3.OA Lesson Plans
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA
:"Operations and Algebraic Thinking"
These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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What's the Problem?
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What's the Problem?
High order thinking skills are critical skills for students of all ages. In this lesson, your students will create word problems about money.
2nd Grade
Math
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Solving Long Division Problems
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Solving Long Division Problems
Help your students put their best foot forward when it comes to this lesson that allows them to solve problems both in a group setting and individually.
3rd Grade
Math
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Bunches of Bunnies
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Bunches of Bunnies
Hop into multiplication! Introduce your class to times tables with this engaging math lesson. Students will read about the correlation between repeated addition and multiplication, and then create hands-on book pages to illustrate it.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplication Cups Competition
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Multiplication Cups Competition
Motivate your students by engaging them in a competition! In this lesson, your students will review and practice multiplication strategies.
2nd Grade
Math
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Multiplication R.A.C.E.
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Multiplication R.A.C.E.
Teach your students how to use a variety of representations when creating and solving word problems. Simple acronyms and visual aides help make learning multiplication a breeze.
3rd Grade
Math
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Divide it Up!
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Divide it Up!
Make division come to life with this hands-on, introductory lesson on the operation of division! Students will use authentic problems and manipulatives to experience division in action.
3rd Grade
Math
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Division: Solving for Unknown Factors
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Division: Solving for Unknown Factors
Help your class conquer division with this lesson that has them find the unknown factor using multiplication!
3rd Grade
Math
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Distribute to Multiply
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Distribute to Multiply
Introduce your students to the Distributive Property of Multiplication with this lesson that allows them to learn with their peers and then get some individual practice in.
3rd Grade
Math
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Robot Multiplication
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Robot Multiplication
Students will master multiplication with this inventive robot challenge! Your students will practice their math-fact fluency in this lesson plan.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplication Stories
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Multiplication Stories
Math can be made into short stories! Inspire your students to get creative with this lesson plan that will help them practice making and solving word problems.
2nd Grade
Math
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The Real Deal
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The Real Deal
Teach your youngsters the art of savvy shopping with this neat lesson on calculating price per item. After doing some division problems to compare the values of different products, students put their skills to the test with fun worksheets.
3rd Grade
Math
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Domino Multiplication
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Domino Multiplication
Don't knock the dominoes over! In this lesson, your students will practice multiplying by 2's with dominoes.
2nd Grade
Math
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Musical Chair Multiplication
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Musical Chair Multiplication
Get your students moving while practicing their multiplication facts! Bring an old favorite to the classroom as students move about and work problems out. This is a fun way to incorporate movement and learning with a twist.
3rd Grade
Math
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Do You Know Your Math Facts?
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Do You Know Your Math Facts?
In this lesson, your students will create their own math facts and practice them! They will understand that multiplication and division are opposites.
3rd Grade
Math
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Hands-On Multiplication
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Hands-On Multiplication
Students get hands-on practice playing this math multiplication game with their hands!
3rd Grade
Math
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Missing Numbers: Math Review
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Missing Numbers: Math Review
Help! The numbers in our equations have run away and left their answers alone! In this lesson, students will review their math facts and knowledge to solve Ken Ken like puzzles and bring the numbers back to their places.
3rd Grade
Math
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You're On a Roll! Practicing Multiplication Facts
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You're On a Roll! Practicing Multiplication Facts
Are your students struggling to remember their times tables? We all know the only way to remembering math facts is to practice! This hands-on lesson is a fun way for your class get the practice they need to master multiplication facts.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplication: Solving for Unknown Factors
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Multiplication: Solving for Unknown Factors
What's the unknown? In this lesson, your students will become familiar with strategies that can help them solve for the unknown factor in multiplication problems.
3rd Grade
Math
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Array Models in Multiplication
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Array Models in Multiplication
This lesson allows students to explore the concept of multiplication hands on. Kids will also come to understand why multiplication is important as well as how to solve multiplication problems using array models.
3rd Grade
Math
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Tens Multiplication Facts
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Tens Multiplication Facts
Students will get a chance to see and interact with solving tens multiplication facts in real world scenarios. They will finish this lesson confident in knowing how to solve 10s multiplication facts.
3rd Grade
Math
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Animal Spots: Multiplication Practice
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Animal Spots: Multiplication Practice
Animals and spots are used to make multiplication interesting! In this lesson, students will practice multiplying one digit numbers.
2nd Grade
Math
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Book Orders: Money
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Book Orders: Money
Don't throw away all of those extra copies of your book order forms! They make great springboards for math lessons. This lesson integrates them into activities designed to help young learners with money math.
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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Candy Multiplication
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Candy Multiplication
Delicious multiplication! In this sweet lesson, your students will learn how to relate multiplication to repeated addition using candy counters.
3rd Grade
Math
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Guess the Operation
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Guess the Operation
Want to strengthen your student’s multiplication and division skills? This lesson uses fact families to help students practice those skills.
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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Multiplication with Area Models
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Multiplication with Area Models
Teach your students to use an area model to solve multiplication problems with a two-digit factor.
3rd Grade
Math
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Parking Lot Multiplication
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Parking Lot Multiplication
Help your students make sense of the commutative property of multiplication by relating it to arrangements of cars in parking lots.
3rd Grade
Math
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Associative Property of Multiplication
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Associative Property of Multiplication
Teach your students to recognize and use the associative property of multiplication.
3rd Grade
Math
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Number Line Multiplication
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Number Line Multiplication
Teach your students to use number lines as a strategy to multiply two single-digit factors.
3rd Grade
Math
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