3rd Grade: Units 11-15 What makes our products so unique? Our products are meticulously designed by experts to ensure mastery of the STAAR test, employing a detailed and multifaceted program: Math Vocabulary and Guided Questions: Each unit introduces new math vocabulary and guided questions that can serve as the objective of the day or daily goals for teachers. This approach enhances understanding and application of mathematical concepts and terms, facilitating clearer communication and deeper learning. Unit Year Planning: Our curriculum breaks down each TEK into manageable segments, scaffolding learning for complete mastery. This methodical approach allows students to fully understand each part of the TEK as it is taught throughout the lessons, making the process more straightforward for educators. Daily Spirals: We have structured our math program to ensure continuous review by revisiting all previously taught skills each week, thus ensuring mastery. Normally, by the 7th unit, students are reviewing over 15 skills bi-weekly, covering all material from the first four units. (HIghlight daily spiral by teks. Problem Solving Process: Each unit introduces students to a thought-provoking problem-solving process that stirs curiosity and enhances analytical thinking skills. Problem Solving Questions: Beyond the daily spirals, each lesson features problem-solving questions, also known as Problem of the Day (P.O.D.) questions, that reinforce the previously taught lesson's skills. Vertically Aligned Pre-Assessments: Our approach begins each unit with a succinct pre-assessment that aligns vertically with the new TEKs introduced, enabling focused and effective learning. Guided Practice: Every unit includes guided practice sections designed to effectively teach new TEKs/Skills. These can be utilized alongside our engaging animated instructional videos, enhancing the learning experience. Skill Building/Independent Practice: Lessons are designed to strengthen students’ math skills and problem-solving abilities through word problems, including STAAR 2.0 questions marked by a small star symbol. Homework: We incorporate homework into the lessons to enable students to reinforce the concepts and skills learned in the classroom at home. Games: Each unit contains fun and educational games that reinforce the skills learned in each lesson, making learning enjoyable and effective. Checkpoints: At the end of each lesson, checkpoints feature a writing exercise and a problem-solving question to assess comprehension and consolidate learning. Practice and Unit Assessments: Reflecting the STAAR test's rigor, each unit includes a practice assessment and a comprehensive unit assessment featuring STAAR 2.0 questions. Standards: 3.4K Solve one‐step and two‐step problems involving multiplication and division within 100 using strategies based on objects; pictorial models, including arrays, area models, and equal groups; properties of operations; or recall of facts. 3.5B Represent and solve one‐ and two‐step multiplication and division problems within 100 using arrays, strip diagrams, and equations. 3.5E Represent real‐world relationships using number pairs in a table and verbal descriptions. 3.6B 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. 3.6A Classify and sort two‐ and three‐dimensional figures, including cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular and rectangular prisms, and cubes, based on attributes using formal geometric language. 3.6C 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. 3.6D Decompose composite figures formed by rectangles into non‐overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original figure using the additive property of area. 3.7B Determine the perimeter of a polygon or a missing length when given perimeter and remaining side lengths in problems. 3.7D Determine when it is appropriate to use measurements of liquid volume (capacity) or weight? 3.7E Determine liquid volume (capacity) or weight using appropriate units and tools. 3.7C 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. 3.8A Summarize a data set with multiple categories using frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals. 3.8B Solve one‐ and two‐step problems using categorical data represented with a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals. 3.9A Explain the connection between human capital/labor and income. 3.9B Describe the relationship between the availability or scarcity of resources and how that impacts cost. 3.9D Explain that credit is used when wants or needs exceed the ability to pay and that it is the borrower's responsibility to pay it back to the lender, usually with interest. 3.9E List reasons to save and explain the benefit of a savings plan, including for college. Save time on planning! This math bundle INCLUDES: Unique Design and Content Vertically Aligned Pre-Assessments Problem-Solving & Daily Spiral Reviews TEKS and Other State Standards based Formative/Summative Assessments Independent and Guided Practice Interactive Games and Activities Homework Assignments Super STAAR 2.0 Questions Interactive Activities Why purchase STEAMspirations Products? Created by High Performing teachers that have years of successful classroom experience Includes Lessons that are aligned to state standards Provides pre-assessments, checkpoints, practice assessments, and assessments that help measure and monitor student growth and progress Empower students to monitor their own progress, learn at their own pace, and become self-directed Provides students with engaging activities Provides at-home support Empowers students to use technology as a learning tool Helps identify student gaps (pre-assessment) for targeted learning through pre-assessments Facilitates planning Provide high-quality instructional material for high-impact tutoring Prepares students for STAAR 2.0 Questions Have a plan in place that supports virtual instruction If you're looking for a research-based high quality and engaging Math Curriculum, then please check out our Mathtastico! Lite resources. These are custom tailored for the amazing teachers educating the children of tomorrow. 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