All 3rd Grade Math Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #1 : Number Sense
What is rounded to the nearest ten?
When we round a number to the tens place we look to our ones place to tell us if we round up or down.
If the number in our ones place is or greater, we round up. If the number in the ones place is or less, we round down. When we round up, the number in the tens place increases by . The numbers to the right of the tens place become and the numbers to the left of the tens place stay the same. When we round down, the number in the tens place stays the same. The numbers to the right of the tens place become and the numbers to the left of the tens place stay the same.
In this case, is equal to so our rounded number is
Example Question #2 : Number Sense
What is rounded to the nearest hundred?
When we round a number to the hundreds place we look to our tens place to tell us if we round up or down.
If the number in our tens place is or greater, we round up. If the number in the tens place is or less, we round down. When we round up, the number in the hundreds place increases by and all the other numbers become . When we round down, the number in the hundreds place stays the same and all the other numbers become .
In this case, is less than so our rounded number is
Example Question #1 : 3rd Grade Math
Solve:
Multiplication can be thought of as repeated addition, or as objects in a group.
means adding three times.
and
Or we can think of this as grouping objects. We have groups, with objects in each group. We can count up the total number of objects, in this case triangles.
Example Question #2 : Operations
Solve:
When we are dividing, we are splitting things up into groups. For this problem, we can think of this as we have items and we want to split them up equally into groups. We are solving for the number of items in each group.
We can draw circles and start putting the items, in this case triangles, into each circle equally.
Our answer is the number of items in group. In this case, there are triangles in each of the groups so our answer is .
Example Question #1 : Geometry
What is the area of the rectangle?
The formula to find area is .
We are given the length and the width from the problem, so we can plug those values into our equation and solve.
*Area is the number of square units inside a shape, which is why area is always written with square units.
Example Question #2 : Geometry
What is the area of the figure below?
To find the area of the figure above, we need to slip the figure into two rectangles.
Using our area formula, , we can solve for the area of both of our rectangles
To find our final answer, we need to add the areas together.
Example Question #1 : Measurement
Megan is working on a science experiment. Using the scale below, how much water will she have if she adds more grams of water?
Megan has of water and when she adds she will have
Example Question #1 : 3rd Grade Math
What fraction of the circle is green?
The circle is split up into equal parts. of the parts are shaded green, which means of the circle is green.
Example Question #2 : 3rd Grade Math
What fraction of the rectangle is purple?
The rectangle is split into equal parts, and of those parts are shaded purple.
of the rectangle is purple.
can be reduced because both the denominator and the numerator can be divided by
Example Question #3 : 3rd Grade Math
Select the fraction that is equivalent to
We can make number lines to help us solve this problem:
The two lines above are the same length. The top line is split into pieces and the bottom line is split into pieces.
and are equivalent because they occupy the same position on the number line.