2014-15
Mathematics Pacing Guide Timeline
Third Grade

Month	Estimated Time of Unit	Unit Number	Unit Content	
September-Beginning October	5 weeks	1	Number and Operations in Base Ten
•	Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic	
ASSESSMENT	
Mid – October-November 	6 weeks	2	Operations and Algebraic Thinking
•	Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic (Addition and Subtraction)	
ASSESSMENT	
December 	1 week	3	Operations and Algebraic Thinking
•	Developing understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100
•	Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.	
ASSESSMENT	

Mid December -January
	7 weeks	4	Operations and Algebraic Thinking
•	Developing understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100
•	Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
•	Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic
•	Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.	
ASSESSMENT	
February	2 weeks	5	Operations and Algebraic Thinking
•	Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
•	Developing understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100
•	Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.	
ASSESSMENT	
Mid – 
February - March	6  weeks	6	Number and Operations Fractions
•	Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
•	Represent and interpret data
•	Reason with shapes and their attributes	
ASSESSMENT	
April	2 weeks	7	Measurement and Data
•	Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.	
ASSESSMENT	
Mid-April - May	2 weeks	8	Measurement and Data
•	Represent and interpret data (Graphing)	
ASSESSMENT	
Mid- May-June	5 weeks	9	Geometry
•	Describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes
•	Reason with shapes and their attributes
•	Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition	
ASSESSMENT