Using the Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 4s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 5s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Threes Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 3s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Sixes Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 6s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Twos Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 2s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Tens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 10s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Ones Song (Original Music Video), students practice counting by 1s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Shapes Song, students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition. The Shapes Song by Have Fun Teaching is a song that teaches the shapes. Shapes have names their made of angles and lines, there are flat shapes and solid shapes we see them all the…
Using the Counting By Nines Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 9s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Square Song (MP3), students learn all about squares, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Counting By Eights Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 8s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Elevens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 11s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting Songs (MP3 Album), students practice skip counting by all of the numbers by singing and counting along to these thirteen songs.
Using the Counting By Sevens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 7s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Adding 1 Song (Lyric Mjusic Video), students sing and practice adding 1 with all addition facts 1-15. Your kids will learn how to add 1.
Use the Adding Songs (Lyric Video Collection) to practice adding and addition facts by singing and adding these 15 addition songs. Great for addition facts!
Using the Shape Songs (MP3 Album), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using theCount to 100 Song (MP3), students practice counting to 100 by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging song!
Using the Shape Song (MP3), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
The year of multiplication
Third grade is the big multiplication year. Kids learn that 4 × 6 means four groups of six, connect it to division, and work toward knowing their facts within 100 by heart. They meet fractions as real numbers on a number line, find area by counting squares and then by multiplying, and measure perimeter around the outside. They also round to the nearest ten and hundred and add and subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping. The click is when a child sees that the area of a 3 by 5 rectangle is just 3 × 5 = 15.
Third grade math moves fast. These moves build real understanding and quick recall at the same time.
Show a rectangle on a grid and ask, "How many squares? How do you know?" One child counts, one skip counts by rows, one multiplies. Comparing strategies out loud is how kids discover that multiplying is the fastest route.
Why it works: using clear, consistent math words out loud is one of the U.S. Department of Education's recommendations for elementary math.
Try it withFinding the Area of Grid Shapes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Skip-counting songs are a ladder to multiplication facts. Sing the fours together, then ask, "What's the 6th number?" That's 4 × 6! Kids pull up facts by humming the tune.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withCounting By Fours Song (Original Music Video)SongsOpen it →Once multiplication and division are both on the table, mix them on the same practice page. Kids have to decide which operation each problem needs, which is exactly what tests and real life ask of them.
Why it works: mixing different kinds of problems in one practice set helped students do far better on a later test (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007).
Try it withThird Grade Multiplication and Division Test Practice WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Third graders are competitive in the best way. These are class favorites.
WorksheetsKids design a dream bedroom on graph paper and find the area of every room. The biggest closet always wins the debate.
Open Finding the Area by Multiplying Worksheet →
WorksheetsDraw animal pens and measure the fence needed to go all the way around. That's perimeter!
Open Finding Shape Perimeter Worksheet →
AssessmentsA mixed practice set before the state test helps kids see every kind of question once.
Open Third Grade Math Test Practice Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video), Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video) and Counting By Threes Song (Original Music Video).
Most 3rd graders know multiplication and division facts within 100, understand fractions as numbers on a number line, find area and perimeter, round to the nearest ten and hundred, and add and subtract within 1,000.
Start with the easy ones: 2s, 5s and 10s. Skip-count songs and short daily practice of five minutes work better than long drills. Point out that every fact gives you a free partner: if 3 × 7 is 21, so is 7 × 3.
Area is the space inside a shape, measured in square units. Perimeter is the distance around the outside. A quick trick: area covers, perimeter walks around.
Kids learn that a fraction like 3/4 means three equal parts out of four. They place fractions on a number line, compare fractions with the same top or bottom number, and find simple equivalent fractions like 1/2 = 2/4.
In most states, yes. Third grade is often the first year of state testing. Short practice with mixed question types helps kids feel calm and ready.
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