Alabama: Grade 3 Math Standards
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ILLUSTRATE THE PRODUCT OF TWO WHOLE NUMBERS AS EQUAL GROUPS BY IDENTIFYING THE NUMBER OF GROUPS AND THE NUMBER IN EACH GROUP AND REPRESENT AS A WRITTEN EXPRESSION.
IDENTIFY THE NEAREST 10 OR 100 WHEN ROUNDING WHOLE NUMBERS, USING PLACE VALUE UNDERSTANDING.
USE VARIOUS STRATEGIES TO ADD AND SUBTRACT FLUENTLY WITHIN 1000.
USE CONCRETE MATERIALS AND PICTORIAL MODELS BASED ON PLACE VALUE AND PROPERTIES OF OPERATIONS TO FIND THE PRODUCT OF A ONE-DIGIT WHOLE NUMBER BY A MULTIPLE OF TEN (FROM 10 TO 90).
DEMONSTRATE THAT A UNIT FRACTION REPRESENTS ONE PART OF AN AREA MODEL OR LENGTH MODEL OF A WHOLE THAT HAS BEEN EQUALLY PARTITIONED; EXPLAIN THAT A NUMERATOR GREATER THAN ONE INDICATES THE NUMBER OF UNIT PIECES REPRESENTED BY THE FRACTION.
INTERPRET A FRACTION AS A NUMBER ON THE NUMBER LINE; LOCATE OR REPRESENT FRACTIONS ON A NUMBER LINE DIAGRAM.
EXPLAIN EQUIVALENCE AND COMPARE FRACTIONS BY REASONING ABOUT THEIR SIZE USING VISUAL FRACTION MODELS AND NUMBER LINES.
- 3.15.a Express whole numbers as fractions and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers.
- 3.15.b Compare two fractions with the same numerator or with the same denominator by reasoning about their size (recognizing that fractions must refer to the same whole for the comparison to be valid). Record comparisons using < , >, or = and justify conclusions.
FOR A GIVEN OR COLLECTED SET OF DATA, CREATE A SCALED (ONE-TO-MANY) PICTURE GRAPH AND SCALED BAR GRAPH TO REPRESENT A DATA SET WITH SEVERAL CATEGORIES.
MEASURE LENGTHS USING RULERS MARKED WITH HALVES AND FOURTHS OF AN INCH TO GENERATE DATA AND CREATE A LINE PLOT MARKED OFF IN APPROPRIATE UNITS TO DISPLAY THE DATA.
TELL AND WRITE TIME TO THE NEAREST MINUTE; MEASURE TIME INTERVALS IN MINUTES (WITHIN 90 MINUTES.)
- 3.18.a Solve real-world problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes by representing the problem on a number line diagram.
ESTIMATE AND MEASURE LIQUID VOLUMES AND MASSES OF OBJECTS USING LITERS (L), GRAMS (G), AND KILOGRAMS (KG).
- 3.19.a Use the four operations to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes given in the same metric units.
ILLUSTRATE AND INTERPRET THE QUOTIENT OF TWO WHOLE NUMBERS AS THE NUMBER OF OBJECTS IN EACH GROUP OR THE NUMBER OF GROUPS WHEN THE WHOLE IS PARTITIONED INTO EQUAL SHARES.
FIND THE AREA OF A RECTANGLE WITH WHOLE NUMBER SIDE LENGTHS BY TILING WITHOUT GAPS OR OVERLAYS AND COUNTING UNIT SQUARES.
COUNT UNIT SQUARES (SQUARE CM, SQUARE M, SQUARE IN, SQUARE FT, AND IMPROVISED OR NON-STANDARD UNITS) TO DETERMINE AREA.
RELATE AREA TO THE OPERATIONS OF MULTIPLICATION USING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS, CONCRETE MATERIALS, MATHEMATICAL REASONING, AND THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY.
DECOMPOSE RECTILINEAR FIGURES INTO SMALLER RECTANGLES TO FIND THE AREA, USING CONCRETE MATERIALS.
CONSTRUCT RECTANGLES WITH THE SAME PERIMETER AND DIFFERENT AREAS OR THE SAME AREA AND DIFFERENT PERIMETERS.
SOLVE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS INVOLVING PERIMETERS OF POLYGONS, INCLUDING FINDING THE PERIMETER GIVEN THE SIDE LENGTHS AND FINDING AN UNKNOWN SIDE LENGTH OF RECTANGLES.
RECOGNIZE AND DESCRIBE POLYGONS (UP TO 8 SIDES), TRIANGLES, AND QUADRILATERALS (RHOMBUSES, RECTANGLES, AND SQUARES) BASED ON THE NUMBER OF SIDES AND THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF SQUARE CORNERS.
- 3.26.a Draw examples of quadrilaterals that are and are not rhombuses, rectangles, and squares.