Listed below are all of the National Curriculum objectives for Year 3 maths.
Find the objective you are teaching and click on the link to see some playful activities that will help you and your children meet that objective.
Number and Place Value: click here for a range of activities for each objective
Number – Addition and Subtraction:
Objective | Number of Games |
add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and 1s a three-digit number and 10s a three-digit number and 100s | 1 |
add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction | 1 |
estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers | 1 |
solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction. |
Number – Multiplication and Division:
Objective | Number of Games |
recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables | 18 |
write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods | |
solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects. |
Number – Fractions:
Objective | Number of Games |
count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10 | 1 |
recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators | |
recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators | |
recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators | 1 |
add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole | 1 |
compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators | |
solve problems that involve all of the above. |
Measurement:
Objective | Number of Games |
measure, 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 | |
tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks | 1 |
estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight | 1 |
know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year | |
compare durations of events [for example to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks] |
Geometry – Properties of Shapes:
Objectives | Number of Games |
draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D 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 | 1 |
identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines |
Statistics:
Objectives | Number of Games |
interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables | |
solve one-step and two-step questions [for example, ‘How many more?’ and ‘How many fewer?’] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables |