State Curriculum - Mathematics

 
Grade 3
Standard 2.0 Knowledge of Geometry: Students will apply the properties of one-, two-, or three-dimensional geometric figures to describe, reason, or solve problems about shape, size, position, or motion of objects.
A. Plane Geometric Figures
1. Analyze the properties of plane geometric figures
a. Identify or describe points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles
b. Identify or describe polygons
    Assessment limit:
  • Use triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, or octagons and the number of sides or vertices
c. Identify or describe quadrilaterals
    Assessment limit:
  • Use squares, rectangles, rhombi, parallelograms, and trapezoids and the length of sides
d. Identify triangles, rectangles, or squares as part of a composite figure
    Assessment limit:
  • Use a combination of 2 of the stated polygons
2. Analyze geometric relationships
a. Identify right angles
B. Solid Geometric Figures
1. Analyze the properties of solid geometric figures
a. Identify and describe cubes, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms
    Assessment limit:
  • Use cubes and the number of edges, faces, vertices, or shape of each face
C. Representation of Geometric Figures
1. Represent plane geometric figures
a. Sketch triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and circles
D. Congruence
1. Analyze congruent figures
a. Identify and describe geometric figures as congruent
    Assessment limit:
  • Use the same shape and same size
E. Transformations
1. Analyze a transformation
a. Identify and describe the results of a slide, flip, and turn
    Assessment limit:
  • Use horizontal slide, flip over a vertical line, or turn of 90° clockwise around a given point of a geometric figure or picture
2. Analyze geometric figures or pictures
a. Identify and describe symmetry
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 4 lines of symmetry
 

Note: Highlighted assessment limits will be tested in the no calculator section of MSA. In the assessment limit, (0-10) or (-10 to 10) means all numbers in the problem or the answer will fall within the range of 0 to 10 (including endpoints) or -10 to 10 (including endpoints), respectively. All content standards are tested in MSA but not all objectives. Objectives that have an assessment limit are tested on MSA. Objectives without an assessment limit are not tested on MSA.

 

MSDE has developed a toolkit for these standards which can be found online at: http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/mathematics/vsc_toolkit.html.

 

June 2004