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n. (context US education English) The period in school that comes after second grade and before fourth grade.
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Third grade is the term used for the third year of primary education in the US. It is the third school year of primary school. Students are usually 8–9 years old, depending on when their birthday occurs. Similar terms, for example Grade 3, are used in other countries (see below). In Some school districts, it is the final year of Elementary School.
- In mathematics, students are usually introduced to multiplication and division facts, place value to thousands or ten thousands, and estimation. Depending on the school, students may even begin to work on long division. Decimals (to tenths only) are sometimes introduced. Students begin to work on problem-solving skills working to explain their thinking in mathematical terms.
- In science, third graders are taught basic physical sciences and chemistry. Weather and climate are also taught. The concept of atoms and molecules are common, the states of matter, and energy, along with basic elements such as oxygen, hydrogen, gold, zinc, and iron. Nutrition is also taught in third grade along with chemistry.
- Social studies begin a study of the culture of the United States and basic idea of the early part of the United States from the time of Native Americans to the Civil War. Outward expansion and the gold rush is covered.
- In reading, third grade students begin working more on text comprehension than decoding strategies. Students also begin reading harder chapter books. They read and distinguish between a variety of genres: realistic fiction, non-fiction, poetry, fantasy, historical fiction, science fiction and folktales.
Grade 3 students learn how to work on projects on their own and with others. This may start as early as second and first grade as well. Social skills, empathy and leadership are considered by some educators to be as important to develop as the academic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Usage examples of "third grade".
It's like saying that the fourth grade lies between the third grade and the fifth grade and connects them, which it does.
He doesn't say they do it to him but perhaps he would if he were still in third grade.
I learned that color from my deluxe Crayola crayon box when I was in third grade.
And while all of his teachers had found him odd (both Mrs Douglas, his fifth-grade teacher, and Mrs Weems, who had had Patrick in the third grade, knew about the pencil-box full of flies, and while neither of them totally ignored the implications, each had between twenty and twenty-eight other students, each with problems of his or her own), none of them had serious disciplinary problems with him.
He doesn't say they do it to him but perhaps he wouldif he were still in third grade.