We have more requests for word problems/real life problems than any other area of maths and in response we have published a great collection of pages, including a separate Reasoning category . In Year 3 we have subdivided the topics into:

• Money problems and challenges
• Number and calculating problems
• Real life and word problems
• More challenges and activities

We would like to highlight our sets of money challenges for Year 3, which ask children to work out the costs of buying tickets, clothes etc. taking advantage of various offers; an important part of the world we now live in. We have also written some tricky word problems which involve working out two calculations to reach the answer – always something that children find hard.