Primary 3 Mathematics
The jump into P3 is real, and it is mostly about reading. Numbers reach 10 000, measurement gets far more demanding, and word problems stop announcing what to do. A child can understand every topic below and still lose marks because the question was longer than they expected.
Numbers
Whole Numbers
- Age problems
- Comparing and ordering numbers
- Counting in hundreds and thousands (numbers up to 10 000)
- Dividing by 10, 100, 1000 and their multiples
- Gap problems
- Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 and their multiples
- Number notation, representations and place values (thousands, hundreds, tens, ones)
- Patterns in number sequences
- Place value
- Reading and writing numbers in numerals and in words
- Rounding and estimation
- Word problems involving whole numbers
Fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Expressing a fraction in its simplest form
- Comparing fractions
- Comparing and ordering unlike fractions with denominators of given fractions not exceeding 12
- Finding the middle fractions of 2 fractions
- Adding and subtracting two related fractions within one whole with denominators of given fractions not exceeding 12
- Addition and subtraction of mixed numbers
- Product of a fraction and a whole number
- Product of a mixed number and a whole number
- Product of two fractions
- Dividing a fraction by a whole number
- Dividing by a proper fraction
- Fractions and division
- Fractions of the remainder
- Solving word problems involving fractions
Addition and Subtraction
- Addition and subtraction of up to 4 digits
- Mental calculation involving addition and subtraction of two 2-digit numbers
- Solving up to 2-step word problems involving addition and subtraction
Money
- Convert cents to dollars
- Convert dollars to cents
- Adding and subtracting money in decimal notation
- Multiplication of money
- Division of money
- Word problem involving exchanging of money
- Solving 1-step word problems involving addition and subtraction of money in dollars or cents only
- Solving word problems involving money in dollars only (or in cents only)
- Solving word problems involving addition and subtraction of money in decimal notation
- Solving word problems involving money
Multiplication and Division
- Multiplication tables of 6, 7, 8 and 9
- Multiplying and dividing within the multiplication tables
- Division with remainder
- Multiplication and division up to 3 digits by 1 digit
- Mental calculation involving multiplication and division within the multiplication tables
- Solving up to 2-step word problems involving the 4 operations
Fractions and Decimals
- Comparing fractions and decimals and rearranging them
Measurement and Geometry
Length, Mass and Volume
- Measuring length in kilometres (km) and volume of liquid in millilitres (ml)
- Measuring length, mass and volume of liquid in compound units
- Converting a measurement in compound units to the smaller unit and vice versa
- Addition of lengths in kilometres and metres, with and without regrouping
- Addition of lengths in metres and centimetres, with and without regrouping
- Subtraction of lengths in kilometres and metres, with and without regrouping
- Subtraction of lengths in metres and centimetres, with and without regrouping
- Addition of mass, with and without regrouping
- Subtraction of mass, with and without regrouping
- Addition of volume, with and without regrouping
- Subtraction of volume, with and without regrouping
- Division of lengths
- Division of mass
- Solving word problems involving length, mass, volume and capacity
Area and Perimeter
- Concepts of area and perimeter of a plane figure
- Measuring area in square units, cm² and m²
- Area of rectangle and square
- Perimeter of rectangle and square
Geometry
- 8-point direction
- Lines and straight lines
- Parallel and perpendicular lines
- Shapes: circles and semicircles
- Symmetry
Angles
- Right angles
- Angles at a point
- Arranging angles
Solid Figures and Nets
- Solids
- Nets of solids
Statistics
Bar Graphs
- Reading and interpreting data from bar graphs
- Using different scales on axis
- Solving 1-step problems using data from bar graphs
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