| Number: MA.3.A.1.In.a | Category: Independent |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 09/07 | Big Idea: BIG IDEA 1 : Develop understandings of multiplication and division and strategies for basic multiplication facts and related division facts. |
| Name | Description |
| MA.3.A.1.1: | Model multiplication and division including problems presented in context: repeated addition, multiplicative comparison, array, how many combinations, measurement, and partitioning. |
| Name | Description |
| 5012050: | Grade Three Mathematics |
| 7712040: | Access Mathematics Grade 3 |
| Name | Description |
| Everybody Wins! A Lesson for Third Graders (Division): | The lesson in narrative form gives students experience with the partitioning (sharing) model of division. "The context for the lesson is Sheila Bruce's book Everybody Wins! , Kane Press, 2001, in which Oscar, Emmy, Hugo, and Tony calculate how to share pizzas, baseball tickets, bubble gum, and more.
This narrative is from the introductory lesson in Maryann Wickett, Susan Ohanian, and Marilyn Burns's book, Teaching Arithmetic: Lessons for Introducing Division, Grades 3–4 (Math Solutions Publications,2002). This book is a revision of Math By All Means, Unit Division, Grades 3–4." (from Math Solutions Professional Development) |
| Hand Spans, A Lesson for Third and Fourth Graders (Division and Measurement): | A measurement activity to give students experience with the grouping model of division and practice with rulers and tape measures. |
| Name | Description |
| All About Multiplication: Bibliography: | List of five children's books with a multiplication focus (found on NCTM Illuminations site under "All About Multiplication"). |