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Beginning of Year Third Grade Math Review

Review foundational math with matching centers. Activities revisit time, fact families, missing addends, doubles, place value, and mental calculation.
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Cover listing 6 math review centers: analog clock time, fact families, missing addends, doubles, place value, mental math
Overview of the six centers before you prep
Time matching to the hour: students pair bacon cards showing 3:00, 10:00, 9:00, 12:00 and 7:00 with egg clock faces
Center header card plus o'clock puzzle pairs to cut apart
Time matching to the half hour: bacon cards 6:30, 12:30, 10:30, 7:30, 2:30 and 4:30 pair with matching egg clocks
Half-hour set to add once o'clock matches are solid
Quarter-hour time matching: bacon cards 6:45, 12:15, 10:45, 6:15, 2:15 and 4:45 pair with analog egg clock faces
Harder quarter-past and quarter-to challenge cards
Fact families: chocolate bars show 7, 5, 12; 6, 3, 9; 8, 5, 3 and students match four marshmallow equations to each
Header card and first sets for the fact family center
Fact family matching: marshmallow equations sort onto chocolate bars for 6-7-13, 8-12-20, 1-6-7 and 4-22-26
More sets, including two-digit families like 4, 22, 26
Fact family cards: chocolate bars show 12, 16, 4; 9, 9, 0; 11, 5, 6; 29, 32, 3 with four marshmallow equations each
Includes a zero family; check cards before cutting
Missing addends: students match coffee-cup problems like 3+__=29 and 5+__=27 to donut cards showing 26, 22, 16 and 20
Header card and first cup-and-donut puzzle pairs
Missing addend puzzles with sums of 13 to 15, such as 9+__=15 and 7+__=15, matched to donut answers 8, 6, 7, 10 and 5
Single-digit set for students needing a gentler start
Missing addend cards 7+__=16, 9+__=20, 8+__=12, 3+__=3 and 9+__=26 pair with donuts showing 9, 11, 4, 0 and 17
Mixed set with a zero addend to spark discussion
Grades
Grades 2–3, Elementary
Pages
18
File type
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Preparation
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Math
Topic
Grade 3 Math Review, Math Centers
Resource types
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From the author

This resource is a Beginning of Year Third Grade Math Review.

This activity packet reviews many different math skills that would be ideal for back to school 3rd graders OR end of the year 2nd graders.

Skills covered:

  • - Telling time on an analog clock

  • - Addition/subtraction Fact Families

  • - Missing Addends

  • - Addition Doubles

  • - Place Value

  • - Mental Math Addition and Subtraction

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Match analog clocks with written times.

  • Connect related addition and subtraction facts and find missing addends.

  • Apply doubles facts and place-value knowledge in matching activities.

Teaching tips

  • Set up each topic as a separate center rather than treating each page as a complete station.

  • Start with one familiar center to model how students should make and explain a match.

  • Use mismatches to identify a skill for a short follow-up lesson.

Skills covered

  • Time reading: connect clock-hand positions with written times.

  • Number relationships: use known facts to complete related equations.

  • Place value: identify the value or place of a digit.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Analog clock reading

  • Addition and subtraction relationships

  • Place value

  • Mental arithmetic

Topics

Grade 3 Math Review Math Centers Beginning of Year

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