Year 3 Maths & Reasoning Skills

Core Program

A comprehensive course that develops your child’s potential in the key subject areas of Mathematics and General Ability. Each lesson contains 90 minutes of training in numeracy and thinking skills.

Course Goals
  • Develop advanced knowledge of numbers in thousands and beyond
  • Develop numerical operations
  • Develop understandings of fractions and decimals
  • Develop a range of thinking skills (general ability) concepts
  • Develop concepts of area, time and measurement using formal & informal units
  • Develop concepts of graphing, money, chance and probability
  • Develop concepts of shape, position and temperature
  • Develop basic exam techniques and problem solving skills
Course Structure
  • 4 terms in a year, 10 weeks in a term
  • 1.5 hour lessons per week, during term
  • Can be combined with Creative Writing (Maths & General Ability + Creative Writing: 2 hour lessons per week)
  • Can be combined with English (English, Maths & General Ability: 3 hour lessons per week)
  • Students attend lessons at their allocated time schedule
  • Small class group based
  • Experienced educators
Course Outline

Year 3 Maths & Reasoning Skills

Term 1
Week 1 — Revision, Basic arithmetic, problem solving, speed and accuracy
Week 2 — BODMAS, Basic arithmetic, speed and accuracy, problem solving
Week 3 — Roman numerals, problem solving, time, measurement and volume
Week 4 — Clock faces, digital time, telling time, revision – mental arithmetic, PS
Week 5 — Adding and subtracting time, speed & accuracy, PS, revision – multiplication
Week 6 — Problem solving, factors, numerical computations, revision – BODMAS
Week 7 — Problem solving, concept teaching – division, number variation, division, logic
Week 8 — Term test, fractions, concept teaching – fractions, revision, logic & lateral thinking
Week 9 — Concept teaching – application of division, variations, speed and accuracy – Multiplication
Week 10 — Concept teaching – fractions, problem solving, speed and accuracy, logic and later thinking

Term 2
Week 1 — Decimals, Thinking skills – Data processing, Number Pairs,
Week 2 — Units of Length, AR- Number triplets, Logical Thinking – coding,
Week 3 — Units of volume and Mass, making numbers with digits, thinking skills – ordering
Week 4 — Fractions, organizing information, addition of shapes, number series,
Week 5 — Adding/subtracting fractions, units, Tessellation, subtraction of shapes
Week 6 — Improper fractions to mixed numerals, fractions of numbers, tiles, shape analogies
Week 7 — Analogue clocks, 12-24 hours, tiles, AR – revision
Week 8 — Term test, Logic and lateral thinking, speed & accuracy, revision
Week 9 — Fractions – percentages – decimals, letter sequences, rotation
Week 10 — Term summary, revision, speed & accuracy, number patters,

Term 3
Week 1 — 2-digit multiplication, Problem solving, Organising information, spatial reasoning
Week 2 — Perimeter, Area, Data processing, rotations
Week 3 — Area – Triangles, composite figures, PS, rotations
Week 4 — Division, Assumptions, shape analogies
Week 5 — Revision – adding/subtracting fractions, averages, ordering, picture series
Week 6 — Improper fractions & Mixed Numerals, Division, Shape views, matrices
Week 7 — Negative numbers, reading scales, Area, making conclusions, spatial reasoning
Week 8 — Term test, Time units’ conversion, analog & digital notation, PS
Week 9 — Roman numbers, x3 numbers, pyramids and prisms, cube nets, number patterns
Week 10 — Term revision, Picture coding, time

Term 4
Week 1 — Data, Tables to display data, constructing & interpreting column graphs, rounding off
Week 2 — Data, data collection, horizontal column graphs, PS
Week 3 — Space and geometry, position and directions, using a protractor, PS
Week 4 — Plotting coordinates, equivalent fractions, revision test, PS
Week 5 — Mixed number & improper fractions, decimals, PS
Week 6 — Numbers, addition & subtraction of fractions, time, 24-hour time, PS
Week 7 — Fractions & Decimals, subtraction of fraction from whole number, decimals in length
Week 8 — Term test
Week 9 — Subtraction of decimals, timetables & timelines, PS
Week 10 — Percentages, conversation into decimals or fractions, average, fair share, PS

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