Montague Township School District
Math Curriculum Guide
Grade 3
2025-2026
Brooke Senesac · Emily Weiss
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Description
Grade 3 mathematics focuses on four critical areas: developing understanding of multiplication and division with strategies for operations within 100; developing understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions; developing understanding of rectangular arrays and area; and describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes. Students use properties of operations, visual models, and concrete experiences to solve problems. The curriculum is organized into four 9-week units that build foundational skills in operations, measurement, fractions, and data representation. Students work with equal-sized groups, arrays, area models, and fraction models to deepen conceptual understanding. By year's end, students are expected to know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers and fluently add and subtract within 1000.
Big Ideas
- Multiplication and division are inverse operations that represent equal groups, arrays, and area models.
- Fractions are numbers and quantities formed by partitioning wholes into equal parts; the size of a fractional part depends on the size of the whole.
- Area is an attribute of two-dimensional figures that can be measured by counting unit squares and calculated using multiplication of side lengths.
- Properties of operations (commutative, associative, distributive) provide strategies for computing products and understanding mathematical relationships.
- Data can be organized, represented, and interpreted using tables, picture graphs, bar graphs, and line plots to answer questions.
Essential Questions
- How are multiplication and division related?
- How can you write a mathematical sentence to represent a multiplication or division model?
- How do estimation, multiplication, and division help us solve problems in everyday life?
- How are fractions used in problem-solving situations?
- What relationships can I discover about fractions?
- How can the knowledge of area be used to solve real world problems?
Core Textbook
Pearson EnVision — Pearson
Digital Literacy
Geometry
Measurement
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Number and Operations—Fractions
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Students use reading comprehension skills to problem solve and explain mathematical thinking in written form using mathematical terms. Students connect everyday vocabulary to strengthen their understanding of mathematical concepts.
Students collect and analyze data and make calculations involving measurements across life science, physical science, and earth science modules. Students represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe observations and patterns.
Assessment throughout Grade 3 includes formative assessments such as classwork, exit tickets, whiteboards, individual and group work, and math journals used daily to monitor student understanding. Formative assessment resources include released item sets, EngageNY materials, NC instructional tasks, and online tools such as Illuminations, TenMarks, LearnZillion, Eureka Math, and IXL. Summative assessments include chapter tests, performance tasks, extended projects, PARCC assessments, and basic facts drill tests administered at the end of units. Benchmark assessments using Renaissance/STAR, MAP Testing, DRA, and district benchmarks within adopted programs (Envision, Go Math, Eureka, iReady) occur throughout the year. State testing results and teacher-created assessments provide additional evidence of student mastery.
| Unit | Formative | Summative | Benchmark | Alternative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01Multiplication, Division and Concepts of Area | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| 02Modeling Multiplication, Division and Fractions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 03Fractions as Numbers and Measurement | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| 04Representing Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Coverage | 4/4 | 4/4 | 2/2 | 4/4 |
| Unit | IEP | 504 | MLL | At-Risk | Gifted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01Multiplication, Division and Concepts of Area | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 02Modeling Multiplication, Division and Fractions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 03Fractions as Numbers and Measurement | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 04Representing Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Coverage | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 |