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For futue math beasts! Beast Academy is the new elementary-school math curriculum from Art of Problem Solving. It is built to challenge and excite students and to allow all to experience the joy and beauty of math.  Students learn more than just arithmetic; they will be introduced to the richness of math and given opportunities to hone problem solving skills that will help them excel in STEM-related fields. 

When complete, Beast Academy will provide a full, rigorous, and entertaining curriculum for aspiring math beasts in grades 2-5. The series consists of four two-book sets for each grade. The Guide book of each set presents the lessons and the Practice book provides exercises and problems to reinforce the lessons.

This set contains the four part series for Grade 3. The Guides deliver complete lessons to the students of Beast Academy in an engaging comic-book style. The companion books, Practices, provides over 400 problems ranging from introductory level exercises to very challenging puzzles and word problems to reinforce the lessons in the Guides.

Beast Academy 3A covers the following topics:
Shapes: Angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, other polygons, puzzles with polyominoes.
Skip-Counting: Patterns with repeated addition, arithmetic sequences, foundations for understanding multiplication, distribution, and factoring.
Perimeter and Area: Perimeter and area of rectangles, polygons, and rectilinear shapes.

Beast Academy 3B covers the following topics:
Multiplication: The times table, the commutative and associative properties, multiplying numbers that end in one or more zeroes.
Perfect Squares: Squaring a number that ends in 5, finding the next perfect square, multiplying nearby numbers using perfect squares.
The Distributive Property: Order of operations, area models of the distributive property, multiplying multi-digit numbers.

Beast Academy 3C covers the following topics:
Variables: Writing expressions and equations, evaluating expressions, solving equations.
Division: Equal sharing, relating multiplication and division, finding a quotient and remainder.
Measurement: Length, weight, volume, temperature, money, and time. Metric and customary units.

Beast Academy 3D covers the following topics:
Fractions: Unit fractions, fractions on the number line, mixed numbers, equivalent fractions, parts of a whole, comparing and ordering fractions, simplifying fractions.
Estimation: Rounding, computing estimates, over and underestimating, eyeball estimates, Fermi problems.
Area: Square units, adding and subtracting areas, tangrams, triangle area, unit conversions.

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