What is your child doing in 3rd grade math now?

[princesspumpkin]

I'm always concerned about my DD's school curriculum and how it compares to the rest of the country. So, what has your third grader been doing in math since the beginning of the year?

 

[DIZNYFAN]

Algebra and fractions so far.

 

[momof2inPA]

Division with remainders, fractions and mixed fractions, decimals.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

hmmm...my daughter is having a hard enough time in math, and she's not doing that stuff yet...
she's saying somethin about 'ordinal numbers'..lol I'm bad at math too...math is her daddy's area.
They are doing long subtraction and carrying numbers over. And, word problems.
Weird thing is..this county is a couple steps ahead the county we moved from...but maybe that's why Georgia doesn't test so well

 

[padams]

DS' school uses the Everyday Math program. Since the beginning of 3rd grade, a month ago, DS has been reviewing addition and subtraction.

 

[crs7568]

My daughter is working on addition, subtraction, and word problems. They are also working on "skip counting" which is really multiplication. I can't believe some 3rd graders are doing division already.

 

[momof2inPA]

Mine's a homeschool program, K12, and we're more than half way through the year. Guess I should have mentioned that. I looked at the book, and the beginning third grade is skip counting, geometry sides, edges and corners, and adding/subtracting 3 and 4 digit numbers.

 

[allicat]

Padams- Dont even get me started on that Everyday Math program! I found that as soon as DD's district switched to that program the pace slowed down and there is no emphasis on memorization of times tables etc.

 

[padams]

Allicat- I don't like the Everyday Math program at all. Parents at our school have complained enough about Everyday Math that the school switched to a traditional Holt textbook for grades 4-6 this year. I wish the school would have switched the lower grades to a different program as well.

The Everyday Math worksheets that my 1st grader brings home drive me crazy. Last week, he had to cut out pictures of prices under $1 from the newspaper. Even the produce ads in the food section were too "expensive".

I really don't see what was wrong with the old fashioned method of doing worksheets full of addition, multiplication, etc. problems.

 

[missyc]

Originally posted by padams
Allicat- I don't like the Everyday Math program at all. Parents at our school have complained enough about Everyday Math that the school switched to a traditional Holt textbook for grades 4-6 this year. I wish the school would have switched the lower grades to a different program as well.

The Everyday Math worksheets that my 1st grader brings home drive me crazy. Last week, he had to cut out pictures of prices under $1 from the newspaper. Even the produce ads in the food section were too "expensive".

I really don't see what was wrong with the old fashioned method of doing worksheets full of addition, multiplication, etc. problems.

Wish that's what we had! Would make homework time so much easier on ME!!

 

[TammiMcMan]

Since early September she has done addition, subtraction and place value review. They are now working on fractions, multiplication and graphing.

 

[firecracker]

my 3rd grade daughter is doing addition and subtraction in the hundreds, "renaming" (which was carrying back in the day), and estimation and rounding.

 

[ahutton]

I remember on my first trip to WDW in spring of 3rd grade I was doing multiplication and division of 3+ digit numbers and had long remainders and such... I was doing homework in our room in the evenings.