3RD GRADE ADDITION & SUBTRACTION: 8 Skills-Boosting Practice Worksheets

Students will add & subtract multi-digit numbers (within 1000) & solve word problems with ease! Use these scaffolded math drills to teach and reinforce the fundamentals, or prep for test day.  Need to teach students how to find an unknown number using subtraction?  This unit covers it, plus regrouping/borrowing and using common addition & subtraction keywords to solve word problems!

Each printable begins with a mini-lesson followed by several Common Core designed, simulated test questions (including two-part and open response). Drills contain tips & scaffolding to guide students, allowing you more time to work with struggling students.

Save 12% with the Number & Operations (Base 10) Bundle, or 20% with the complete 3rd Grade Math Bundle!

THIS UNIT INCLUDES:

• 8 math drills, with 37+ test-caliber math problems
• Mini-lessons at the top of each drill, with tips & scaffolding
• Unassisted version without tips & scaffolding
• Digitally enabled (Easel Activities) version to assign via Google Classroom or any LMS

COVERS ADDITION & SUBTRACTION COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR THIRD GRADE

Lessons include:

• Adding & subtracting 3-digit numbers, involving regrouping & borrowing
• Using fact families, parts & total diagrams and subtraction to find an unknown number
• Using addition & subtraction keywords to help solve one & two-step word problems

BASED ON STANDARDIZED TESTS, INCLUDING:

• Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
• State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) / TEKS 
• Florida FSA (same test vendor creates FAST progress monitoring assessments)
• New York State Testing Program (NYSTP)
• Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR)
• Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS)
• Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) 
• Ohio’s State Tests 
• North Carolina Ready End-of-Grade Assessment (NC Ready EOG)
• Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP)
• New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA)
• Arizona’s Academic Standards Assessment (AASA, formerly AzM2)

USEFUL IN MANY WAYS

All drills take 10 - 15 minutes to complete, and terrific for:

• Mini-lessons 
• Guided or independent practice
• Test prep* (with effective test-taking strategies)
• Intervention groups (RTI) / small group remediation & instruction 
• Small group work 
• Independent work 
• Progress monitoring/checks 
• Homework
• Morning work / bell ringers / do now / warm-ups
• Review/reteach, including remedial lessons for 4th & 5th grade students
• Tutoring (targeted, high-dosage skills work)
• Word problems practice
• Exit slips or tickets to assess mastery
• Math centers
• Early finishers work    
• After-school programs / extended school days 
• Learning packets for anticipated school closings / snow days
• Winter/spring/summer vacation reading packets 
• Summer school programs / summer bridge activities 
• Substitute teacher lesson plans & activities 
• Homeschool lessons 
• Absent student make up work
• *including math summative assessments such as: SBAC for California, Washington, Oregon, Connecticut, Nevada & other member states, Virginia VA SOL, Tennessee TNReady, Massachusetts MCAS, Maryland MCAP, Colorado CMAS, PARCC and more

BOOST YOUR MATH TOOLKIT!

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• Place Value
• Rounding
• Addition & Subtraction (you are here)
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ALIGNED WITH 3RD GRADE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

3.NBT.A.2: Fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

COMMON CORE MATH DRILLS FOR GRADE 3

Each math unit can be purchased individually, or within a savings bundle.

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3RD GRADE MATH! ✏ ✏ ✏ ✏

♥ Operations & Algebraic Thinking ✏ ✏ ✏

• Multiplication & Division
• Two-Step Word Problems
• Arithmetic (Number) Patterns

♥ Number & Operations in Base Ten ✏ ✏

• Place Value
• Rounding
• Addition & Subtraction

♥ Number & Operations - Fractions ✏ ✏

• Fractions Inside Out!
• Fractions on a Number Line

♥ Measurement, Data & Geometry ✏ ✏ ✏

• Telling & Writing Time
• Measuring Volume, Mass, & Length
• Bar Graphs, Pictographs, Line Plots & Tally Charts
• Finding Area
• Finding Perimeter
• Geometry