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Features

  • Six questions on what the word problems unit builds on
  • Six multiplication facts and six division facts
  • Add and subtract three-digit numbers in columns
  • Round to the nearest ten and to the nearest hundred
  • A Score line, to sort the class before the unit
  • Answer key names the lesson each question leads into

Skills Covered

  • Multiplication facts
  • Division facts
  • Add and subtract within 1,000 in columns
  • Round to the nearest ten and hundred

How to Use This Pack

One page to give on the first day of the unit on word problems and multiplying by tens, before any teaching. Its six questions are on what the unit builds on: multiplication and division facts, adding and subtracting within 1,000 in columns, and rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day and sort the class by what they missed: the unit's stories are built on these facts, sums and differences, so a student who misses the facts needs fact practice beside the unit, and one who misses the columns or the rounding needs them before the two-step stories and estimating to check an answer. Nothing on the page is a story yet, so a low score is no surprise; it shows where to start.

At Home

Use it to see what your child needs before the unit starts: practice the multiplication and division facts that come up, and round prices or distances to the nearest ten and hundred together.

Tips for Success

  • Give it before the first lesson, not after
  • Read the score as a starting point, not a grade
  • A student who misses the facts needs fact practice beside the unit
  • The key names the lesson each question leads into

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 3.OA.C.7 Multiply and divide to 100 fluently with strategies, and by year's end instantly recall every product of two single-digit numbers.
  • 3.NBT.A.1 Use place value to decide which ten or hundred a whole number is closest to, and round to it.
  • 3.NBT.A.2 Add and subtract to 1,000 fluently using place-value strategies and written methods, properties of addition, and fact-family relationships.

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3rd Grade Word Problems Pre-Check

A check to give before the unit on word problems and multiplying by tens, on what it builds on. Students answer multiplication and division facts, add and subtract three-digit numbers in columns, and round to the nearest ten and hundred.

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (6 questions) with a Score line
  • An answer key that names each question's lesson and skill (2 pages in all)
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