Book excerpt: Strengthen your child's math skills with Making the Grade Math for Grade 3. Created especially to follow state learning standards, this workbook provides practice for these essential skills: multiplication and division, fractions, and finding area and perimeter. Using an easy-to-follow approach, this math workbook for third grade will help your child create the strong foundation in math he or she needs to learn, practice, and apply basic skills. Making the Grade Math books will engage your child with appealing, colorful activities while providing high-quality practice to support basic skills. With the Making the Grade series, you can be confident that you’ll choose the perfect workbook to reinforce the skills your child is learning in class. Each workbook in the Making the Grade series includes 48 pages that are full of standards-based activities featuring simple instructions and an answer key. The series offers grade-specific titles for these main school subject areas: Reading (PK–Grade 5), Math (PK–Grade 5), Basic Skills (PK–Grade 2), and Handwriting (K–Grade 5)