3rd grade

Multiplication and division are two of the most important operations to understand in math. If you drink 2 cups of water, 5 times, how much water have you drunk? If you need to divide 9 slices of cake between 3 friends, how much cake does each friend get?

This will be your first introduction to the idea of fractions. You'll learn what they are and what they can represent. Then in 4th and 5th grades, you'll learn to compute with them.

In 2nd grade, you learned to measure lengths. Now we can measure the length around the edge of an object (perimeter) and how much "space" something takes up on a flat surface (area).