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A lesson plan for grade 3 Mathematics

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Students skip count and examine multiplication patterns, while exploring commutativity in this lesson. Illuminations provides charts, a handout, and songs for skip counting multiplication tables. By asking students a series of guiding questions, the teacher models how to use a number chart to learn multiplication tables.

NCTM Standards and Expectations covered in this lesson include:

  • Recognizing equivalent representations for the same number and generating them by decomposing and composing numbers.
  • Understanding various meanings of multiplication and division.
  • Identifying and using relationships between operations, such as division as the inverse of multiplication, to solve problems.

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 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 9,999.
      • Connect model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
      • Build understanding of place value (ones through thousands).
      • Compare and order.
    • 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.