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To make it easier for schools, teachers and even parents, we’ve collected here all our free Year 3 Maths Worksheets and Year 3 Maths Tests that you can use to support Year 3 maths classroom teaching and homework.

The focus here is on practising and improving pupils’ core skills and revising what you have taught them in class, especially with numbers worksheets. National Curriculum guidance is given where relevant and each year 3 worksheet and year 3 test includes answer sheets.

All the free KS1 and KS2 maths worksheets and resource are in printable pdf format that can also be used directly on screen. If you’re looking for other slides-based teaching resources and lesson plans, we recommend you look at our range of White Rose maths lessons.

If you’re a parent looking for more advice, try our home learning home learning hub full of home learning packs , tips and teaching ideas for Year 3 Maths at Home and maths homework .

If you’re a teacher or school leader who is interested in improving maths attainment in your school or classroom, then this whole website is for you. Third Space Learning is dedicated to improving outcomes in maths with our online tutoring programme of maths interventions , together with maths resources and CPD.

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Year 3 free place value worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on place value: all kinds of word problems.

These Year 3 number and place value worksheets give lots of practice on one-step and two-step word problems to strengthen children’s understanding of place value and ordering numbers.

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Year 3 place value worksheets: maths code crackers.

This place value worksheet provides a fun recap of the place value topic. Children need to solve place value questions (including writing numbers, comparing numbers and ordering numbers) to find the answer to a pirate themed joke.

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Year 3 place value worksheets: Worked Examples Place Value

Children love to be the teacher! These worksheets include five answered questions, but they haven’t always been answered correctly. Children need to check the given answers to place value questions involving number lines, Base 10 and counters and explain the errors they find.

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Year 3 free addition and subtraction worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on addition and subtraction: gap plugging pack.

These lessons are what we use during our online maths interventions. The year 3 addition and subtraction worksheets include lots of addition and subtraction questions for children to follow along with. As they are intended to be used by a tutor teaching and supporting a child through their Year 3 addition and subtraction understanding, parents may need to be prepared to step in occasionally.

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Year 3 free multiplication and division worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on multiplication: all kinds of word problems.

The Y ear 3 multiplication worksheets work on children’s understanding of multiplication facts and multiplication tables in context. Year 3 is a big times tables year so make sure you encourage the learning of times tables at home .

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on division: Short and Long Division Worksheets

Teaching the long division metho d as part of KS2 maths lessons is a challenge for many teachers let alone parents. Year 3 children won’t be ready for long division as it is not taught until upper key stage 2 but these long division worksheets start with short division so a child can progress from from 1-digit number division to division with 2-digit numbers using division facts and multiples. See also this parents guide to division for kids.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on multiplication & division: Code Crackers

We’ve combined what 7 and 8 year old children should know by the Spring term of Year 3 to create these ‘retrieval’ practice tasks. This means they are able to work through a series of questions that revisits what they’ve learnt in class.

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Other year 3 multiplication and division worksheets

Year 3 division word problems worksheets: all kinds of word problems on division year 3.

This workbook includes a range of different types of worded problems to challenge children. The questions range from ‘traditional’ worded problems to missing number problems to make sure children have a good understanding of division.

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Year 3 Division Worksheets: Let’s Practice Using the Bar Model Division Year 3

Division can be very challenging for some children. These worksheets encourage the use of bar models to visualise and solve different division problems. With either scaffolded sheets (showing the relevant bar model) or non-scaffolded sheets, these worksheets provide a range of worded division problems that can be easily solved with the help of a bar model.

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Year 3 Multiplication and Division Worksheets: Worked Examples Multiplication and Division

These worksheets show a range of techniques used when teaching multiplication and division in Year 3. In these worksheets, children are presented with completed questions using formal column multiplication, sharing, partitioning and using a number line to complete calculations, but the answers are not always right. Children will need to work through the questions to find the correct answer and explain the errors.

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Year 3 free fractions worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on fractions: independent recap.

Our newest resource – these time saving maths worksheets are designed to be completed by children with little support from parents or teachers, making them great homework activities for busy afternoons. This pack contains four worksheets that cover ordering, adding and subtracting fractions.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on fractions: All Kinds of Word Problems

Understanding of fractions starts early and builds progressively in key stage 2. This year 3 fractions worksheet provides questions around unit and non-unit fractions including comparing and ordering and adding and subtracting; lots more fractions for kids help is available.

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Other year 3 fractions worksheets

Year 3 fractions worksheet: code crackers .

This fun worksheet focuses on comparing and ordering fractions, finding equivalent fractions as well as adding and subtracting fractions, all to find the answer to a joke.

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Year 3 fractions worksheets: Worked Examples

Fractions are not always easy for all children to understand. By looking at and correcting the work of others, children often find it easier to explain mistakes. This worksheet focuses on enabling children to identify and explain the mistakes in a range of fractions questions, including fractions on a number line and fractions of amounts.

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Year 3 fractions worksheets: Let’s Practise Using the Bar Model Fractions and Decimals

This worksheet encourages the use of bar models to solve fractions questions. While decimals are not taught explicitly in Year 3, this worksheet introduces two questions that involve decimals to start to develop the connection between fractions and decimals.

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Year 3 free measurement worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on money: code crackers.

Money is a surprisingly big part of the Year 3 maths curriculum. The Code Crackers series of maths worksheets is perfect for Year 3 homework as it requires very little intervention from parents. There is no new content introduced.

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Other year 3 measurement worksheets

Year 3 money worksheets: worked examples.

Adding and subtracting money is an important life skill and part of the Year 3 curriculum. This worksheet covers adding and subtracting money in pounds and pence, including the use of estimating and number lines.

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Year 3 time worksheets: Code Crackers

Year 3 children are expected to have a good understanding of time (including telling the time, knowing time language, know key time facts and compare durations of time). While this is a lot to know, this worksheet will help to recap these facts in an engaging way.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Time: Year 3 Worked Examples Time

This worksheet focuses on a small selection of the Year 3 time topic that children often struggle with including telling the time to the nearest minute, understanding 24-hour time and finding the duration of events.

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Third Space Learning online intervention slide for year 3 telling the time

Year 3 geometry worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on properties of shape: independent recap.

These worksheets have been designed so that children can independently recap key learning about key properties of 2D shape and 3D shapes as well as angles and naming different lines. While some of the questions might seem simple, each sheet includes a challenge to encourage reasoning skills.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Properties of Shape: Maths Code Crackers Year 3

While children are taught about shapes from Year 1, they are expected to use more complex language to describe a range of shapes in Year 3. This worksheet focuses on the properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes, including and understanding of lines of symmetry and angles.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Properties of Shape: Year 3 Worked Examples

This worksheet focuses more on the key vocabulary needed to describe properties of shape including vocabulary for lines (vertical/ parallel), 2-D shapes (quadrilateral) and angles (acute angles, right angles).

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Year 3 free statistics worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on statistics: code crackers.

Children are presented one-step and two-step retrieval questions about a bar chart and table. The worksheet helps them to develop their ability to read and interpret data presented in different ways. Simple tables are not new to Year 3 pupils and bar charts build on their existing knowledge of block diagrams.

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Other year 3 statistics worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets on statistics: worked examples.

In this worksheet, children are presented with a table, pictogram and a bar chart to read and interpret. This worksheet highlights some of the common errors that are made by Year 3 children in statistics lessons.

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Year 3 fluency, reasoning and problem solving worksheets

Year 3 maths worksheets for improving mental maths, arithmetic and fluency: fluent in five.

We recommend every primary school child starts their day with Fluent in Five. It’s 5-10 minutes of daily arithmetic questions; at this age, your child has to answer 4 questions using either a written or mental method and it’s a fantastic way to develop their numeracy. You’ll be amazed how quickly they become able to switch back and forth from column addition to the mental method with 3-digit numbers!

Download the free Year 3 Arithmetic worksheets

Year 3 Maths Worksheets for problem solving and reasoning: Rapid Reasoning

Children often struggle with maths reasoning at KS2 , e specially in lower Key Stage 2. This set of more than 120 maths reasoning questions includes modelled answers and step by step guidance to support pupils through solving them. Each Year 3 maths reasoning worksheet has approximately 4 questions on it.

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Year 3 Maths Test: Times Tables

It’s essential that children become proficient and quick at their times tables especially now the multiplication tables check is coming into force and schools really need parents support in this. Here are some quick times tables tests that Year 3 children can mark themselves to identify any gaps in their times tables and track their progress.

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Year 3 Maths Test: All Topics

This Year 3 maths assessment covers the entire Year 3 maths curriculum and is a great way to get an overall view of how a child is doing in maths. There are two tests: a year 3 maths arithmetic test and a year 3 maths reasoning test. Although the time allowed may vary, at home we recommend setting aside an hour for each. Remember that some topics they may not yet have covered in class, so like any formative or summative assessment it’s only a snapshot.

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Also in this series…

Year 2 Maths Curriculum Toolkit for 6 & 7 Year Olds
Year 2 Maths Worksheets
Year 4 Maths Curriculum Toolkit for 8 & 9 Year Olds
Year 4 Maths Worksheets
Year 5 Maths Curriculum Toolkit for 9 & 10 Year Olds
Year 5 Maths Worksheets
Year 6 Maths Curriculum Toolkit for 10 & 11 Year Olds
Year 6 Maths Worksheets

Looking for fun games and activities to boost pupils’ learning? We’ve got several articles sharing teacher approved maths activities and fun maths games , including KS2 maths games , KS1 maths games and KS3 maths games for all maths topics and a set of 35 times tables games and multiplication games you’ll want to bookmark whichever year group you teach!

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