Year 3 Maths Curriculum
Year 3 maths curriculum
Place value to 1,000, column addition and subtraction, the 3, 4 and 8 times tables, tenths, right angles, and reading bar charts and pictograms.
10 lessons, 58 units, 802 questions. £160 once for all 64 lessons, lifetime access. Or £5.99 a lesson.
Year 3 is where the written methods start. Numbers to 1,000, then columns.
What Year 3 covers
- Place value in three digit numbers, and comparing and ordering numbers to 1,000
- Column addition and subtraction with up to three digits
- The 3, 4 and 8 times tables, and the division facts that go with them
- Counting in tenths, and adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator
- Right angles and turns, and naming 2D and 3D shapes
- Reading bar charts, pictograms and tables, and answering questions from them
The Key Stage 2 tests are sat in the May of Year 6, so a Year 3 child has 3 more school years before the papers. Everything here is groundwork the later years lean on.
The 10 lessons that cover it
Grouped by topic block. 58 units and 802 practice questions between them. Numbers are positions in the course teaching order, so they jump within a year. Every lesson is a link to its listing.
Try one Year 3 question
Pitched at the level lesson 8 reaches, not where it starts. If your child gets it, that lesson can be skipped.
Work out 6,004 − 2,847 in columns.
Show the answer
3,157. It needs an exchange across the zeros.
Every lesson in the course has a check question like this in the learning order tool, so you can test before you buy.
What a lesson looks like
Two units as your child sees them. The method on the left, revealed a line at a time. The questions on the right, answered on paper and checked on screen.
Check where they are first
Three free ways to find out whether Year 3 is the right place to start.
Sixteen topics, adaptive. It tells you which lessons your child is ready for and which they are not.
Find their level →Free, no emailPractice questionsFresh questions every reload, three difficulty levels. The quickest way to see where the gaps are.
Open the questions →Free downloadTopic checklist and trackerOne hundred and twelve skills to tick off, plus a tracker listing every lesson in teaching order.
Download it →Where this year sits
Four years, Year 3 up to the papers in Year 6.
Questions about Year 3
Is Year 3 the right start for a child aged 7 or 8?
Usually. Age is the starting guess and the free questions are the check. If your child finds the first two lessons easy, move up a year. If they struggle with the first one, drop back and rebuild the Key Stage 1 number facts first.
How long does Year 3 take?
10 lessons at two a week is about 5 weeks, and most families spread it over a term or more, because each lesson holds more questions than one sitting needs. Stop a lesson once it has landed and pick up the next.
What comes after Year 3?
Year 4: Place value to 10,000, rounding, all tables to 12 x 12, short multiplication, decimals to two places, negative numbers, perimeter and first quadrant coordinates.
Can I buy just this year?
Yes. Every lesson above is £5.99 on its own, so Year 3 is 10 lessons. Or buy the whole course once for £160 and get every year.
See inside the course
Fifteen seconds recorded from the real lessons, so you can see what your child works through before you buy.
Buy the whole KS2 course once for £160 and you get every year, in teaching order, on one page. Or buy this year's lessons one at a time above at £5.99 each.
There is a guide written for you: how a lesson runs at the kitchen table, the words you say, and how this compares with White Rose and Maths - No Problem!
Every lesson sits in the school year the National Curriculum first teaches it, and lessons are revisited and extended after that. Lesson numbers are positions in the teaching order, so a year's lessons are not one unbroken run. This is a maths teacher's own scheme of work mapped onto the school years, not an accredited course.