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Tell Time Using Clocks

(C) Determine the solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes using pictorial models or tools such as a 15-minute event plus a 30-minute event equals 45 minutes

CCSS Math: 3.MD.1

3.MD.1 Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.

This measurement and data lesson covers how to tell time by reading a clock. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to tell time to the nearest minute, using clocks that have minute marks and estimating for clocks without minute marks.

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Add & Subtract Time Intervals

TEKS Math: 3.7.C

CCSS Math: 3.MD.1

This measurement and data lesson covers how to solve problems involving the adding and subtracting of time intervals. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the time intervals in a word problem, determine whether to add or subtract, and then perform the operation and interpret the result.

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Solve Problems Involving Time Intervals

TEKS Math: 3.7.C

CCSS Math: 3.MD.1

This measurement and data lesson covers how to solve problems involving the calculating of time intervals. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the start time and end time and calculate the time interval, or they will identify the start time and the interval and calculate the end time.

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Draw a Picture Graph

TEKS Math: 3.8.A

(A) Summarize a data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals

CCSS Math: 3.MD.3

3.MD.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step "how many more" and "how many less" problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets.

This measurement and data lesson covers how to draw a picture graph. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the given data set, write the given categories in the picture graph, and determine how many pictures to draw for each category by dividing the category value by the key value.

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Draw a Bar Graph

TEKS Math: 3.8.A

(A) Summarize a data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals

CCSS Math: 3.MD.3

This measurement and data lesson covers how to draw a bar graph. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the given data set, write the given categories in the bar graph, and determine how high to draw the bar.

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Find the Area of Rectangles Using Multiplication

TEKS Math: 3.6.C

(C) Determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row

CCSS Math: 3.MD.7

3.MD.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

3.MD.7.D

3.MD.7.D Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.

This measurement and data lesson covers how to find the area of rectangles using multiplication. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the side lengths or a rectangle, and then multiply to find the area and interpret the result.

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Find the Area of Rectilinear Shapes

TEKS Math: 3.6.D

(D) Decompose composite figures formed by rectangles into non-overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original figure using the additive property of area

CCSS Math: 3.MD.7

3.MD.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

3.MD.7.D

This measurement and data lesson covers how to find the area of rectilinear shapes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will split the rectilinear shape into rectangles, find the area of each rectangle, and then find the area of the rectilinear shape by adding the areas of each rectangle.

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Find the Perimeter of a Polygon

TEKS Math: 3.7.B

(B) Determine the perimeter of a polygon or a missing length when given perimeter and remaining side lengths in problems

CCSS Math: 3.MD.8

3.MD.8 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.

This measurement and geometry lesson focuses on finding the perimeter of a polygon. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students add all side lengths of the polygon and interpret the perimeter using the correct units. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

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Categorize Quadrilaterals

TEKS Math: 3.6.B

(B) Use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories

AU Math: ACMMG042

(Y2) Describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without digital technologies (ACMMG042)

CCSS Math: 3.G.1

3.G.1 Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.

This geometry lesson covers the recognition of quadrilateral shapes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn the differences between a rectangle, rhombus, and square, and will categorize shapes as one of the three types of quadrilaterals or not a quadrilateral.