Grade 3 Mathematics

Compose and Create

• Articles and determiners
• Commas in lists
• Conjunctions
• Contractions
• Group ideas into paragraphs
• Irregular plurals
• Narrative with beginning, middle and end
• Past and present tense
• Pronouns
• Subject–verb agreement
• Suffixes -ing, -ed and -er

Comprehend and Respond

• Alphabetical order and dictionaries
• Compound words
• Decode multi-syllable words
• Decode words with prefixes and suffixes
• Main idea of a paragraph
• Non-fiction text features
• Retrieve facts from non-fiction
• Synonyms and shades of meaning

Number

• 3, 4 and 8 times tables
• Column addition without regrouping
• Compare and order numbers to 1,000
• Compare fractions with the same denominator
• Count in 50s and 100s
• Make amounts and give change
• Mental strategies with three-digit numbers
• Place value: hundreds, tens and ones

Patterns and Relations

• Number patterns and pattern rules

Shape and Space

• a.m., p.m. and the 12-hour clock
• Grams, kilograms, litres and millilitres
• Line symmetry
• Right angles and turns
• Tell the time to the minute

Statistics and Probability

• Bar charts
• Collect data with surveys