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 Gr. 3 Unit: 3.MD.C.5-7: Understand Concepts of Area and Relate Area to Multiplication and Addition


Content Emphasis By Clusters in Grade 3

Essential Questions: Question

  • What is perimeter?
  • How does knowing the attributes of plane figures help find the perimeter of an identified plane figure?
  • What methods are used to measure perimeter/area?
  • How does knowing the attributes of plane figures help find the area of a figure?
  • How is area related to multiplication and addition?
  • What is the difference between area and perimeter?
  • How can the area of rectilinear figures be calculated?

  • Lesson Plans and Seeds

    Lesson Plan C.7a: Using Tiling to Find Area

    Lesson Seed C.5: Covering the Shapes

    Lesson Seed C.7c: Using the Distributive Property to Find the Area

    Lesson Seed C.7d: Area Rectilinear

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    Unit Overview

    Content Emphasis By Clusters in Grade 3

    Progressions from Common Core State Standards in Mathematics

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    Lesson seeds are ideas that can be used to build a lesson aligned to the CCSS. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction. When developing lessons from these seeds, teachers must consider the needs of all learners. It is also important to build checkpoints into the lessons where appropriate formative assessment will inform a teachers instructional pacing and delivery.

    According to the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), some clusters require greater emphasis than others. The table below shows PARCC’s relative emphasis for each cluster. Prioritization does not imply neglect or exclusion of material. Clear priorities are intended to ensure that the relative importance of content is properly attended to. Note that the prioritization is in terms of cluster headings.

    Key:
    • Major Clusters
    • Supporting Clusters
    • Additional Clusters

    Operations and Algebraic Thinking

  • Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
  • Understand the properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
  • Multiply and divide numbers within 100.
  • Solve problems using the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
  • Number and operations in Base Ten

  • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
  • Number and Operations – Fractions

  • Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
  • Measurement and Data

  • Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
  • Represent and interpret data.
  • Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and addition.
  • Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
  • Geometry

  • Reason with shapes and their attributes.
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      Last Updated 3/10/2020 11:38 AM