What is your DC doing now in 3rd grade math?

[Anonymous]

We'll be moving (back) to MCPS next month from a small private that does not emphasize math and we want to make sure DC is caught up. Can you tell me what your child's class is currently working on and, if you know, what they will be doing second semester? TIA!

[Anonymous]

My kid is a third grader in a small private, too (we are happy and staying) and he is doing multiplication now, and some kids are moving on to division. They are having weekly quizes and moving to the next set of math facts when they pass. They spent the fall laying the groundwork for understanding multiplication and, to some extent, division. Looking forward to hearing what others are doing!

[Anonymous]

Here is the curriculum guide for third grade.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedfiles/curriculum/elementary/parent-guide-curriculum2.0-grade3-en.pdf

Math in the third marking period:

Measurement and Data: Area—rectangles, rectilinear figures.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Multiplication and division models and fluency (within 100)—facts with 0-10; multiplication table patterns—properties of operations; multiplication and division word problems (1-step)—drawings, equations; equal groups of objects, arrays of objects; 1-step word problems (all
operations); distributive property of multiplication.

Number and Operations—Fractions*: Unit fractions (numerator of 1)—equal parts of a whole; fractions—building fractions from unit fractions.

Geometry: Partition shapes: equal areas.
*Grade 3 limited to denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8

[Anonymous]

My child also goes to a small private, where she is in the highest math group. They have just finished doing single digit multiplication and division and are starting two digit multiplication and long division.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a third grader in a small private, too (we are happy and staying) and he is doing multiplication now, and some kids are moving on to division. They are having weekly quizes and moving to the next set of math facts when they pass. They spent the fall laying the groundwork for understanding multiplication and, to some extent, division. Looking forward to hearing what others are doing!

+1 (but public for my DC)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the curriculum guide for third grade.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedfiles/curriculum/elementary/parent-guide-curriculum2.0-grade3-en.pdf

Math in the third marking period:

Measurement and Data: Area—rectangles, rectilinear figures.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Multiplication and division models and fluency (within 100)—facts with 0-10; multiplication table patterns—properties of operations; multiplication and division word problems (1-step)—drawings, equations; equal groups of objects, arrays of objects; 1-step word problems (all
operations); distributive property of multiplication.

Number and Operations—Fractions*: Unit fractions (numerator of 1)—equal parts of a whole; fractions—building fractions from unit fractions.

Geometry: Partition shapes: equal areas.
*Grade 3 limited to denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8

I'm the 1st "my kid goes to a small private too" poster, and the school actually does use a curriculum that meets common core requirements, and so looking at that curriculum guide looks like what my kid is doing. My kid hasn't brought home much related to fractions yet, though.

[Anonymous]

My DC in public has been doing fractions for a few weeks, in 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC in public has been doing fractions for a few weeks, in 3rd grade.

Ditto. Another mom of a third grader in MCPS. Fractions are what they have been working on currently. Last two weeks homework has been fractions as well.

[Anonymous]

OP here and thank you! Is just understanding the concept of fractions or adding them or something else? Could probably get DS caught up in the former but not doing any operations with them, especially if the denominators are different. If your children are on that I had better get a tutor fast!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here and thank you! Is just understanding the concept of fractions or adding them or something else? Could probably get DS caught up in the former but not doing any operations with them, especially if the denominators are different. If your children are on that I had better get a tutor fast!

It's understanding 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 and 1/8, moving on to adding those fractions to themselves and understanding things like 3/5, 2/3, 7/8, 2/2. Not combining unlike denominators or multiplying or dividing.

[Anonymous]

Since winter break fractions started. Last week there was addition of two three didget numbers.

[Anonymous]

OP for what its worth, one of my DCs started at Moco today (from being at a small private previously) and didn't have any trouble with the fractions homework - despite it being new, and probably because it used geometric shapes.

It was probably an "intro" to the fractions work for the new kid, because my other twin who has been in Moco for a while and is in the same grade, had slightly more complicated fraction homework to do.

So don't panic.

[Anonymous]

3rd grade public. Adding and subtracting fractions.

[Anonymous]

Tuesday My 3rd grade kid had a double-sided worksheet with many geometric shapes divided into fractions. The task was to write the fraction for the shaded and unshaded portions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a third grader in a small private, too (we are happy and staying) and he is doing multiplication now, and some kids are moving on to division. They are having weekly quizes and moving to the next set of math facts when they pass. They spent the fall laying the groundwork for understanding multiplication and, to some extent, division. Looking forward to hearing what others are doing!

+1 (but public for my DC)

Please tell me the name of this public school please!