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Year 3 Maths Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
2, 4 and 8 times tables: using times tables to solve problems
- Explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of eight Study Guide
- Explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of four Study Guide
- Explain the relationship between multiples of 2 and multiples of 4 Study Guide
- Explain the relationship between multiples of 4 and multiples of 8 Study Guide
- Explain the relationship between the multiples of 2, 4 and 8 Study Guide
- Represent counting in eights as the 8 times table Study Guide
- Represent counting in fours as the 4 times table Study Guide
- Scale divisions derived from multiplication facts by 10 Study Guide
- Scale known multiplication facts by 10 Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the 4 times table to solve problems Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the divisibility rules for divisors 8 to solve problems Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the divisibility rules for divisors of 2 and 4 to solve problems Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the relationship between the 2 and 4 times tables to solve problems Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the relationship between the 2, 4 and 8 times tables to solve problems Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the relationship between the 4 and 8 times tables to solve problems Study Guide
Bridging 100: counting on and back in 10s, adding/subtracting multiples of 10
- Bridge 100 by adding or subtracting a single-digit number Study Guide
- Count across and on from 100 Study Guide
- Cross the hundreds boundary when adding and subtracting any 2-digit multiple of 10 Study Guide
- Find 10 more or 10 less than a given number Study Guide
- Represent a 3-digit number up to 199 in different ways Study Guide
Calculate the value of a part (fractions as operators)
- Calculate the value of parts and wholes using understanding of division Study Guide
- Connect division with finding a fraction of a quantity to find parts and wholes Study Guide
- Constructing a whole Study Guide
- Use knowledge of the relationship between parts and wholes to solve problems Study Guide
- Use parts and wholes to find a unit fraction of a set of objects Study Guide
Column addition
- Add 2-digit numbers using column addition Study Guide
- Add 3-digit numbers using column addition Study Guide
- Identify the addends and the sum in column addition Study Guide
- Use column addition to add numbers by regrouping ones Study Guide
- Use column addition to add numbers by regrouping tens Study Guide
- Use column addition to solve problems Study Guide
- Use column addition with regrouping in ones and tens Study Guide
- Use column addition with regrouping to solve problems Study Guide
- Use known facts and strategies to accurately and efficiently calculate and check column addition Study Guide
- Use place value to correctly lay out column addition Study Guide
Column subtraction
- Identify the minuend and subtrahend in column subtraction Study Guide
- Make efficient use of subtraction strategies including column subtraction Study Guide
- Subtract from a 2-digit number using column subtraction with regrouping Study Guide
- Subtract from a 3-digit number using column subtraction with regrouping Study Guide
- Use column subtraction to subtract from a 2- or 3-digit number Study Guide
Compare and order unit fractions
- Compare and order unit fractions by looking at the denominator Study Guide
- Compare unit fractions by looking at the denominator Study Guide
- Identify when unit fractions cannot be compared Study Guide
- Solve problems involving comparing and ordering unit fractions in a range of contexts Study Guide
- Solve problems involving comparing unit fractions Study Guide
Composition of non-unit fractions: addition and subtraction
- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator in a range of contexts Study Guide
- Add fractions with the same denominator Study Guide
- Add fractions with the same denominator and generalise the rule Study Guide
- Add on fractions with the same denominator Study Guide
- Explain that addition and subtraction of fractions are inverse operations Study Guide
- Substitute a fraction representing a whole to solve subtraction problems Study Guide
- Subtract fractions from a whole by converting the whole to a fraction Study Guide
- Subtract fractions with the same denominator Study Guide
- Use repeated addition of a unit fraction to form 1 Study Guide
- Use repeated addition of a unit fraction to form a non-unit fraction Study Guide
Identify parts and wholes in different contexts
- Identify equal parts in a whole when they do not look the same in 2D shapes Study Guide
- Identify equal parts in a whole when they do not look the same in 3D contexts Study Guide
- Identify parts and wholes in different contexts Study Guide
- Identify parts and wholes in the contexts of lines and 3D objects Study Guide
- Solve problems by identifying parts and wholes in a range of contexts Study Guide
Informal and mental strategies for adding and subtracting two 3-digit numbers
- Add 2 and 3-digit numbers by redistributing Study Guide
- Add two 3-digit numbers using adjusting strategies Study Guide
- Add two 3-digit numbers using partitioning Study Guide
- Choose the most efficient strategy to add two 3-digit numbers Study Guide
- Choose the most efficient strategy to subtract from a 3-digit number Study Guide
- Subtract 2 or 3-digit numbers using partitioning and bridging a multiple of 10 Study Guide
- Subtract 3-digit multiples of 10 by finding the difference between them Study Guide
- Subtract a pair of 2-digit numbers by finding the difference Study Guide
- Use addition and subtraction to solve problems in different contexts Study Guide
- Use addition and subtraction to solve problems involving bar charts, pictograms and tables Study Guide
Measures: mass and capacity
- Become familiar with scales with different intervals when measuring in grams Study Guide
- Comparing and estimating mass and volume Study Guide
- Estimate then measure mass and volume and record in a table Study Guide
- Measure mass in whole kilograms and grams Study Guide
- Measure the mass of objects using grams Study Guide
- Measure volume in whole litres and millilitres Study Guide
- Measuring the volume of liquids using millilitres. Study Guide
- Solve problems involving mass Study Guide
- Solve problems involving volume Study Guide
- Understanding capacity and volume Study Guide
Measuring length and recording in tables
- Converting between centimetres and millimetres Study Guide
- Converting between metres and centimetres Study Guide
- Estimate and measure lengths and heights and record in a table Study Guide
- Estimate in metres and describe a metre in different ways Study Guide
- Measure length and height from zero using whole m or cm Study Guide
- Measuring length and height using cm and mm Study Guide
- Millimetres as a unit of measure and the relationship between them and cm Study Guide
- Solve problems involving length Study Guide
- Solve problems involving length and height Study Guide
- Using graphs to represent lengths and heights Study Guide
Non-unit fractions
- Compare fractions with the same numerator Study Guide
- Compare non-unit fractions including those equal to 1 Study Guide
- Compare non-unit fractions with the same denominator Study Guide
- Explain that non-unit fractions are made of more than one unit fraction Study Guide
- Identify non-unit fractions Study Guide
- Identifying equal parts in a whole in different contexts Study Guide
- Place fractions between 0 and 1 on a number line Study Guide
- Review comparing unit fractions Study Guide
- Use knowledge of non-unit fractions to solve problems Study Guide
- Use knowledge of unit fractions to find one whole Study Guide
Parallel and perpendicular sides in polygons
- Construct quadrilaterals with and without parallel and perpendicular sides Study Guide
- Draw polygons on isometric paper Study Guide
- Draw shapes with given properties Study Guide
- Draw shapes with given properties on a range of geometric grids Study Guide
- Identifying parallel lines Study Guide
- Investigate different ways of decomposing a polygon Study Guide
- Make and draw quadrilaterals on circular geoboards Study Guide
- Make and draw shapes with and without parallel and perpendicular sides Study Guide
- Make and draw triangles on circular geoboards Study Guide
- Make shapes by joining two polygons in different ways Study Guide
Representing 3-digit numbers, comparing and positioning on number lines
- Add and subtract to and from a 3-digit number bridging 100 Study Guide
- Comparing and ordering numbers with 1, 2 and 3 digits Study Guide
- Count forwards and backwards in multiples of 2, 20, 5, 50 and 25 Study Guide
- Count forwards and backwards within 3-digits Study Guide
- Estimate the position of 3-digit numbers on unmarked number lines Study Guide
- Ordering sets of 3-digit numbers Study Guide
- Partition 3-digit numbers in different ways Study Guide
- Position 3-digit numbers on number lines Study Guide
- Represent a 3-digit number up to 1,000 in different ways Study Guide
- Solve problems by adding and subtracting to or from 3-digit numbers Study Guide
- Solve problems by counting forwards and backwards in multiples of 2, 20, 5, 50 and 25 Study Guide
- Use known facts to add and subtract multiples of 100 within 1000 Study Guide
- Use known facts to add and subtract to and from multiples of 100 Study Guide
- Use known facts to solve problems involving partitioning numbers Study Guide
- Write a 3-digit multiple of 10 as a multiplication equation Study Guide
Review strategies for adding and subtracting across 10
- Add 3 numbers together in different contexts Study Guide
- Add 3 numbers together using doubles and near doubles Study Guide
- Add three addends by finding pairs that total 10 Study Guide
- Add three addends efficiently using a range of strategies Study Guide
- Addition by bridging through 10 Study Guide
- Numbers can be added in any order Study Guide
- Solving problems involving addition and subtraction Study Guide
- Subtracting numbers that bridge through 10 Study Guide
- Subtracting small numbers Study Guide
- Subtracting to and from 10 Study Guide
Right angles
- Identify and describe right angles Study Guide
- Identify properties of quadrilaterals Study Guide
- Identify properties of triangles Study Guide
- Investigate and draw other polygons with right angles Study Guide
- Investigate the shapes made when rectangles are cut on the diagonal Study Guide
- Join four right angles at a point using different right-angled polygons Study Guide
- Know that a rectangle is a four-sided polygon with four right angles Study Guide
- Know that a right angle describes a quarter turn Study Guide
- Know that a square is a rectangle in which the four sides are of equal length Study Guide
- Make different sized angles by rotating two lines around a fixed point Study Guide
Securing place value to 100 and applying to addition and subtraction
- Bridge 100 by adding in multiples of 10 Study Guide
- Bridge 100 by subtracting in multiples of 10 Study Guide
- Composition of 100 in 10s and 1s Study Guide
- Composition of 100 in 50s, 25s and 20s Study Guide
- Multiples of 10 that total 100 Study Guide
- Represent 3-digit multiples of 10 in different ways Study Guide
- Solve problems using knowledge of addition and subtraction of multiples of 10 Study Guide
- Use known facts to find complements to 100 efficiently Study Guide
- Use known facts to find pairs of numbers that total 100 Study Guide
- Use place value knowledge to write addition and subtraction equations Study Guide
Tell the time to the nearest minute and compare units of time
- am and pm Study Guide
- Estimate and compare the duration of events and tasks Study Guide
- How many seconds in a minute Study Guide
- Know the number of days in each month, year and leap year Study Guide
- Tell and write the time including using Roman numerals Study Guide
- Tell and write the time to the nearest minute past Study Guide
- Tell and write the time to the nearest minute past and to Study Guide
Understand additive relationships and apply them to rearrange equations
- Develop understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction Study Guide
- Identify knowns and unknowns in addition equations Study Guide
- Identify knowns and unknowns in subtraction equations Study Guide
- Solve multi-step addition and subtraction problems efficiently Study Guide
- Solve one and two-step problems in different contexts Study Guide
- Solve problems using bar charts, pictograms and tables Study Guide
- Understand why the order of addition and subtraction steps can be chosen Study Guide
- Use the additive relationship to rearrange addition equations Study Guide
- Use the additive relationship to rearrange and solve equations Study Guide
- Use the additive relationship to rearrange subtraction equations Study Guide
Unit fractions as part of a whole
- Construct a whole when given a part and the number of parts Study Guide
- Explain the size of a part in relation to the whole Study Guide
- Explain why a part can only be defined in relation to a whole Study Guide
- Identify a whole and the parts that make it up Study Guide
- Identify equal parts when they do not look the same Study Guide
- Identify how many equal parts a whole has been divided into Study Guide
- Identify the number of equal or unequal parts in a whole Study Guide
- Represent unit fractions in different ways Study Guide
- Solve problems involving identifying equal parts and the whole Study Guide
- Use fraction notation to describe an equal part of the whole Study Guide