App Description

Welcome to AppTutor Grade 3 Addition. Not just another quiz or worksheet app, this 3rd Grade learning tool TEACHES the Common Core State Standards skills required for your child to excel in 3rd Grade Addition! Three distinct teaching modes encourage comprehensive conceptual understanding of required Common Core Grade 3 Addition skills in a fun and easy to understand style.

✔ Full app is included - No in-app upgrades
✔ No advertising
✔ One purchase will load on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

✔ Grade 3 Addition Overview – This app teaches arithmetic patterns and explains addition using properties of operations. G3A enhances students’ ability to fluently add within 1000 using strategies and algorithms when solving equations, and explores two-step word problems. Covers all Common Core Skills required for 3rd grade Addition.

★ Great for use in classroom or tutoring environments ★

App includes:

✔ Five skill-based animated Learn Lesson videos which utilize both visual and auditory learning styles to reinforce comprehension. Specific Grade 3 Addition Common Core skills are introduced in each of these lessons:

• Properties & Strategies
• Estimating Sums
• Long Addition
• Unknown Numbers
• Word Problems

✔ Five fun, interactive Try Modules to practice & reinforce Common Core skills presented in the Learn Lessons utilizing a kinesthetic learning style:

• Function Factory utilizing random Input + Rule = Output equations
• Long Addition random equation training module
• Word Problem interactive step-by-step training module
• Over 100 Flash Cards with answers
• AppTutor Quick Challenge timed recollection tool

✔ 3rd Grade Addition Test Section verifies conceptual understanding of every Common Core skill addressed.

★★★★★ Additional Grade 3 Addition Features ★★★★★

✔ Full functionality in iPad, iPhone and iPod devices
✔ Supports three named students plus a guest user
✔ Tracking includes independent progress status for each user
✔ Design fully supports the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI).
✔ One-click detailed audio instruction available throughout
✔ Always available Scratch Pad encourages counting and creative reasoning
✔ Hint Sheet for handy reference, emailing and printing
✔ 26 pages of targeted-skills Worksheets covering over 500 unique questions for extra practice with answer key
✔ Comprehensive skill-based testing to verify conceptual understanding of all Common Core skills addressed
✔ Intra-test wrong answer feedback to enhance recollection of key concepts
✔ Random test question generation ensures equal testing and grading for all Common Core skills addressed
✔ Printable Certificate of Achievement upon completion in both AirPrint and email format
✔ Over 1,400 unique problems throughout the app

Grade 3 Addition Common Core State Standards addressed include:

3.OA.8 Solve two-step word problems. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

3.OA.9 Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table) and explain them using properties of operations.

3.NBT.2 Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • September 18, 2012 Initial release
  • October 07, 2012 Price decrease: $3.99 -> FREE!
  • October 08, 2012 Price increase: FREE! -> $3.99
  • January 14, 2013 Price increase: $3.99 -> $4.99
  • January 24, 2013 Price increase: $4.99 -> $6.99
  • January 29, 2013 Price decrease: $6.99 -> $4.99