Grade 3 • Mathematics Overview

Grade 3 Mathematics

Overview

The Howard County Public School System’s mathematics program is crafted so that every student has access to and is successful with rigorous mathematics. The HCPSS Mathematics Curriculum is modeled after the Maryland College and Career Ready Standards. It demands that students develop a depth of understanding and ability to apply mathematics to real-life situations as college students and employees regularly do.

In prekindergarten through grade 8 mathematics, the standards lay a solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. Students develop understanding of concepts, procedures, and applications of mathematics. Elementary students develop fluency with number and operations. Taken together, these elements support a student’s ability to learn and apply more demanding mathematics concepts and procedures in middle and high school.

Howard County’s mathematics programs call on students to practice applying mathematical ways of thinking to real world issues and challenges; they require students to think and reason mathematically. Children mature mathematically at different paces, throughout each grade level, and demonstrate various levels of implementation of
the practices. These behaviors develop over time and often emerge during certain learning activities and through the study of specific, critical mathematics topics and standards.

Students of mathematics have daily opportunities to develop how to think and reason mathematically. They develop behaviors of mathematically proficient students who

  1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  4. Model with Mathematics.
  5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  6. Attend to precision.
  7. Look for and make use of structure.
  8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Does your 3rd grader multiply and divide within 100?

Does your 3rd grader understand what division means?

Can your 3rd grader do word problems with multiplication and division?