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Maths – Year 3

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TopicDescription
Counting and OrderingCount up and down in tenths.
Compare and order numbers up to 1000.
Numbers and more/lessRead and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words.
Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number.
Place value and decimalsRecognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number.
Table and MultiplesCount from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.
Bonds, Facts and Special numbers
Calculations + and –Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones, tends and hundreds.
Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods
Solve problems, including missing number problems.
Calculations x and ÷Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know.
Multiply two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods.
Solve problems, including missing number problems.
Fractions and percentagesRecognise, find, name and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators.
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole (e.g. 5/7 + 1/7 = 6/7).
Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators.
TimeTell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks.
Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute;
Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year.
MeasurementMeasure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml).
Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes.
Add and subtract amounts of money to give change using both £ and p in practical contexts.
Properties of shapeDraw 2D shapes and make 3D shapes using modelling materials.
Recognise 3D shapes in different orientations and describe them.
Recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn.
Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.
Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
Position and Direction
StatisticsInterpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
Solve one-step and two-step questions (e.g. ‘How many more?’ /‘How many fewer?’) using information presented.