🔢 Grade 3 Math

Units

1. Unit 1

   🧱Numbers to 1000

   Reading, building, comparing and ordering numbers to 1000 as hundreds, tens and ones, including tricky zeros and regrouping (12 tens is 1 hundred and 2 tens).

   Learning outcome: 3.N.1, 3.N.2, 3.N.3, 3.N.5 · counting, representing, comparing and ordering numbers to 1000, and place value

2. Unit 2

   🎯Round & Count

   Rounding numbers to the nearest ten or hundred, counting forward and back by 50s, 100s and 200s, and comparing and ordering numbers up to 1000.

   Learning outcome: 3.N.4, 3.N.8 · estimating quantities and sums and differences

3. Unit 3

   ⚡Facts to 20

   Building fast, flexible recall of addition and subtraction facts to 20 with strategies like making ten, near doubles, fact families and thinking addition to subtract.

   Learning outcome: 3.N.10 · mental math strategies for addition facts and related subtraction facts

4. Unit 4

   ➕Add & Subtract

   Adding and subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers by place value, number-line jumps and counting up, plus estimating by rounding to the nearest hundred.

   Learning outcome: 3.N.6, 3.N.7, 3.N.9 · adding and subtracting 2-digit and 3-digit numbers

5. Unit 5

   ✖️Multiplication

   Understanding multiplication as equal groups, arrays, repeated addition and skip counting. Easier sets use 2s, 5s and 10s; stretch sets go beyond 5 × 5.

   Learning outcome: 3.N.11 · multiplication as repeated addition, arrays and equal groups

6. Unit 6

   ➗Division

   Understanding division as sharing fairly and as making equal groups, and using multiplication facts to divide (3 × 4 = 12, so 12 ÷ 3 = 4).

   Learning outcome: 3.N.12 · division as sharing and grouping

7. Unit 7

   🍕Fractions

   Naming fractions of a shape, a set and a number line, knowing what the top and bottom numbers mean, and comparing fractions by the size of their parts.

   Learning outcome: 3.N.13 · fractions as parts of a whole or a set

8. Unit 8

   📈Patterns & Equations

   Extending increasing and decreasing patterns, describing pattern rules in words and tables, and solving one-step equations like ☐ + 8 = 23.

   Learning outcome: 3.PR.1, 3.PR.2, 3.PR.3 · increasing and decreasing patterns, and one-step equations with a symbol

9. Unit 9

   ⏰Time

   Telling time on an analog clock, working out start and end times, and knowing how seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years relate.

   Learning outcome: 3.SS.1, 3.SS.2 · the passage of time, and seconds, minutes, hours, days and months

10. Unit 10

    📏Measuring

    Measuring with centimetres and metres, grams and kilograms, millilitres and litres: choosing sensible units, estimating, comparing and solving measurement problems.

    Learning outcome: 3.SS.3, 3.SS.4 · measuring length in cm and m, and mass in g and kg

11. Unit 11

    📐Area & Perimeter

    Finding the perimeter (distance around) of rectangles and triangles, finding a missing side, and measuring area in square centimetres and square metres.

    Learning outcome: 3.SS.5 · perimeter of regular and irregular shapes

12. Unit 12

    🧊3D Objects

    Naming 3D objects, counting their faces, edges and vertices, and thinking about how they are built from flat faces or from straws and clay.

    Learning outcome: 3.SS.6 · describing 3-D objects by their faces and edges

13. Unit 13

    🔷Sorting Polygons

    Practises naming polygons by their number of sides and sorting them as regular (all sides and angles equal) or irregular.

    Learning outcome: 3.SS.7 · sorting regular and irregular polygons by the number of sides

14. Unit 14

    📊Graphs & Chance

    Reading pictographs and bar graphs where one symbol can stand for one vote or several, and describing how likely outcomes are with spinners, marbles and number cubes.

    Learning outcome: 3.SP.1, 3.SP.2 · collecting data and reading bar graphs