Grade 03 Mathematics - EC: M03.B-O.3.1.4
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Which operation should you perform first in the following problems?
- 4 x 2 + 5
- 7 + 12 ÷ 2
- 9 – 3 + 6
- 8 + 2 x 9
- 10 + 5 – 7
- Use the order of operations to solve the following problems.
- 4 x 2 + 5
- 7 + 12 ÷ 2
- 9 – 3 + 6
- 8 + 2 x 9
- 10 + 5 – 7
- A soccer team was having a fundraiser selling baked goods. They made $52.50 in sales and they had three people just donate $25 each. The equation 52.50 + 3 x 25 represents this situation. How much did the team raise? Show your work.
- Compare the student work shown below to solve 9 + 2 x 6. Decide which student is correct and why.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Answers as follows:
- Multiplication
- Division
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Addition
- Answers as follows:
- 13
- 13
- 12
- 26
- 8
- $127.50
Acceptable work may include, but is not limited to:
52.50 + 3 x 25
= 52.50 + 75
= 127.50
- Jose is correct.
Acceptable explanations may include, but are not limited to:
- Jose used order of operations to solve
- Order of operations says to solve multiplication before addition
- Miguel didn’t follow order of operations and just solved the problem in the order it was given
