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3rd grade math thematic unit plans for special education

Preview of End of the Year Activities - Camping Room Transformation Camp Read a Lot Summer

End of the Year Activities - Camping Room Transformation Camp Read a Lot Summer

Embark on an end of the year adventure with your students without leaving the classroom with our Camping Theme Activities: Camp Read-a-Lot! Transform your learning space into an exciting campsite where reading and exploration go hand in hand, perfectly capturing the spirit of camping in the classroom. Click here to see this resource AS PART OF A BUNDLE! Have theme days planned out for the whole year!What’s Inside? Dive into a treasure trove of activities (200+ pages!!!) designed to ignite a love
Preview of Beach Day End of the Year Theme Day Activities Countdown to Summer

Beach Day End of the Year Theme Day Activities Countdown to Summer

Pack your beach towels and enjoy a day filled with fun activities. Enjoy the last week of school with this fun end of the year beach theme day. It is filled with literature activities, math fun, word work, crafts, and more! Your students will be so excited to come to school and enjoy this day with you. This would also make great summer camp activities for a week filled of fun.Beach Day Activities Included:Beach Day LetterBeach Day QuestionnaireFiction Activities:If you Ever Want to Bring a Pia
Preview of Functional Life Skills Curriculum BUNDLE  {for students with special needs}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum BUNDLE {for students with special needs}

What Are Life Skills? Life skills must be taught to students in special education to help them become independent and successful. Life skills instruction combines academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach students how to live and work in the community. Trying to find time in our busy school day to fit in these lessons are really hard but we can try and practice them at school and home!Use this resource as your Life Skills Curriculum. You can use the activities inclu
Preview of Cooking & Craft Visual Recipes | 50 Seasonal Recipes & MORE | Speech Therapy

Cooking & Craft Visual Recipes | 50 Seasonal Recipes & MORE | Speech Therapy

Created by
Live Love Speech
Thank you for checking out my Cooking & Craft Visual Recipe Pack!This pack will allow your clients or students to easily follow & make cooking and craft recipes. It is perfect for incorporating cooking into classroom lessons and group sessions. It can also be used as a cooking curriculum for your students throughout the year.There are 10 recipes for each season (fall, winter, spring, & summer). Additionally, it includes 10 recipes that can be used anytime throughout the year. *The re
Preview of Constellation Cards/Activity

Constellation Cards/Activity

This is a great activity for your youngsters when studying outer space and the solar system! It can be used as a math unit (counting stars), history (the origin of constellations and their importance), or science (constellations in general!).These can also be scaled down and pasted into an interactive notebook or used as matching cards.There are two constellations on each page, for a total of 6 constellations with varying degrees of difficulty. The constellations included are:-The Big Dipper-Leo
Preview of Giraffes Can't Dance Book Companion Activities Speech and Language Therapy

Giraffes Can't Dance Book Companion Activities Speech and Language Therapy

Created by
Speech Sprouts
Speech therapy jungle style! Language and articulation activities perfect for zoo themes too. Packed with story comprehension activities, yes/no and wh questions, multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms, and more. This set includes ready-to-go activities for a variety of levels from PK to early elementary so you can use one wonderful storybook across your caseload!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~➤SKILLS TARGETED:• Phonological Awareness- rhyme, syllable counting, initial sound
Preview of Titanic Activities Thematic Bundle No Prep and Digital

Titanic Activities Thematic Bundle No Prep and Digital

The Titanic is the most famous ship ever and students of all ages love to learn about it! With this Titanic Bundle, you will have tons of math and language arts activities that will engage and teach your students all about the famed unsinkable ship. Cover many third, fourth, and fifth-grade standards such as 4-digit addition and subtraction, opinion writing, multiple-digit multiplication, context clues, word problems, main idea, estimation, and much more all while learning about the Titanic! Usi
Preview of 100th Day of School Activities and Worksheets, No Prep Printables, 70 Pages!

100th Day of School Activities and Worksheets, No Prep Printables, 70 Pages!

Created by
Sheila Melton
Your students have been waiting all year for the 100th day of school! Use these printables and activities to celebrate this special day with them!This resource contains printables and activities to help your students celebrate the 100th Day of School with a variety of ready-to-go printables that will provide meaningful practice and tons of fun for the 100th day! ⭐️ Prep is quick and easy... Ideal for morning work, the writing center, stations, independent practice, small groups, homework, 5-minu
Preview of Native Americans, Native American Tribes Unit for Social Studies

Native Americans, Native American Tribes Unit for Social Studies

This Native Americans unit is filled with vocabulary, history, social studies, reading, and writing activities. This unit will teach your students about different Native American tribes, regions, tools, early homes, and traditions.Start the unit with two sheets on prior knowledge, which will activate their schema and what they're wanting to learn during this Native American unit. Then, you can choose to introduce the vocabulary cards at the beginning of the unit or throughout the unit when you g
Preview of Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Personal Care & Hygiene} Digital & Printable

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Personal Care & Hygiene} Digital & Printable

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Personal Care & Hygiene}What Are Life Skills? Life skills must be taught to students in special education to help them become independent and successful. Life skills instruction combines academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach students how to live and work in the community. Trying to find time in our busy school day to fit in these lessons are really hard but we can try and practice them at school and home!Use this resource a
Preview of 3rd Grade Test Prep | Carnival Room Transformation | DIGITAL

3rd Grade Test Prep | Carnival Room Transformation | DIGITAL

This product was a HUGE labor of love! It comes with everything you could ever possibly need to help you transform your classroom into an unforgettable test-prep experience for your students! Now DIGITAL!In 17 years of teaching, I have NEVER seen such dedicated, focused, unstressed students during the weeks leading up to a big test. A little planning and preparation on my part turned in to 8 days of the most intensely focused test prep I’ve ever seen and made all of the time I spent preparing
Preview of End of Year Review for 3rd & 4th Graders: Bubble Gum Day Activities & Games

End of Year Review for 3rd & 4th Graders: Bubble Gum Day Activities & Games

Created by
ideas by jivey
Celebrate the end of the school year with a Bubble Gum Themed Day for grades 3 and 4 while reinforcing essential skills in reading, writing, and math with this engaging, multi-disciplinary unit.This bubble gum integration unit was created with the intention of having an end-of-the-year review day with 3rd and 4th graders, but it can easily be adapted to fit any time of year!★PRINTABLE AND DIGITAL FORMATS ARE INCLUDED!★⬆️ Please check out the preview for a look at the resource! ⬆️WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Preview of Leveled Reading Comprehension Passages and Worksheets with Visual Support

Leveled Reading Comprehension Passages and Worksheets with Visual Support

These no-prep printable reading comprehension passages and questions (50 weeks of materials included) with visuals are leveled and differentiated to meet the needs of the varying students in your classroom. There are 50 sets of passages/worksheets each on a different high-interest topic. Each set comes with 4 levels of differentiated materials! (So, really it's 200 passages & worksheets and more than 2,000 pages of materials!)You can find some of these items individually listed here! INCLUDE
Preview of Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Health & Nutrition}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Health & Nutrition}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Health & Nutrition}What Are Life Skills? Life skills must be taught to students in special education to help them become independent and successful. Life skills instruction combines academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach students how to live and work in the community. Trying to find time in our busy school day to fit in these lessons is really hard but we can try and practice them at school and home!Use this resource as part
Preview of Book Covers | Editable

Book Covers | Editable

Created by
Mrs Edgar
Book Covers:46 book covers as well as a complete editable set (40 pages) to add your own titles to! Instructions to edit are provided!Book covers included are as follows:* Alphabet* Art* Assessments* Daily Writing* Diary Writing* Early Finisher* My Early Finish Book* Economics and Business* English* General* Geography (2 versions)* Grammar and Punctuation* Grammar* Handwriting* HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences)* Health* History and Geography* History * Homework* Inquiry* Integrated Subjects*
Preview of Rock & Roll Activities | Rock Your School Day | End of Year Themed Day

Rock & Roll Activities | Rock Your School Day | End of Year Themed Day

Rock & Roll activities for an entire day of engaging lessons are all planned out for you with this fun product! Students will take a 10 city tour through the U.S. completing activities for reading, writing, language, social studies, science, and math along the way. Your students will LOVE all the hands-on activities. You will love having meaningful, standards-based activities AND an entire day of instruction planned out for you! This product is perfect to use at the end of the school year, i
Preview of All About Me Themed Language Therapy Unit | Speech Therapy | Back to School

All About Me Themed Language Therapy Unit | Speech Therapy | Back to School

Created by
Speechy Musings
This themed language therapy unit includes a wide variety of materials and resources for your students with language goals using a fun and engaging ALL ABOUT ME theme!In this unit, there are materials directly targeting the following areas:Core vocabulary (like, mine)Basic concepts (same, most)Categories (body parts)Describing (body parts)Tier 2 vocabulary (meet, unique, community)Prefix/suffix (-s, auto-)Inferencing/predictingSentence combiningComprehending narrative textsComprehending non-fict
Preview of A Roller Coaster Day 7-Hour Complete Sub Plan Thematic Unit for Common Core

A Roller Coaster Day 7-Hour Complete Sub Plan Thematic Unit for Common Core

Created by
Lovin Lit
A Roller Coaster Day 7-Hour Complete Sub Plan Thematic Unit for Common Core This packet is for grades 3-4. Find the Grades 5-6 Version with more complex tasks here. This packet includes everything you need for a complete interdisciplinary interactive unit on roller coasters. I created this unit to leave with a sub for 3rd-4th graders to complete in a day. The students work through the packet, completing activities for reading, science, social studies, and math. Then, they will turn everything
Preview of May Morning Work 1st 2nd Grade Math Facts Fluency Practice Timed Tests

May Morning Work 1st 2nd Grade Math Facts Fluency Practice Timed Tests

Are you looking for a fun and motivating way to help your students master their addition facts? Look no further than this Karate Math Facts Fluency Program for Addition Practice.This program is designed to align with brain research by introducing only a few new facts each day, setting your students up for success. With both written and oral practice at school and home, your students will be on their way to mastering their addition facts in no time!This comprehensive resource includes everything
Preview of Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Money: The Basics}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Money: The Basics}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Money: The Basics}What Are Life Skills? Life skills must be taught to students in special education to help them become independent and successful. Life skills instruction combines academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach students how to live and work in the community. Trying to find time in our busy school day to fit in these lessons are really hard but we can try and practice them at school and home!Use this resource as part of
Preview of Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Safety & Emergencies}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Safety & Emergencies}

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Coping Skills}What Are Life Skills? Life skills must be taught to students in special education to help them become independent and successful. Life skills instruction combines academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach students how to live and work in the community. Trying to find time in our busy school day to fit in these lessons are really hard but we can try and practice them at school and home!Use this resource as part of your
Preview of Picture It Visualization

Picture It Visualization

Created by
Speech Time Fun
Work on auditory comprehension using a visualization strategy. This pack includes 10 different practice sets using 10 different themes, and it can be used with a variety of ages and skill levels! You can do so much to reinforce this vital skill!***************************************************************************What awesome resources are included?★ Ten themes with eight stories per theme★ Worksheets for each story***************************************************************************W
Preview of Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Social Skills} Printable and Digital

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Social Skills} Printable and Digital

Functional Life Skills Curriculum {Social Skills}What Are Life Skills? Life skills must be taught to students in special education to help them become independent and successful. Life skills instruction combines academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach students how to live and work in the community. Trying to find time in our busy school day to fit in these lessons are really hard but we can try and practice them at school and home!Use this resource as part of your
Preview of 3rd Grade Math Escape Room & Webscape Bundle - Printable & Digital Activities

3rd Grade Math Escape Room & Webscape Bundle - Printable & Digital Activities

Created by
MagiCore
➕ This 3rd grade math escape room bundle is packed with immersive printable and digital activities to keep math skills sharp. Students navigate their way through various scripted adventures while reviewing standard-based math skills.⚿ Students embark on various journeys like escaping a candy factory, catching a bandit, navigating their way through time travel, and avoiding detention to start their summer vacation. In each escape room, students complete various challenges. Each challenge requires
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Find lessons for 3rd grade math | TPT

Importance of learning math skills in 3rd grade

It's no secret that mathematics is a foundational subject for students to learn. Since it forms the basis for many other subjects — like science, engineering, and technology — it's essential that kids develop strong math skills from a young age as it makes them more likely to succeed in other courses in the future.

Benefits of learning 3rd grade math

Learning math in 3rd grade has many benefits. It helps students:

  • Begin to develop problem-solving, logical reasoning, and critical-thinking skills
  • Grow their understanding of numbers and basic operations
  • Understand how math is used in real-life situations

By ensuring that children have a solid foundation, teachers can help set them up for future success

The key concepts for 3rd grade math

Third grade math is an essential component of a child's education, as students will build upon these concepts and skills in subsequent grades. Third grade math covers a wide range of topics, from basic arithmetic to more complex concepts like fractions.

Addition and Subtraction

In 3rd grade, children are expected to build upon and practice the knowledge they learned in the 1st and 2nd grades about addition and subtraction. As 3rd graders, they'll focus on learning how to add and subtract two and three digit numbers.

Multiplication and Division

In 3rd grade, students will start to learn how to multiply and divide numbers up to 100, and begin to learn about the relationship between multiplication and division.

Fractions

Children in 3rd grade will also learn about fractions including how to compare, order, and add and subtract fractions with like denominators.

Geometry

In 3rd grade, students will learn about two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, and be taught how to solve for a shape's perimeter, area, and/or volume. They'll also learn to identify lines of symmetry in shapes and understand basic transformations like reflection and rotation.

Measurement and Data

Measurement and data are another key concept students will explore in 3rd grade. They'll learn to measure the length, weight, and volume of objects using inches, pounds, and gallons. They'll also learn to interpret and create basic graphs and charts.

Common challenges students face in 3rd grade math

This grade can be challenging for some students. Common challenges include:

  • Difficulty understanding basic math facts
  • Trouble with memorizing multiplication tables
  • Difficulty with word problems
  • Lack of confidence in math abilities

How to find 3rd grade math resources

Educators can save time preparing math lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply search the TPT marketplace for "3rd grade math," and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find print and digital materials that've been proven to work in classrooms around the country. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of math worksheets, lessons, and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.

Frequently asked questions

What types of math resources are available on TPT?

There are many different types of math worksheets, lessons, and activities sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular math worksheets and resources can be found on topics like: addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, place value, geometry, measurement, fractions, and much more.

What are some good resources for practicing 3rd grade math?

Websites like TPT offer free and paid resources for practicing 3rd grade math.

Why is 3rd grade math important?

Math in 3rd is important because students learn the foundational knowledge they need for future academic success. Additionally, they'll learn the key concepts and skills that are necessary for solving more complex math problems in the future.

What are some common challenges in 3rd grade math?

Common challenges in 3rd grade math include difficulty with basic math facts, struggles with word problems, trouble with memorization, and lack of confidence in math abilities.

How can teachers effectively teach 3rd grade math?

Teachers can effectively teach 3rd graders by providing plenty of opportunities for practice, encouraging student collaboration, making teaching math fun and engaging, and providing regular feedback and recognition.

What are some key concepts taught in 3rd grade math?

Some key concepts taught to 3rd grade students include multiplication and division, fractions, geometry, measurement, and data.

How can I help my students overcome math anxiety?

You can help students overcome math anxiety by providing a supportive and positive environment, breaking down math concepts into manageable chunks, and using real-world examples.

What should I do if my child is struggling with a specific math concept?

If your child is struggling with a specific math concept, you can provide extra support and resources such as worksheets, tutoring, or online educational tools.

Sometimes, visual aids like charts, graphs, and manipulatives can help children understand abstract concepts better. The use of visuals can help explain math concepts to kids and better engage them in their learning.

How can I make math fun for students?

Children learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your math lessons by using games, videos, puzzles, and real-life scenarios. If a child in your class seems to find math boring or uninteresting, you can also try connecting it to their interests or hobbies.