Year 3 Maths Programme: week 31

We start this week's programme with a couple of pages on subtracting by adjusting. This means carrying out an easier subtraction and then adjusting to make up the difference (e.g. subtract 19 by taking 20 and then adding 1). Strategies such of this are vital if children are going to...

Further work on graphs

This week we have published another set of worksheets on Handling Data, suitable for Year 3. Children should be able to interpret bar charts where the vertical axis goes up in twos and answer questions such as: ‘Which car was the most popular?’ They should also be thinking about what...

Weekly Programme: Week 30

This week is very much about Handling Data, but there are also some arithmetic pages. perhaps the hardest is the very first page. The task here is to find all the different totals that can be made by adding any three of the 2-digit numbers shown - very tricky if...

The Dam Busters

The Dam Busters The night of May 16th marks exactly 70 years since one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War; the bombing of three German dams, by the ‘Dam Busters’. Barnes Wallis, an eccentric scientist and inventor, who had designed the Wellington Bomber, (one of the...

Counting in fours, eights and fifties

The new Maths Programme of Study for Maths for year 3 states that children should be taught to count in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.  We have many counting worksheets, but not specifically on counting in fours, eights and fifties; so we thought that now was the time...

Year 3 Programme: Week 29

We are well into the Summer Term now and this week's programme reflects the progress that children will have made this year. It starts with a brief look at multiples of 50 and also includes adding multiples of 100. Fractions will often cause children problems and we have two sets...