Third Grade Multiplication & Division Project | Circus Party Math Project

Differentiated multiplication project! Third and Fourth grade math project with Digital project option included! Google Slides versions included!

Scaffolds learning the problem-solving process! Multiplication and Division Fluency! Use for Math Centers, Early Finishers, Small Group Instruction or Purposeful Practice! Plan a Circus Party is perfect for advanced third grade math, on-grade level fourth grade math or fifth grade math students who need more story problem practice! Realistic application problems in a fun and engaging project-based learning activity!

Using the Project Based Learning approach, this project reinforces multiplication and division fluency as well as single and multi-step story problem solving strategies! Students choose the number of guests to invite to the party so they can do the same project again and again and the answers will be different depending on the number of guests they invite! *Answer key is included for 7-12 guests!

It is perfect for advanced 3rd grade students, on grade-level fourth grade students or below grade level 5th grade students. It is aligned to standards 3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.2 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.B.4, 3.OA.B.6, 3.OA.C.7, 3.OA.D.8, 3.NBT.A.3, 3.NBT.A.3, 4.OA,A.1, 4.OA.A.2, 4.OA.A.3,4.NBT.B.5, 4.NBT.B.6. Skills include:

• Multiplication and division fact fluency
• Single step story problems
• Multi-step contextual problems including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Interpreting factors, products, dividends, divisors and quotients
• Solving contextual problems involving the four operations including interpreting remainders
• Fluently adding and subtracting within 10,000
• Multiplying one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10
• Solve contextual problems involving multiplicative comparison
• Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by one-digit whole numbers and multiply two two-digit numbers
• Find whole number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors

There are 2 versions of the project, designed to be differentiated for your class and to help scaffold students towards independent problem solving. Each version is 28 pages and includes 5 different parts of planning the party (each part includes 8-11 questions on over 4 pages for each part)!

• Problem Solving Support: The first version (pages 6-34), includes story problem solving graphic organizers for each problem to help scaffold your students towards solving the single and multi-step story problems. This version is great for your students that need to practice fluency and need support making story problems more accessible.
• Independent Problem Solving: The second version (pages 35-63), does not include the graphic organizers so students need to interpret the problems themselves. This provides a more challenging opportunity for students to determine the steps to solve each problem. This is great for your students who are fluent in their facts but need to work on interpreting story problems independently.

 

DIGITAL FILES NOW INCLUDED! GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION INCLUDED! *ZIP file includes PDF project file with answer key. Power Point files included for both versions of the product with easy-to-use "type answer here" boxes! Students can complete the project digitally, save as a PDF and send to their teacher! Great for distance learning! You can also upload the Power Point to Google Slides to have students submit their work on Google. There are links included to Google Slides versions of the project!