3.NBT.A Lesson Plans
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NBT.A
:"Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic."
These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Fluently Adding Within 1000
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Fluently Adding Within 1000
Adding big numbers can be tricky, but this lesson introduces your students to a strategy that makes it less intimidating! Using the place value strategy will make the task less daunting.
3rd Grade
Math
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Fluently Subtracting within 1000
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Fluently Subtracting within 1000
Start your students on subtracting three-digit numbers with this lesson that breaks the problems down by place values!
3rd Grade
Math
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Rounding Whole Numbers
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Rounding Whole Numbers
It's rounding time. Help young mathematicians learn to round to the nearest ten and hundred with this teacher-approved lesson.
3rd Grade
Math
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How Much is a Million?
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How Much is a Million?
One million is a hard number for young children to grasp. This lesson will help students understand how large of a number one million is and what is represents.
3rd Grade
Math
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What is My Place Value?
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What is My Place Value?
Expand on your students' knowledge of base ten numbers with this lesson that introduces the students to the place and value of digits within a number.
3rd Grade
Math
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Rounding Around the Room!
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Rounding Around the Room!
Help your students understand rounding without rhymes or tricks. Students will use an open number line to round and then take part in a fun game that will get them moving around the room.
3rd Grade
Math
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Round ‘Em Up!
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Round ‘Em Up!
A line, an arrow, and a simple rule are all that separate students from rounding success. This lesson will give young mathematicians an engaging overview of place values and rounding.
3rd Grade
Math
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Rounding Up or Down to the Nearest Ten
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Rounding Up or Down to the Nearest Ten
Your students will feel confident in their rounding abilities after this lesson that has them learn how to round numbers to the nearest ten both individually and with a group.
3rd Grade
Math
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Place Value: Digit Game
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Place Value: Digit Game
Help your students understand place values with this lesson that catches their interest using a story book. Students will go one to play a riddle game both in a group and individually.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplying One-Digit Numbers By 10
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Multiplying One-Digit Numbers By 10
Let students stretch their problem solving skills in this lesson that teaches them how to solve problems where one-digit numbers are multiplied by multiples of 10.
3rd Grade
Math
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Supply and Demand
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Supply and Demand
Do you want an interactive lesson that puts all the decision making in the palm of your students' hands? Supply and demand is a fun, interactive, and hands on activity that will help your students understand economics on a smaller scale.
3rd Grade
Math
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Rounding Up to the Nearest Hundred
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Rounding Up to the Nearest Hundred
This lesson helps students review rounding to the nearest hundred. Your students will practice rounding using manipulatives.
3rd Grade
Math
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Strategic Drawings
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Strategic Drawings
Help your students discover the power behind base ten drawings! Regrouping is a challenge for many students, but with this hands-on lesson, your students will be empowered with a new strategy to tackle difficult regrouping problems.
3rd Grade
Math
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Sweet Solutions
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Sweet Solutions
With this pastry themed lesson, your students will apply addition strategies to solve two-step, three-digit addition word problems. Finding the solutions will be sweet!
3rd Grade
Math
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Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction
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Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction
Can you break a ten? An everyday exchange of money can help students think about regrouping to subtract. Students will use bundled popsicle sticks to see how values grouped into tens can be regrouped into ones to allow us to subtract.
3rd Grade
Math
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“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing
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“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing
Many students cringe when they see a subtraction problem with multiple zeros. The “Subtract One” strategy in this lesson involves reducing the top number by one to turn the 0 digits into 9’s and then adding the one back in at the end.
3rd Grade
Math
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Subtraction with Regrouping
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Subtraction with Regrouping
Help your students subtract with confidence by sharing two different strategies. Use this lesson to build on students’ understanding of subtraction and to evaluate this key skill.
3rd Grade
Math
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Subtraction Detectives: Missing Numbers
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Subtraction Detectives: Missing Numbers
In this lesson, students must become detectives to solve for the missing number in each subtraction problem. They will develop and use their powers of mathematical reasoning using number bonds to find differences.
3rd Grade
Math
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Jump-A-Round
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Jump-A-Round
Get your students moving as they learn how to round whole numbers. In this lesson your students will use number lines and kinesthetic movement to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.
3rd Grade
Math
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Addition with Regrouping
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Addition with Regrouping
In this lesson, students will add three-digit numbers using expanded form addition and standard algorithm addition. They'll explain their answers and highlight the steps for each of the strategies.
3rd Grade
Math
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Borrowing Center
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Borrowing Center
Using base ten blocks, cards, and clear cups, your students will practice the concept of borrowing for subtraction problems in this lesson.
2nd Grade
Math
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Rounding Up and Down
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Rounding Up and Down
Give your students a head start in rounding with this fun lesson that gives them an easy trick to help them learn if they should round up or down to the nearest 10.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplying by Multiples of 10
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Multiplying by Multiples of 10
10, 20, 30, and up! In this lesson, students learn strategies for multiplying one-digit numbers by multiples of ten (10 through 90) through practice problems and playing a fun, hands-on game.
3rd Grade
Math
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Two-Step Word Problems with Mixed Operations - Gamified!
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Two-Step Word Problems with Mixed Operations - Gamified!
Students will have fun learning the Read, Draw, Write (RDW) strategy on two-step, mixed operation problems. First they will learn RDW, and then they will practice it in a game called Four in a Row.
3rd Grade
Math
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Make a Big Difference
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Make a Big Difference
Master rounding and estimating skills by having students challenge their classmates in the Make a Big Difference game. Roll three dice two times to arrive at two three-digit numbers. The largest difference wins!
3rd Grade
Math
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Hop! Hop! Hop!: Strategic Number Lines
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Hop! Hop! Hop!: Strategic Number Lines
With this movement-integrated lesson, students will use their energy to practice three-digit addition on a number line! Part of this lesson is designed for the outdoors, but the activities can easily be brought inside on a rainy day.
3rd Grade
Math
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Stepping Through Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
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Stepping Through Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
Use this lesson to teach your students how to determine if they should use addition, subtraction, or both operations to solve a word problem by following four simple steps.
3rd Grade
Math
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Strategies for Multiplying by Multiples of 10
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Strategies for Multiplying by Multiples of 10
Help your students become detail-oriented mathematicians as they explore two strategies for multiplying a one-digit number by a multiple of 10. Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside Multiplying by Multiples of 10.
3rd Grade
Math
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Third Grade Daily Sub Plan B
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Third Grade Daily Sub Plan B
Set your classroom up for success with this daily sub plan featuring lessons, worksheets, and activities! This resource is a great way to prepare for a substitute in your classroom. Your substitute can keep your third graders learning in your absence by using this packet of material. This teaching resource highlights fiction comprehension, creative writing, social studies skills, and math challenges.
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Thinking Deeply About Word Problems
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Thinking Deeply About Word Problems
Word problems can be overwhelming to students, but if they have a tool to help them, they can handle it! Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside Stepping Through Addition and Subtraction Word Problems.
3rd Grade
Math
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