PEIMS Course Title/Number:

Mathematics 3/02640030

Prerequisite Requirements:

Course completion or grade-level placement by K¹² placement exam.

Course of Instruction/Lesson Description:

The K¹² Math program offers a carefully structured sequence of lessons designed to help students make steady progress from fundamental skills to more complex mathematical concepts. Third grade math students continue to develop computational skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and solve problems involving more complex mathematical concepts.

The instructional plan for the primary grades emphasizes:

• An active, multisensory, hands-on approach, using manipulatives—such as counters, place-value rods, shapes, and blocks—to ensure that children understand the concrete realities that underlie mathematical concepts (such as shape, length, quantity, more and less, addition and subtraction).
• Regular practice, review, and assessment to ensure mastery of basic skills.
• Online games and animations to motivate, instruct, and illustrate concepts.

A typical daily lesson is structured as follows:

• Skills Update: Usually in an online activity, the student reviews concepts and reinforces skills from previous lessons.
• Teach: New skills and concepts are introduced and explained, sometimes through online activities or animations.
• Practice: The student practices by applying skills and concepts introduced in the lesson.
• Lesson Assessment: The student takes a brief assessment to check understanding of the lesson objectives.
• Beyond the Lesson: If the student wishes, he or she can complete optional activities, such as extra practice or "Challenge" problems.

Major course expectations include the following. Students will:

• Work with and communicate about larger numbers and decimals.
• Study place value and estimating using rounding.
• Develop calculation skills using place value blocks to understand addition, subtraction, and regrouping.
• Establish fluency with simple addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication number facts.
• Conduct and interpret simple probability experiments.
• Collect statistical data and use bar charts and pictographs to organize or represent data.
• Use fraction models, names, and symbols to demonstrate understanding of fraction concepts.
• Add and subtract fractions and decimals.
• Measure perimeters of geometric shapes.
• Measure temperature and time.
• Use graphs and charts to understand how data can be represented visually.
• Name, compare, and describe geometric shapes.
• Use objects, words, pictures, and numbers to communicate strategies for solving word problems.

Lesson Numbers/Duration:

180 total, including 22 optional.

Online Importance:

K¹²'s Math program provides step-by-step guidance in each lesson. Some activities are presented online, while others are presented offline.

Important activities are available only online, such as math games or computer animations. These activities range from skills update activities that help keep the student's skills sharp, to games that reinforce crucial concepts and skills. The skills and concepts that are taught and reinforced with online activities are ones that research has shown are key to understanding mathematics.

The Teacher Guide provides explanatory information as well as information about assessment and supplemental material to support each student. The Teacher Guide is available as printed material as well as online.

Monitoring Student Progress:

Each Math lesson ends with an assessment. The assessment generally includes four to eight questions or problems based on the lesson objectives.

Students and parents can access student-specific screens to determine (1) progress in the number of lessons completed, (2) the lesson assessment (percentage mastered), (3) the semester assessment (percentage mastered), and (4) the number of times the student has taken the assessment instruments. Families who enroll their children in the eCP program have the benefit of help and guidance from an experienced teacher. Consistent progress monitoring by the teacher will be utilized throughout the project period.

Schedule for Monitoring Student Progress:

Each teacher will establish a daily contact schedule for their assigned students at a time of day that is reasonably convenient for both parties. Contacts may be asynchronous/synchronous or one-on-one/groups. The avenues of teacher initiated contact will be adjusted as determined by the progress a student makes through their learning plan. Parent- and student-initiated contact with teachers can happen at any time. The Acting Director, or their designee, will monitor the communication logs to ensure that parents are being routinely supported and informed regarding the student's ongoing progress and participation.

In addition, teachers will monitor progress in mastery of objectives and lesson completion on a weekly basis. Continuous progress monitoring by the assigned teacher ensures that parents are informed on a regular basis regarding progress and participation.

Required Instructional Materials:

Materials K¹² provides:

• K¹² Math Textbook, Grade 3
• Base 10 Deluxe Set

Other materials:

• Notebook
• Coins and bills or printouts of provided sheets

Standardized Assessment Instruments:

End-of-Course Exams developed by Texas Tech, University of Texas, or K12 Inc.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Compliancy:

Side-by-side comparisons of TEKS and the content of each course have been developed and reviewed to ensure that the online curriculum meets or exceeds the TEKS.

Grading/Credit Award Criteria:

A course grade in the content areas will be determined by the score on the End-of-Course Exam from either Texas Tech University or the University of Texas. The course grade in art, music, health and PE will be determined by percent of lessons completed and mastered. A student will be promoted to the next grade level by passing three of the four End-of-Course Exams administered in a proctored environment, and the average of the four End-of-Course Exams must be at least 70%.