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Exemplars + Investigations in Number, Data and Space
Third Grade
Dale Seymore Publications. Copyright 1998, 2004, 2006
| Mathematical Thinking at Grade 3 |
- Count, group quantities to 100; become familiar with patterns on 100 chart; explore materials; communicate math thinking through written and spoken language
- Construct symmetrical patterns for addition combinations; develop add strategies; explore numbers divided into halves
- Sort, classify information; collect, record, and represent data; describe data in tallies or graphs; use groupings; use strategies for combining and comparing quantities
- Explore characteristics of odd, even numbers; examine their combinations; become familiar with calculators
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CDI
Presents, Ant in the Well, Chocolate Chip Cookie Rubric
CDII
Chick-a-dee-dee, Good-bye Party Fun, Lost Count
Volume 9
Pattern Block Walls, Calling All Students, Picture Frames, Improving His Aim, Pumpkin Character Challenge
Volume 10
Bird Watching, Bobsled Blunders, Jeff's Marbles, Olympic Medal Count, Barney's Bakeries, Barnum's Animal Cracker Circus, Building with Blocks, Collections, Fishing Worms, Kate's Flower Garden, Lunch at the Hot Dog Hut, Over in the Meadow, Saving Money |
| Things That Come in Groups |
- Find things that come in groups; use multiplication notation; use multiplication to mean groups of groups; write and illustrate multiplication sentences
- Recognize the relationship of skip counting, area, and arrays to multiplication; look for patterns in multiples
- Find factor pairs; make connections between number and arrays
- Understand the relationship between mult and division and use notation for number sentences
- Multiply and divide in real-life situations; use patterns to solve problems; organize, present data in tables and line plots; use tables and line plots
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CDI
Camping, Checkerboard Investigation, Great Pizza Dilemma
CDII
Meddling with the Medals, A Very Fishy Story
Volume 9
Fruit Punch, Picture Frames
Volume 10
Jeff's Marbles, Raising Chicks, Snack Shopping, Barney's Bakeries, Barnum's Animal Cracker Circus , Building with Blocks , Hiking , Kate's Flower Garden t, Lunch at the Hot Dog Hut, Over in the Meadow, Saving Money |
| Flips, Turns, and Area |
- Measure area; find patterns for area; compare areas; describe flips, slides, and turns; compare shapes for congruency
- Measure areas; explore relationships among and within shapes; find areas of complex shapes by cutting apart
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CDI
Checkerboard Investigation, Two-Inch Square, Mrs. Hasson's Decorating Dilemma, Tangram Areas - Grandfather Tang's Story
CDII
Cookie Cutters, Right-Equilateral Triangle?
Volume 9
Pattern Block Walls |
| From Paces to Feet |
- Use nonstandard units to measure distance; experience iteration; estimate length; compare using different-sized unit; analyze data; write and follow directions for distance
- Understand reason for standard measures; become familiar with inches, ft, yd, cm, m; represent data on a line plot
- Use standard measures for complex problems to gather, analyze data; collect, organize, represent, analyze data
- Develop awareness of cm during a project
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CDI
Miss Guy's Puppy Problem, Playground Committee, Post Office Display, Sandbox for Geoffrey, Zeno the Xylophone Maker
CDII
Valentine's Day Cards
Volume 9
Getting Ready
Volume 10
Making Candles, Barney's Bakeries |
| Landmarks in the Hundreds |
- Understand relationship between skip counting and grouping; understand relationship between factors and multiples; become familiar with factors of 100 and use as a landmark;
- Develop strategies to solve mult and div problems; estimate quantities close to 200, 300, 400, up to 1000, using landmark numbers; use standard multiplication/division notation for problems
- Work with factors of 100 to build understanding of 1000; estimate quantities to 1000; use landmarks
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CDI
Missing Key Dilemma, I-Did-A-Read, Necco® Mania
CDII
Chick-a-dee-dee, Good-bye Party Fun
Volume 9
Improving His Aim
Volume 10
Bird Watching, Over in the Meadow |
| Up and Down the Number Line |
- Develop concept of net change and strategies for computing; construct knowledge of positive and negative numbers
- Represent numbers graphically; interpret change on a number line, graph; compare overall shapes of graphs
- Relate direction to positive, negative numbers
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CDI
Ant in the Well, Filling the Pool, Miss Guy's Puppy Problem, Pedal Power, Penny a Day, Winning Ticket
CDII
Fair's Fair?, Good-bye Party Fun
Volume 10
Batting Practice, Bird Watching, Kate's Flower Garden |
| Combining and Comparing |
- Compare numbers and develop strategies to determine differences; develop ways to get to 100 by combining numbers; use landmark numbers to compare quantities
- Develop understanding "change" in weight, time, distance; find how far a number is from next multiple of 10, 100
- Solve addition problems with multiple addends; develop addition strategies; use standard addition & subtraction notation; use equivalencies in time, money, linear measures
- Collecting, recording, graphing data and making predictions about data
- Exploring math characteristics of calendar
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CDI
Another Domino Dilemma, Busy Day, Raccoons, Kwanza Celebration, Necco® Mania
CDII
"Planely" a Problem, Getting Ready
Volume 9
Fruit Punch, Spilled Milk, Getting Ready, Celebrating My Birthday, Breakfast with Grandmother
Volume 10
Bird Watching, Bobsled Blunders, Snack Shopping, Fishing Worms, Hiking, Kate's Flower Garden, Over in the Meadow, Saving Money
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| Turtle Paths |
- Understand paths and movement representations; apply math processes such as add, sub, estimation
- Describe attributes of triangles, including degrees of rotation; apply addition, subtraction, estimation, logic skills for missing measures of figures
- Construct geometric figures; understand shapes' movements; estimate and measuring perimeters; pose and solve original geometric problems
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CDI
Bulletin Board Border, Tangram Areas - Grandfather Tang's Story, Carpet Caper
CDII
Valentine's Day Cards
Volume 9
Pattern Block Walls, Right-Equilateral Triangle? Picture Frames, |
| Fair Shares |
- Realize fractional parts must be equal; understand conventional fraction words and notation
- Become familiar with unit fractions, equivalent fractions
- Understand relationships between fractions and division; relate notation for division and fractions on the calculator
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CDI
Deluxe Birthday Cake, Equal Snacks, Great Pizza Dilemma, Is Dan Losing His Marbles?, Making a Fair Decision
CDII
A Lucky Draw, Fair's Fair?, Pattern Block Thinking, "M&M" Cookie Combos
Volume 9
Spilled Milk
Volume 10
Lugging Water, Fishing Worms |
| Exploring Solids and Boxes |
- Explore, sort, and describe geometric solids; analyze similarities and differences among solids
- Recognize attributes of polygons, polyhedra
- Explore 2-D geometric patterns & relationship to 3-D shapes; improve spatial visualization
- Predict volume; understand structure of rectangular prism arrays of cubes
- Problem-solving involves planning, trial and error, analysis, and visualization, as well as appropriate computation techniques
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CDI
Party Seating, Playground Fun, Tangram Areas - Grandfather Tang's Story
CDII
Valentine's Day Cards
Volume 9
Pattern Block Walls, Right-Equilateral Triangle? Calling All Students, Picture Frames
Volume 10
Follow My Lead |
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