Year 3 - National Curriculum Coverage

Chapter 1 – Numbers to 1,000

• Count from 0 in multiples of 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number.
• Read and write numbers up to 1,000 in numerals and in words.
• To compose and decompose numbers consisting of hundreds, tens and ones.
• Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones).
• Compare and order numbers up to 1,000.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 50.
• Find 10/100 more or less than a given number.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4 and 8.

Chapter 2 – Addition and Subtraction

• Add and subtract numbers mentally.
• To add a 3-digit number to a 1-digit number with no regrouping or renaming.
• Add and subtract numbers mentally, including a 3-digit number and tens.
• Add and subtract numbers mentally, including a 3-digit number and hundreds.
• Add numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition.
• To add a 3-digit number to a 1-digit number, with renaming.
• Add numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition.
• Estimate the answer to a calculation.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value and more complex addition and subtraction.
• Subtract numbers mentally.
• Subtract numbers mentally, including: a 3-digit number and ones.
• Subtract numbers mentally, including a 3-digit number and tens.
• Subtract numbers mentally, including: a 3-digit number and hundreds.
• Subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar subtraction
• Solve problems using number facts, place value and more complex subtraction.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value and more complex addition and subtraction.

Chapter 3 – Multiplication and Division

• Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.
• Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication using the multiplication tables that they know, including for 2-digit numbers times 1-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division.
• Write and calculate mathematical statements for division using the multiplication tables they know, including for 2-digit numbers times 1-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods.

Chapter 4 – Further Multiplication and Division

• Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication using the multiplication tables that they know, including for 2-digit numbers times 1-digit numbers.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication.
• Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication using the multiplication tables that they know, including for 2-digit numbers times 1-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving division.
• Write and calculate mathematical statements for division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for 2-digit numbers times 1-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division.

Chapter 5 – Length

• Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers.
• Compare and order lengths.

Chapter 6 – Mass

• Measure, compare, add and subtract mass (kg/g).
• To use weighing scales to measure mass when the mass is between multiples of 100 g.
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division.

Chapter 7 – Volume

• Measure, compare, add and subtract volume (l/ml).
• Measure, compare, add and subtract capacity (l/ml).
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division.

Chapter 8 – Money

• Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts.

Chapter 9 – Time

• 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.
• Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks.
• Record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours.
• Compare durations of events [for example to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks].
• Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year.

Chapter 10 – Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs

• 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.

Chapter 11 – Fractions

• Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing 1-digit numbers or quantities by 10.
• Recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators. Recognise, find 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 1 whole (for example, 5/7 + 1/7 = 6/7).
• Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators.
• Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators.
• Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators.
• Solve problems that involve fractions.

Chapter12 – Angles

• Recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn.
• Identify right angles.
• Identify right angles; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.
• Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn.

Chapter 13 – Lines and Shapes

• Identify pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
• Identify horizontal and vertical lines.
• Draw 2-D shapes.
• Make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them.
• Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
• Recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them.

Chapter 14 – Perimeter of Figures

• Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes.