Excerpt 5: Connections to other areas of Grade 3 (Pages 29-34)

Description: Explanations and examples of how to implement the Operations & Algebraic Thinking standards in Grade 3. Not only do measurement problems reinforce work with the four operations and whole numbers, but they also support operations with fractions, as illustrated in the task above and the task below. In fact, students did a lot of work with area to support understanding of multiplication and division.