Primary 3 Maths Curriculum
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Numbers To 10000
- Reading and writing numbers in numerals
- Reading and writing numbers in words
- Count to 10 000
- Use a place value chart to show numbers to 10 000
- Number notation, representations and place values
- Compare numbers with different digits in the thousands place
- Compare numbers with the same digits in the thousands place
- Compare numbers with the same digits in the thousands place and hundreds place
- Order numbers using a place value chart
- Number patterns within 10 000
- Form smallest/biggest odd/even number with 4 given digits
Addition & Subtraction Within 10000
- Meaning of Sum
- Meaning of Difference
- Add 4-digit numbers without regrouping
- Add 4-digit numbers with regrouping in hundreds
- Add 4-digit numbers with regrouping in ones, tens and hundreds
- Subtract 4-digit numbers without regrouping
- Subtract 4-digit numbers with regrouping in thousands and hundreds
- Subtract 4-digit numbers with regrouping in ones, tens, hundreds and thousands
- Subtract 4-digit numbers across zeros
- Solve 1-step word problems
- Solve 2-part word problems
- Solve 2-step word problems
Multiplication Tables of 6, 7, 8 and 9
- Build up the multiplication table of 6
- Build up the multiplication table of 7
- Build up the multiplication table of 8
- Build up the multiplication table of 9
- Division facts of 6
- Division facts of 7
- Division facts of 8
- Division facts of 9
- Divide to find the number of items in each group using related multiplication facts of 6, 7, 8 and 9
- Divide to make equal groups using related multiplication facts of 6, 7, 8 and 9
Multiplication & Division
- Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number without regrouping
- Multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number without regrouping
- Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with regrouping in ones and tens
- Multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number with regrouping in ones, tens and hundreds
- Quotient and Remainder
- Divide a 1-digit number by a 1-digit number without a remainder
- Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with a remainder
- Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number without regrouping and remainder
- Divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number with regrouping without a remainder
- Use part-whole models to solve multiplication problems
- Using comparison models to solve multiplication problems
- Use comparison models to solve two-step multiplication problems
- Use part-whole models to solve division problems
- Use comparison models to solve division problems
- Use models to solve two-step problems involving whole numbers
- Two-step problem involving multiplication and subtraction
Money
- Value of $1000
- Add the dollars only
- Add the cents only
- Add the dollars and cents using number bonds
- Add dollars and cents by first adding cents to make one dollar
- Add dollars and cents by first making dollars
- Add money by adding one dollar and subtracting the extra cents
- Add money by first changing dollars and cents to cents
- Subtract the dollars only
- Subtract the cents only
- Subtract the dollars and cents using number bonds
- Subtract money by subtracting one dollar and adding the extra cents
- Subtract money by subtracting whole dollars and adding the extra cents
- Subtract money by first changing dollars and cents to cents
- Find the sum of two amount represented as dollars in decimal notation and cents respectively
- Solve two-step word problems involving money
Length
- Measuring length in metres and centimetres
- Convert metres and centimetres to centimetres
- Convert centimetres to metres and centimetres
- Measuring length in kilometres and metres
- Convert kilometres and metres to metres
- Convert metres to kilometres and metres
- Solve one-step word problems involving length
- Solve two-step word problems involving length
Mass
- Read scales in grams
- Read scales in kilograms and grams
- Convert kilograms and grams to grams
- Convert grams to kilograms and grams
- Solve one-step word problems involving mass
- Solve two-step word problems involving mass
Volume
- Use litres and millilitres to measure capacity
- Use measuring cups to measure volume
- Use measuring cups to measure in litres and millilitres
- Convert litres and millilitres to millilitres
- Convert millilitres to litres and millilitres
- Solve one-step word problems involving volume
- Solve two-step word problems involving volume
Time
- Tell and write time to 1 minute
- Tell time and use the terms “past” and “to”
- Convert hours to minutes
- Convert hours and minutes to minutes
- Convert minutes to hours and minutes
- Find duration
- Find duration in hours and minutes
- Find the end time given the start time and duration
- Find the start time given the duration and end time
- Add time without regrouping
- Add time with regrouping
- Subtract time without regrouping
- Subtract time with regrouping
- Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time
Fractions
- Understand numerators and denominators
- Write the equivalent fraction of a given fraction
- Use multiplication to find equivalent fractions
- Use division to find equivalent fractions
- Express a fraction in its simplest form
- Compare unlike fractions using multiplication
- Compare unlike fractions using division
- Order like fractions
- Compare fractions with the same numerator
- Compare and order unlike fractions
- Add fractions
- Subtract fractions
Angles
- Find angles in shapes and objects around you
- Count the number of sides and angles of shapes
- Compare angles to right angles
- Find right angles in shapes
- Identify right angles from given figures “
- Identify obtuse angles from given figures ”
- Identify acute angles from given figures
Perpendicular And Parallel Lines
- Identify perpendicular lines
- Identify parallel lines
- Identify horizontal and vertical lines
- Identify perpendicular relationship between lines
- Identify parallel relationship between lines
Area and Perimeter
- Count square tiles to find area
- Use square units and half-square units to measure area
- Find the area of plane figures in square centimetres
- Find the area of plane surfaces in square metres
- Find the area of squares and rectangles
- Find areas involving squares and triangles
- Find the perimeter of a figure
- Solve word problems involving the area of squares and rectangles
- Solve word problems involving the perimeter of squares and rectangles
Bar Graphs
- Make bar graphs from picture graphs
- Read and interpret vertical bar graphs
- Read and interpret horizontal bar graphs
High-ability - Numbers To 10000
- Addition of two numbers written as thousands/hundreds/tens/ones
- Add or subtract tens/hundreds to/from a number
- Find a value to an operation in tens/hundreds
- Find a value to an operation expressed in tens/hundreds
High-ability - Addition & Subtraction
- Find the bigger or smaller number, given the difference and the sum of two numbers
- Find the quantity for an event, given the quantity for the other events and the relationship among various events
- Find the secret number, given the events of operations and the final value
- Find the amount for one item, given total amount, amount for another item and the relationship among the items
High-ability - Multiplication & Division
- Find the quantity for each item, given total quantity, remaining quantity and number of items
- Find the quantity for each item, given another quantity-item relationship and number of items
- Find remaining quantity, given total quantity and a repeated quantity relationship
- Find the number of items, given total quantity, final quantity and a repeated quantity relationship
- Find the quantity for an item, given the quantity-item relationship for another item and the relationship among the items
- Find the number of items, given the total quantity and the unitary quantity of each item
- Given quantity of one set and relationship between sets, find quantity for another set
High-ability - Money
- Find the initial amount, given spending amount and final amount
- Find the total amount, given amount for one person and the relationship to the other person. Involve dollar-cent conversion
- Find quantity after an event, given total amount and the price of an item
- Find the amount for one person, given the amount for the other person and the relationship among various persons
- Find the amount for an event needed, given the final amount required, amount for one event and the relationship between events
- Find the total amount, given the amount for one person and the relationship among various persons
- Find the amount for one person, given total amount and the relationship among various persons
- Find the amount for an event, given the initial amount, find amount and amount for another event
- Find the amount for one person, given total amount and the relationship among various persons
- Find the quantity of notes for one denomination given the total value and the quantity of notes for other denominations
- Given total amount, amount remaining and number of sets, find amount in each set
- Given amount for one character and amount relationship, find total amount
- Given total amount, and number in each set, find number of sets with remainder involved
- Given amount for one character and amount relationship, find total amount
- Given total amount and cost of one item, find cost relationship
- Given final amount and events, find initial amount
- Given initial amount and unit amount for one event, find final amount
- Given cost of items and additional amount, find initial amount
- Given amount for one type of notes and change given, find cost
- Given unitary cost and cost condition, find total cost
- Given amounts between different characters, find total amount
- Given relationships between different quantities of items, find cost of one single item
- Given total cost, cost of one item and number of items, find cost of the other item
- Given quantity, amount paid and change amount, find unit price
- Given total quantity, total amount and unit price of one item, find unit price of the other item
- Given unit price and total amount, find quantity of one item
- Given unit price, total amount & difference in unit price, find quantity of one item
- Given two sets of item-cost relationship, find amount for a set of items
High-ability - Measurement
- Given the initial length and an event, find final length
- Given the distance run by one character and distance relationship, find distance run by another character
- Given initial length and unit length in one event, find final length
- Given total height and height for one character, find difference in height by conversion of units
- Given travelled distance and remaining distance, find total distance by conversion of units
- Given total mass and mass relationship, find mass of one item
- Given initial mass and one event, find final mass with conversion of units
- Given initial mass and number of sets, find final mass
- Given mass of one item and total mass, find difference in mass by conversion of units
- Given initial mass and required mass, find final mass by conversion of units
- Given single and repeated volume, find total volume
- Given initial volume and repeated volume, find final volume
- Given unitary volume, find total volume
- Given total capacity and required volume, find initial volume with conversion of units
- Given total volume and unitary volume, find number of containers
- Given total volume and volume relationship, find volume for one character
- Given initial volume and number of sets, find final volume
- Given total volume and volume of one item, find difference between volumes with conversion of units
High-ability - Time
- Given time in duration, find time before or after
- Given duration expressed in hours and minutes, convert to minutes
- Find number of days for a given duration
- Given starting and ending time, find duration
- Given ending time and duration, find starting time
- Find ending time given starting time and duration, with concept of past
- Given time for an event and relative time on a watch, find actual time
- Find total time duration given two events
- Find difference in time given two events
- Given ending time and duration of two events, find starting time
- Given starting time and duration of two events, find ending time
- Given starting time and ending time, find part of duration
- Given ending time, duration of events and time relationship, find starting time of one character
- Given amount for unit time, find total amount within a period of time
- Given total time and relationship between time spent, find duration for one event
High-ability - Fractions
- Solve word problems involving the sum of two given fractions
- Solve word problems involving the difference between 1 whole and related fractions
- Given initial quantity and one event, find fraction of item left
- Given initial quantity and two events, find fraction of item left
- Given initial quantity, fraction of quantity remaining, find quantity in one event
- Given quantities of items, find fraction of one item within a group
High-ability - Bar Graphs
- Bar graph reading, unit value
- Bar graph reading, unit and scale
- Bar graph reading, unit reading, most and least
- Bar graph reading, more or less
- Bar graph reading, unitary item
- Solve problem using data given in a bar graph
- Solve problem using data given in a bar graph with two or more bars
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