Use editing in his or her writing. The K-S mathematics program emphasizes the development of concept understandings and skills by actually involving children in doing and applying mathematics. All of the major strands of mathematics, induding numbers and numeration, whole number operations, fractions, probability and statistics, geometry, and measurement are taught in a developmentally appropriate fashion at each grade. Instruction extends addition and subtraction, emphasizes multiplication and introduces division of whole numbers. Fraction concepts, measurement and data gathering and analysis are applied to problem solving situations.
Students continue to explore the characteristics of geometric figures.
Recall multiplication facts to 10 xl0. The third grade program objectives support the teaching of age level appropriate inquiry, language arts, and problem solving skills as well as positive affltudes and content in science. Discuss the effects of friction, gravity, and other forces on the motion of an object. In the grade three social studies program, students explore conununities around the nation and the world. Building on the grade two focus on local rural, urban, and suburban comrnunities, grade three students extend their studies to our nation, its capital, and regions of the world.