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3rd grade math thematic unit plans for parents

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 Back to School Night | Teacher Information Brochure| Meet the Teacher | EDITABLE

Back to School Night | Teacher Information Brochure| Meet the Teacher | EDITABLE

This is a super easy way to give your parents all the information they need on back to school night. It has a spot for teacher wish list, student supplies, daily schedule, subjects, contact info, etc.It is in black and white. I print it on a cute colored paper and it turns out adorable and can be copied on the school copier to save your some colored ink! There is a colored version that you can find in my TpT store if you prefer that!Parents love this and hang it on their fridge year round!
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 Summer Review Packet {2nd to 3rd Grade}

Summer Review Packet {2nd to 3rd Grade}

Getting Ready for Third Grade is a summer review packet to help your second grader get ready for third grade! It includes everything your second grader needs to review and maintain over the summer months. All the activities are Common Core Aligned and include the following:Language Arts Activities:Long and short vowel reviewPrefixes and SuffixesPlural NounsSynonyms and AntonymsSentence EditingParts of SpeechCompound WordsFriendly Letter reviewCharacter comparisonsSettingBeginning, Middle and End
Preview of Editable Speeding Tickets Classroom Management System

Editable Speeding Tickets Classroom Management System

If you’re having trouble with students speeding through their work, try this!My students have gotten into the mindset that the first one who finishes an assignment must be the smartest. We’ve been having discussions about slowing down and creating high-quality work instead. These speeding tickets have been a great reminder! Simply print, cut and, staple them to assignments that students rushed through.
Preview of End of Year & Summer Math Packet - 3rd Grade Review Coloring Activities

End of Year & Summer Math Packet - 3rd Grade Review Coloring Activities

Created by
Live Laugh Math
Need a fun, easy way to review third grade math concepts kids will need to succeed in fourth grade? This summer math review packet works well to review at the end of the year, over the summer, or at the beginning of fourth grade.Many of the color by numbers are self-checking. If the answer is not in the picture, you will know you did something wrong. 10 Math Coloring Activities Included:• Multiply & Divide (18 questions)• Multiply & Divide 2 (12 questions)• Add & Subtract (12 questio
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 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 Second Grade Summer Packet | Summer Homework for Rising Third Graders

Second Grade Summer Packet | Summer Homework for Rising Third Graders

This summer packet is designed for students who have completed second grade and will be entering third grade. Through review activities and games, this summer packet helps prevent learning loss - so students retain the important skills you've worked hard to teach them throughout the year!This packet contains 114 no-prep pages of student materials: worksheets, activities, and games. You can also use some of the pages as an end-of-the-year review (or beginning of the year for third grade).This sum
Preview of Editable State Testing Parent Letter Secret Mission to Motivate Students

Editable State Testing Parent Letter Secret Mission to Motivate Students

Encourage your students during your state's standardized tests with the help of their family, friends, and neighbors! Prior to standardized tests, send this letter home with students in a sealed envelope addressed to their parents or caregivers. It asks the parents and caregivers to write a letter or note of encouragement to their child, place the letters in a envelope, and send back to school to the teacher. On test day, the teacher will place the envelopes on the students' desk to open on t
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 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 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 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 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 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 Parent Handouts Mega Bundle

Parent Handouts Mega Bundle

Do you need easy activities to increase parent communication and engage parents and families? This Parent Handouts Mega Bundle is the perfect way to support families and students! These handouts will give parents a helping hand at home. This resource contains 20 NO PREP letters with a total of 200 tips to send home to parents in color AND black and white. These family handouts are a great way to provide parents and guardians with support and ideas for working with their children at home!This res
Preview of Parent Handouts Math

Parent Handouts Math

Do you need parent handouts to engage your families in math at home? Are you looking for an easy way to improve parent communication and connect home and school? If you have parents asking what they can do at home to help their child improve in math, these handouts are perfect for you! These family letters give parents and guardians a helping hand with math at home! This resource contains 4 NO PREP letters to send home with parents to give them support and ideas for using math with their chi
Preview of Rock and Roll Activities | Rock Your School Day | End of Year Themed Day

Rock and 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 Parent Handouts Bundle

Parent Handouts Bundle

Parent handouts are the perfect tool to provide to parents at open house, parent conferences, and report card time! These simple to use and engaging handouts provide parents with activities support learning at home. These parent letters for math and reading are the perfect way to connect home and school.When parents reach out for ideas about what they can do at home to help their child improve in math and reading, these handouts are exactly what you need to provide high quality tips and activiti
Preview of One Graph, Two Graphs, Three Graphs, More! {Goldfish Activities}

One Graph, Two Graphs, Three Graphs, More! {Goldfish Activities}

The following activities and worksheets are perfect to use after reading the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss. These activities are also great to pair with your math lessons!This download includes:- snack bag topper for Goldfish crackers- making estimations worksheet- making a pattern worksheet- comparing numbers worksheet- writing a simple addition sentence worksheet activity- simple subtraction worksheet- making fact families worksheet activity- making fractions works
Preview of 3rd & 4th Grade Emergency Sub Plans: No Prep Substitute Lessons & Activities

3rd & 4th Grade Emergency Sub Plans: No Prep Substitute Lessons & Activities

These emergency sub plans for 3rd grade and 4th grade teachers contains 14 sets of emergency sub plans packed with print & use substitute friendly lesson plans that correspond with seasonal themes - perfect for your sub binder or those last-minute absences! Perfect for teachers who want to feel confident their prepared for the unexpected sick day or ready on the fly when a colleague has a sub and no sub plans prepared! This bundle of third and fourth grade emergency sub plans offers an all-
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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.