Québec · Grade 3

Mathematics

Three competencies: solving situational problems, reasoning with mathematical concepts and processes, communicating with mathematical language

Content is set for the two-year cycle (Cycle Two); teachers spread it over the two years.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

AArithmetic

Natural numbers less than 100 000; fractions and equivalent fractions; decimals to hundredths; adding and subtracting up to 4-digit numbers; multiplying 3-digit by 2-digit numbers

GGeometry

Cartesian plane (first quadrant); describing and classifying prisms and pyramids, nets; polygons, quadrilaterals, parallel and perpendicular lines; reflections

MMeasurement

Millimetre; perimeter; area in square units; volume; angles (right, acute, obtuse); capacity, mass and time

SStatistics

Tables, bar graphs, pictographs and broken-line graphs

PProbability

Listing outcomes with tables and tree diagrams; predictions vs actual results