Grade 3 ILEARN Math Checkpoint 2 Practice

What Checkpoint 2 covers in grade 3, items to try, the mistakes students make most, and the practice that goes with it.

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What Checkpoint 2 covers

7 standards, 6 marked essential. Short names in our own words.

3.CA.3Model multiplication: groups, arrays, number linesEssential
3.CA.4Model division: partition, share, inverseEssential
3.CA.5Multiplication and division strategiesEssential
3.CA.7Multiplication and division word problemsEssential
3.CA.8Number patterns and rules
3.NS.2Model unit and non-unit fractionsEssential
3.NS.3Fractions on a number lineEssential

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3.CA.5Approaching

Which expression is equal to 7 × 4?

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3.NS.2At Proficiency

You want to shade a strip that is divided into 8 equal parts to show the fraction 58.

How many of the 8 equal parts should be shaded?

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3.CA.7Above Proficiency

A theater has 7 rows with 8 seats in each row. 50 of the seats are already filled.

How many seats are still empty?

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Where students go wrong

The most common mistake on each standard, and what to do about it, from the teacher pages in the Checkpoint 2 intervention.

3.CA.3

Counting the array instead of reading it

What it looks like: A 6 by 7 array of desks answered by counting all 42 one at a time — often correctly, and slowly. It looks like success until the array gets big or is only partly drawn.
What to do: Cover all but the first row and ask how many. Then ask how many rows. The two numbers are the whole multiplication.

3.CA.4

Dividing in the wrong order

What it looks like: "10 pencils shared among 5 students" worked as 5 ÷ 10. The total and the number of groups have swapped places, and the answer is a fraction where a whole number was wanted.
What to do: Name the total out loud before writing anything. The total is what gets cut up, so it goes inside.

3.CA.5

Treating every fact as separate

What it looks like: 7 × 6 is known but 6 × 7 is recomputed, and 42 ÷ 7 is treated as an unrelated problem.
What to do: One array, four facts. Turn the array a quarter turn and it is the other multiplication; read it backwards and it is the two divisions.

3.CA.7

Choosing the operation from the size of the numbers

What it looks like: A problem with a big number and a small one gets divided regardless of the situation, because dividing is what you do to make big numbers smaller.
What to do: Ask whether the story is putting equal groups together or splitting something into equal groups. That decides it; the sizes do not.

3.CA.8

Reading the pattern as an addition when it is a multiplication

What it looks like: 6, 12, 18, 24 continued as 30 correctly, but a table of fives is extended by adding 5 each time rather than seen as 5 times the position.
What to do: Ask for the rule in words, then ask what the tenth term is. A student who can only add cannot answer without listing everything in between.

3.NS.2

Reading the denominator as the number of shaded parts

What it looks like: A rectangle in 6 parts with 4 shaded named as 64, or as 44. The two numbers are both on the page and the student has not fixed which goes where.
What to do: Bottom names the piece, top counts them. Say "sixths" first, then count how many sixths.

3.NS.3

Counting tick marks instead of intervals

What it looks like: A line from 0 to 1 for eighths gets 8 marks drawn between the ends, making nine spaces. Off by one every time, and the error is invisible unless you count the gaps.
What to do: Count the SPACES, not the lines. Eighths means eight equal jumps from 0 to 1, which needs seven marks in between.

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The grade 3 screener: two items per standard, a class tracker and a page that says where each student goes next.

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Checkpoint 2 Practice

140 practice items at three levels.

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Checkpoint 2 Intervention & Reteach

A teacher page, reteach page, practice, error analysis and exit ticket for each standard.

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Checkpoint 2 Bundle

The practice set and the intervention together.

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Independent practiceIndependent practice for the Indiana ILEARN Math assessment. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Indiana Department of Education. Standard names are short summaries in our own words; see IDOE for the official text.