Year 3 Maths — What Your Child Will Learn
Children often understand maths in class but forget it weeks later because they don’t practise it again. Out of School gives short daily practice across every topic for their year (number, calculation, fractions, measurement, geometry and problem solving), and keeps bringing earlier topics back, so skills build on each other instead of being forgotten. Every answer is marked straight away, with worked solutions when your child is stuck.
What Your Child Will Learn in Year 3 Maths
What Children Often Find Difficult
What children struggle with
Common mistakes to watch for
How You Can Help at Home
Year 4 brings the MTC — start now
The national Multiplication Tables Check sits in Year 4. Year 3 is the ideal time to lock in the 3, 4 and 8 times tables before Year 4 pressure adds 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 to the mix.
Always ask your child to show their working
The process matters as much as the answer from Year 3 onwards. Showing working reveals where errors happen and is directly rewarded in KS2 SATs reasoning papers.
Fractions and decimals start here
Fractions, decimals and percentages account for around 30% of 2025 KS2 SATs marks. Year 3 is when fractions are introduced properly — the foundations built now are tested heavily in Year 6.
Year 3 & KS2 SATs Relevance
There are no SATs in Year 3. But the column methods, times table fluency and fraction understanding built this year are directly tested in Year 6 KS2 SATs. Analysis of the 2025 SATs papers showed fractions, decimals and percentages accounted for 30% of all marks.
Example Homework Questions
Question
346 + 278 = ?
Expected Answer
624
Skill Tested
Column addition with carrying
Question
What is 7 divided by 10 as a decimal?
Expected Answer
0.7
Skill Tested
Tenths and decimals
Question
A rectangle is 8cm long and 5cm wide. What is its perimeter?
Expected Answer
26cm
Skill Tested
Perimeter calculation
Spot Year 3 Gaps Before They Become Year 6 Problems
The skills built in Year 3 — column methods, times tables, fractions — are the same ones tested in Year 6 SATs. Out of School lets you see which topics your child has mastered and which need more practice, three years before it matters most.
Topic-by-topic tracking
See which curriculum areas are strong and which need work — broken down by individual topic, not just a single percentage.
Homework visibility
Every piece of homework set is visible to parents in real time — questions, answers, and accuracy — as soon as the session ends.
Tutor reports
After every session, parents receive a progress update covering what was covered, what went well, and what to focus on next.