All About Math Level 3 Deep Dive
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I received Level 3 of All About Math for free in exchange for an honest review. (However, I purchased AAM level 1 and all of their reading programs with my own money).
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I have used all 5 levels of All About Reading from this company (and reviewed it extensively) but since All About Math (AAM) is brand new, I don’t have experience teaching it. Nevertheless, here are my thoughts on the program as a former teacher and fifth-year homeschool mom.
All About Learning Press creates reading, spelling, and math curriculum for elementary grades, with a focus on short, hands-on, game-based lessons. Their learning programs are based on the Orton-Gillingham philosophy, which has been used effectively for years to help students with dyslexia.
Jump to Topic:
Is This Level Right For My Child?
What Does Level 3 Cover?
How Is the Curriculum Set Up?
My Takeaways
Is This Level Right For My Child?
This level is intended for 3rd grade. However, in true All About Learning Press style, they don’t put “grade levels” on the books but just number them. Yes, you could read it as 3rd grade, but it is just level 3.
AAM also does not divide the lessons up into chapters or days. They just start with lesson 1 and move to the end. There are 41 lessons, but many of the lessons are intended to take more than 1 day - sometimes even a week or more.
One thing I appreciate about this approach, which is true of their reading program as well, is that you can move as quickly or as slowly as you need to through any lesson or topic. This means you are not stuck to assigned “weeks.” In this way you can fly through several lessons in a few days if your kid really jives with the concept and you can stretch other lessons out over a few weeks if they are struggling.
On the other hand, this could be frustrating to parents who prefer a more structured approach. They assume you will just start and continue until your child completes the level.
Level 3 Placement Test
Here is a direct link to the Level 3 Placement Test.
You can use the teacher’s instructions (in yellow) to work through the assessment with your child. Your child uses the student pages to write their answers to the problems/questions as you read the instructions to them. Answers are included in the teacher’s section.
Links to Other Levels’ Placement Tests:
Level 1 Placement Test (1 page, parents just reads and checks off as they consider their child’s readiness)
Level 2 Placement Test (includes teacher’s questions and student pages for them to fill in)
Level 4 Placement Test (placement test is available but level 4 is not yet ready as of Fall 2025)
What Does Level 3 Cover?
Consolidated List
I searched the Table of Contents, Scope and Sequence, as well as the website for lists of concepts covered in level 3. Then I created a consolidated list, weeding out the duplicate information. Thanks to Grok (AI) I was able to compare the lists and turn them into a categorized single resource.
Individual Sources
Following is a linked list of the sources I use to create the consolidated list, which you’ll find in the next section.
List of Objectives
Below I’ve provided a consolidated list all of “Topics Covered in AAM-3.” You can copy and paste it into a document or into an AI/GPT to help you compare it to other curriculum.
Or, you can download a checklist version PDF from my Free Printables Page.
Topics Covered in AAM-3
Fractions
• Learn to identify fractions from wholes that have already been partitioned into equal parts
• Learn to draw and partition shapes into equal parts
• Learn to identify shaded fraction models for a given fraction
• Learn to create a model to represent a fraction
• Learn to represent fractional situations by using diagrams
• Learn to read and write fractions that represent parts of a whole
• Learn to identify and name fractions on a number line
• Learn to recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers and to write whole numbers as fractions
• Learn to identify equivalent fractions
• Learn to compare two fractions that have the same denominator
• Learn to compare two fractions that have the same numerator
• Learn to compare two fractions with the same numerator or denominator in story problems and explain the conclusions
Multiplication & Division
• Identify and draw equal groups to learn about the concept of multiplication
• Learn to use multiplication expressions to represent equal groups
• Learn about the relationship between repeated addition and multiplication, and write expressions to represent each
• Learn to represent multiplication situations with arrays
• Learn to connect multiplication arrays to equations
• Learn to represent and solve multiplication story problems by writing equations with unknown factors or products, and by creating arrays
• Be introduced to the commutative property of multiplication
• Represent a multiplication situation two ways
• Learn to relate division to multiplication and to recognize division as an unknown-factor problem
• Learn to use the relationship between multiplication and division to write equations
• Learn to identify multiplication and division equations that represent arrays
• Learn to represent and solve story problems that involve equal groups by using multiplication and division equations
• Learn to identify single-digit multiplication facts and the related division facts
• Understand the relationship between multiplication and division
• Solve for unknown values in multiplication and division problems
• Relate multiplication and division with if and then
• Learn to identify and explain patterns in the multiplication table
• Learn to multiply a one-digit number by a two-digit number, resulting in a product within 100
• Learn to use strategies to divide within 100
Story Problems & Operations
• Solve one-step and two-step story problems involving measurement and money
• Learn to analyze two-step problems to identify necessary and unnecessary information
• Learn to represent and solve two-step story problems using the four operations
• Solve two-step story problems containing unnecessary information using all four operations
• Learn to decide when rounding is appropriate and then round multi-digit whole numbers within 1,000,000 to solve problems
Numbers in Base Ten
• Review adding and subtracting within 100; six-digit numbers
• Learn to read and write nine-digit whole numbers in standard form and identify the place and value of each digit
• Read and write numerals with up to nine digits
• Learn to compare 2 multi-digit whole numbers within 1,000,000 using place value reasoning
• Compare and order numbers within 1,000,000
• Learn to round multi-digit whole numbers within 1,000,000 to the nearest multiple of thousand, ten thousand, and one hundred thousand
Geometry
• Identify more challenging two-dimensional shapes, such as quadrilateral and polygon
• Name shape attributes, such as angle, vertex, and parallel
• Learn three-dimensional shapes
Does AAM-3 = 3rd Grade Math?
Short Answer is Yes.
Long answer…Here’s what I have done to determine whether it meets the needs of a third grader.
In the US, public schools across many states use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to make sure their curriculum is aligned so that children moving from one state to another are able to have consistency (or that is the goal). So, if a parent is wanting to compare their child’s curriculum with what is taught in the public schools you can compare it like this…
How to Check for Yourself
Take the list provided above and copy it into the GPT of your choice (like ChatGPT, Grok, etc.). Then ask the GPT to compare the list to your state’s standards for third grade math. Tell it to create a comparison chart and then to tell you any discrepancies between the two. Voila!
How Is the Curriculum Set Up?
Let’s say you couldn’t care less about CCSS (they really aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, but I just want to do my due diligence when letting y’all know how you might want to assess curriculum). Anyway, I have done a full run-down of AAM Levels 1 and 2 separately with all of the details about how this curriculum is laid out. So, I will just point you to those for the exact “structure” of All About Math Level 3, since that hasn’t changed.
My Takeaways
Here are a few key takeaways. Remember, you can read more in the other two reviews:
AAM uses a scripted teacher’s guide so the parent knows exactly what to say (if you want that!)
The quality of the print, color, and paper is excellent.
The books are paperback, so I prefer to spiral bind and add clear plastic covers over my teacher’s guides. (Here’s how I do it with All About Reading).
Lessons are not intended to be done in one sitting. Like AAR, they recommend setting a timer and stopping after about 20 minutes.
The levels are roughly grade-based, but like every curriculum there are slight differences in when some skills are taught simply because each curriculum has it’s own unique focus and style.
This curriculum is very GAME based. Only use if your kid likes hands-on!!! I would say, what kid doesn’t like games? BUT - I have heard of them (just not in my house).
It has minimal worksheets.
You ARE ALLOWED TO COPY for the kids in your house. So, if you don’t want to prep the games for each kid, you could either make extra copies of the pages that need to be written on or put them in plastic sleeves and write the answers in dry-erase marker.
I have not read every page of this curriculum, but from what I have seen, it does not appear to “require” memorization of all the math facts. If you are looking for that but really want the game-based style of this one, you may want to incorporate another supplemental program like Multiplication Facts That Stick.
This program is not the cheapest one out there, but you can reuse it from one child to the next (as long as you copy the pages that are “consumable”).
