Year 3 maths: what your child learns

Number and place value

• Counting in steps of 2, 3 and 5
• Putting the numbers one to 100 in the correct order
• Using < and > symbols
• Recognising the place value of each digit in a two-digit number

Calculating

• Adding and subtracting one- and two-digit numbers
• Knowing addition and subtraction facts up to 20
• Learning the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, plus division facts
• Identifying odd and even numbers

Fractions

• Finding 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4 of a shape or quantity

Measurement

• Using appropriate units to measure length, weight and capacity
• Combining amounts of money to make a particular value
• Working out how much change to give
• Tell the time to five minutes, including quarter to / past the hour

Geometry

• Identifying, describing and sorting common 2D and 3D shapes
• Understanding that a quarter turn is a right angle
• Confident with clockwise and anti-clockwise

Statistics

• Interpreting and constructing simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables
• Answer questions about the data presented