Enduring Understanding

 

The student will understand:

  • Mathematics is used everyday by most individuals.
  • Businesses have to use basic mathematical concepts to control the flow of money to make a profit.
  • All individuals need to know how to add, subtract, divide and multiply for any job or occupation in life.
  • Mathematics learned in elementary school can be used well into adult life.
  • Mathematics like reading is used in other content areas such as science and social studies and needs to be understood in these other contexts.

 


 

Essential Questions

 

  • How can you tell the difference between a square, circle and triangle?
  • Why does the United States use the English system of measurement and not the metric system of measurement as its common measurement system?
  • Why would it be important to know the difference between dry and liquid measurement?
  • Why would a person need to know how to read data given at an airport?
  • How can a person read a graph and then use this information to make a prediction?
  • Why would a carpenter need to know the problems that incorrect angles can have on the house he is building?
  • Why is time considered a measurement?
  • Why would a person need to be able to figure out the probability of something happening?
  • Why would a store manager be happier if they made $875.35 instead of $87.53?
  • Why would a person want to split a whole pizza with someone rather than a half of a pizza?
  • How is ordering fractions similar to whole numbers and how is it different?

 

Content Topics

 

Unit 1

Fractions

 

Unit 2

Measurement

 

Unit 3

Decimals

 

Unit 4

Geometry

 

Unit 5

Data, Graph, Prob. & Prediction

 


 

Key Skills

 

  • Reading
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Basic Computations
  • Advance Computations
  • Application/Synthesis
  • Word Problem Comprehension
  • Data Gathering
  • Making of Charts and Graphs
  • Measurement

       


       

Assessments

 

  • Worksheets
  • Website practice
  • Quizzes
  • Tests
  • Projects
  • Posters
  • Powerpoint projects

 


 

Standards Alignment:

 

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Math Standards and Expectations

Grades 3-5

I. Number and Operations Standards

II. Algebra Standards

III. Geometry Standards

IV. Measurement Standards

V. Data Analysis and Probability Standards

VI. Problem Solving

VII. Reasoning and Proof

VIII. Communication

IX. Connections

 

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Mathematics

Grade 3

2.1.3. Numbers, Number Systems and Number Relationships

2.2.3. Computation and Estimation

2.3.3. Measurement and Estimation

2.4.3. Mathematical Reasoning and Connections

2.5.3. Mathematical Problem Solving and Communication

2.6.3.Statistics and Data Analysis

2.7.3.Probability and Prediction

2.8.3. Algebra and Function

2.9.3.Geometry

2.10.3.Trigonometry

2.11.3.Concepts of Calculus