-cut rectangles of varying sizes to represent animal spaces, calculating each area using multiplication, and arranging them into a complete sanctuary layout

Standards: 3.MD.C.7, 3.MD.C.7.b, 3.MD.C.7.d, 3.MD.D.8, K-12.MP.1-8

Curriculum Connections: enVision Mathematics, Engage NY/Eureka, HMH GoMath!, Into Math, Ready Classroom Mathematics, ORIGO Stepping Stones, Dimensions Math