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Virginia Standards

3rd Grade Math SOL

All 12 Virginia math standards for 3rd grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Virginia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

12 standards

Number and Number Sense

4 standards
3.NS.1
Read and write numbers up to six digits in standard, expanded and word form, name each digit's place and value, and break numbers to 9,999 apart in different ways.
3.NS.2
Compare two numbers up to 9,999 with words or symbols like >, < and the not-equal sign, and put up to three such numbers in order from least to greatest or the reverse.
3.NS.3
Show fractions and mixed numbers in halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths or tenths with models, rename 5/4 as 1 1/4, find equivalents, and compare them.
3.NS.4
Count bills and coins up to $5.00, make a given amount, compare two money amounts, and make change from $5.00 or less by counting up or back.

Computation and Estimation

2 standards
3.CE.1
Add and subtract whole numbers up to 1,000 with strategies and the standard algorithm, estimate by rounding, decide when an estimate is enough, and solve story problems.
3.CE.2
Know multiplication facts through 10 × 10 and their division partners by heart, model them with groups, arrays and number lines, and solve one-step word problems.

Measurement and Geometry

4 standards
3.MG.1
Estimate, then measure length to the half inch or centimeter, weight in pounds or kilograms and liquid volume in cups to gallons or liters, and compare the two.
3.MG.2
Find the area of a surface by counting square units and the perimeter of a polygon with up to six sides by measuring or adding its sides, including in real situations.
3.MG.3
Tell time to the nearest minute on analog and digital clocks, and find a start time, end time or elapsed time in whole hours within one morning or afternoon.
3.MG.4
Tell polygons from other figures, name triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and octagons, and join or split three- and four-sided shapes to form new polygons.

Probability and Statistics

1 standard
3.PS.1
Pose a question, gather up to 30 data points, make a pictograph with a key or a scaled bar graph, then compare categories and solve one- and two-step problems.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

1 standard
3.PFA.1
Describe, extend and create patterns that grow or shrink by adding or subtracting, find missing terms, solve problems with them, and link two forms of the same pattern.

The official Virginia documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Virginia's standards, not the official wording, which Virginia Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.