Teacher Cristina O’Farrill

2017-2018

Unit: 2 Topic 8 : Grade Level:

Use Strategies and Properties to Add and Third Grade
Subtract Time Frame:
2 Weeks
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Content Standards – Established Goals
3.NBT.A. Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit
arithmetic.
3.NBT.A.2 Fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using strategies and algorithms based on
place value, properties of operations, and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
MP.1. Listen and look for students who analyze the numbers in the problem and understand the
math they can use to find the total.
3.OA.D Solve problems involving the four operations, and identity and explain patterns in
arithmetic.
3.OA.D.9 Identify arithmetic patterns, and explain them using properties of operations.
MP.3 Critic Reasoning
MP.4 Model with Math
MP.5 Use Appropriate Tools Strategically
MP.6 Be Precise
MP.7 Use Structure, Look for Relationships
MP.8. Generalize
Understanding: Essential Questions:

* There are different ways of solving addition How can sums and differences be estimated
and subtraction real world problems. and found mentally?
Knowledge: Skills:
- Some real-world problems that involve -Solve real-world problems using properties of
joining, separating, part-part whole or addition.
comparing can be solved using -Identify patterns in the addition table and
addition. Two or more numbers can be explain them using algebraic thinking.
added in any order, and the sum of any - Use place value and a number line to round
number and 0 is that number. numbers.
- Generalizations about how addition -Use mental math to add and subtract.
works emerge from investigating - Use rounding or compatible numbers to
patterns and reasoning about estimate a sum.
mathematical relationships.
- Rounding is a process for finding
multiples of 10 and 100, closest to a
given number.
- There is more than one way to do
mental math. Techniques involve
changing the numbers or the
expressions so that calculations are
easy to do mentally.
 Teacher Cristina O’Farrill
2017-2018

Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence

Performance Task: Other Evidence:
Performance Assessment Test
(Pages 469,470) Quizzes: 1
Notebook
Classwork
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
W - Review what you know. Introduce essential questions and topic with class discussion.
E- My Word Cards (W.B. pages 403-404) Cut and glue on notebook.
R- Using a small white board, students will solve different problems presented during the
online lesson.
T, R -Visit the technology center to work individually on the online program “practice
buddy”.
E- Work on pages 407-452
H, R- With a partner play a subtraction and addition game. Use a deck of cards with
numbers 1-9.
O- Performance Task on pages 469-470. Work in small groups to find the solution to each
step.

* Vol. 2 of our math curriculum will be used during the first semester to help students have a better
understanding of third grade math skills.