Building Blocks of 3rd Grade Math

Building Blocks of 3rd Grade Math is the year-round edge that separates students who passed a unit from students who truly own it. Designed for driven 3rd graders already working through math in school, this class goes deeper on the skills that classmates only surface-level covered — place value through the millions, multi-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping, mental math strategies, and translating word problems into the right operation with confidence. Every session reinforces the foundational concepts that future units, future courses, and standardized tests will test again and again. If you want to walk into every math class knowing the fundamentals cold — not just well enough — this is the class that gets you there.

Make the Basics Automatic When a student is still working hard on an earlier skill, like adding and subtracting within 100 or skip counting, there's little attention left for the new idea that builds on it. We revisit those foundations until they're automatic, so students' brainpower goes where it's needed most.

Lock In This Year's Learning The school year moves fast, and students are often just on the cusp of getting a topic when the next unit begins. We circle back to key 3rd grade concepts from earlier in the year, like multiplication facts or rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, that later units depend on.

Tackle What's in Front of You Whatever unit your class is in right now, from multiplication and division to fractions, area, and perimeter, students get guided practice and clear strategies for the kinds of problems they're seeing in school this month.

Preview What's Next Wouldn't we all love a sneak peek at our next challenge before the clock starts ticking and the points start counting? We preview upcoming concepts, like fractions on a number line or the area of combined shapes, so new topics feel familiar instead of intimidating.