This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 3rd grade Math content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 3rd Grade Math Course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

Students are given multiplication word problems (task cards). They must design a block tower to represent the equation.

NC.3.OA.1 Use repeated addition, bar models, and arrays to find a total product when there are repeated equal groups.

In this lesson, children's literature is an introduction to multiplication. You will need a copy of "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream" by Cindy Neuschwander in order to complete this lesson.

In this lesson, children's literature is an introduction to multiplication. You will need a copy of "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream" by Cindy Neuschwander in order to complete this lesson.

Recognize that area represents the product of two numbers.
Develop and justify a strategy that uses the area model to simplify a multiplication problem.
Represent a multiplication problem as the proportional area of a rectangle.
Looks for patterns in the total area calculation.

In this interactive demonstration, students select one of 6 array displays to illustrate 12 buttons. This virtual manipulative can help students to illustrate, represent, and explain multiplication and division problems.

This lesson focuses on real world examples of rectangular arrays as well as a real world problem.  The students creatively search for various examples of real world examples of rectangular arrays and then present their findings to the class using a technology tool.  The students are then posed with a real world task of determining the best arrangement of movie theater seats given the total seats of 50, 100, and 200, respectively.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson is for Grade 3 on math. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

This lesson is for Grade 3 on math. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

This lesson is for Grade 3 on math. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

In these 2 lessons students break apart rectangular regions to determine the areas of smaller regions and the larger region. 

In this lesson, students will illustrate multiplication problems using Unifix cubes and use properties of multiplication as it relates to division to solve the equations.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about dividing lengths (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about division terms.

In this lesson, students use items which come in sets to look for real-life multiples and write multiplication problems. For example: a box of 24 crayons has 3 rows of 8 crayons, so the problem written would be 3 x 8 = 24. A candy bar: 2 rows of 4 segments (2 x 4 =8).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about expressing multiplication sentences.

Students will learn how to use tricks to master multiplication facts. Students will be introduced to only 15 facts they must know to master multiplication facts through 9X11 with the prerequisite that they know the 0's,2's,5's,10's, and 11's.

Students will build on their understanding of the four operations (multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction) and apply their understanding to a real world problem (field trip).  After a brief discussion of how field trips are planned, students are given the task of developing a plan for an overnight field trip to Washington DC by determining the total cost per student.  This activity is designed to challenge students who demonstrate mastery of multiplication and division within 100. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about filling in the missing number to balance the equation.