Math Mammoth Grade 3-A Worksheets Collection contains worksheets for the first half of 3rd grade topics. Each sheet is one page, concentrating on one topic.

These aren't your 'run-of-the-mill' math worksheets. Each sheet in these two workbooks has been "hand-crafted" (not script-made), with varying problems that both emphasize understanding of concepts and practice computation, with variable word problems.

However, please note that these worksheets only contain problems, and not explanations of the mathematics. This is not a textbook but a workbook. However, the problems are very varying and laid out more 'dense', so this book is not really comparable to 'grocery-store' math workbooks.

The collection 3-A covers
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Place Value
- Multiplication Concept
- Multiplication Tables

You can find the latter half of 3rd grade topics in Math Mammoth Grade 3-B Worksheets Collection (3-B covers division, geometry, fractions and decimals, measuring and money, and graphs).

The 3-A worksheets start out with fairly simple mental addition and subtraction problems within 0-100 and accompanying word problems. Then comes place value practice with thousands (within 0-10,000), and adding/subtracting these four-digit numbers. Rounding and estimating are the last topics in this first segment and a few review worksheets follow.

The next segment is all about multiplication concept and practicing the times tables. There are worksheets for all aspects of the concept itself-such as multiplication 'both ways' (how it is commutative), or on number line, or multiplying by zero and one.

There is a separate worksheet for each of the multiplication tables. They are in a specific order with the easiest ones first. Each table builds upon the facts already studied. Little tricks to help memorization are also explained. The practice worksheets also feature a multiplication chart that has only those cells empty that the student has studied up to that point - and the rest of the facts are 'blocked out'.

Filling the chart after every few tables gives the student a lot of assurance in his abilities to memorize all the facts, because the ones still blocked out do not seem to be so many.

There are also two worksheets about multiplying 2-digit numbers, marked with an asterisk, since I consider these to be advanced for 3rd grade.

The collection contains 67 worsheet pages. You will also get a separate 17-page answer key file.

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