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A lesson plan for grade 3 Mathematics

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics


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By playing card games and singing skip-counting songs, the students practice the multiplication facts. Illuminations provides rules and handouts for completing the lesson. The teacher begins the lesson by challenging students to write the multiples of “8” and then chant or sing the multiples together. Then, the teacher demonstrates how to make triangular flash cards and challenges students to create their own for practice. Students work in pairs to quiz each other on multiplication tables and then the class discusses the activity.

Students will be able to:

  • Practice reciting multiplication facts.
  • Discuss the effects of the commutative property.
  • Choose strategies to help them learn multiplication facts.

NCTM Standards and Expectations covered in this lesson include:

  • Understanding the effects of multiplying and dividing whole numbers.
  • Developing fluency in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers.
  • Understanding various meanings of multiplication and division.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 3

  • Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will model, identify, and compute with whole numbers through 9,999.
    • Objective 1.03: Develop fluency with multiplication from 1x1 to 12x12 and division up to two-digit by one-digit numbers using:
      • Strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers.
      • Estimation of products and quotients in appropriate situations.
      • Relationships between operations.
    • Objective 1.04: Use basic properties (identity, commutative, associative, order of operations) for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
    • Objective 1.06: Develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.