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105Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
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1. Put the following numbers in order starting with the smallest. Can you work out the secret
message?
! – 500 R – 223 S – 45 K – 478
L – 189 O – 151 C – 367 H – 101
O – 134 O – 267 C – 98 S – 488
2. What is the largest and smallest number you can make using these digits?
Largest Smallest Largest Smallest
(a) 4 7 2 (b) 0 5 8
(c) 6 0 3 (d) 3 5 0
(e) 2 8 5 (f) 4 1 6
(g) 4 7 9 (h) 6 4 2
3. Round the following numbers to the nearest ten. Remember to look at the unit number.
(a) 37 (b) 12
(c) 82 (d) 44
(e) 69 (f) 57
(g) 85 (h) 66
(i) 64 (j) 93
4. Round the following numbers to the nearest hundred. Remember to look at the tens digit.
(a) 367 (b) 123
(c) 432 (d) 460
(e) 679 (f) 728
(g) 256 (h) 198
(i) 739 (j) 89
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26
21
42
74 83440
98
92
139
128
26
50
128
87
989
161
872
908
93
949
89
125
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2144
820
619
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1. Red
(a) 14 + 12 = ________
(b) 46 + 67 + 145 = ________
(c) 56 + 33
(d) 79
+ 46
(e) 256
+ 363
3. Blue
(a) 8 + 13 = ________
(b) 267 + 166 + 387 = ________
(c) 67 + 26
(d) 46
+ 82
(e) 163
+ 745
6. Yellow
(a) 26 + 16 = ________ (b) 73
+ 25 (c) 85
+ 76
(d) 537
+ 335
4. White
(a) 35 + 9 = ________
5. Black
(a) 24 + 16 = ________
(b) 74 + 18
(c) 92
+ 47
(d) 900
+ 89
(b) 28 + 46
(c) 37
+ 99
(d) 561
+ 273
2. Green
(a) 30 + 20 = ________
(b) 567 + 34 + 123 = ________
(c) 42 + 45
(d) 59
+ 74
(e) 582
+ 367
1. Complete these addition questions
to colour the picture correctly.
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107Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
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1. Complete these number squares. The numbers in the corners add together to give you the
centre number.
For example: Now you have a go!
(a)
(b) (c) (d)
(e) (f) (g)
Now make some of your own to give to a friend.
2 5 3
8 6
6 9 3 6 + 3 = 9
2 + 3 = 5
2 +
6 =
8
3 +
3 =
6
12 10
13 34
25 46
76
52
135 267
367 245
71
138 82 94
167
256 134 345
48 9
97 67
245 387
456 478
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108 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
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1. What time is shown on each clock?
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(e) (f) (g) (h)
2. What time will it be 10 minutes later?
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(e) (f) (g) (h)
3. Write these times in digital form.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(e) (f) (g) (h)
:
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109Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
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Heuston Station 09:30 am 11:05 am 02:30 pm 06:30 pm
Kildare 10:03 am 12:03 pm ... ...
Tullamore 10:37 am 12:34 pm ... ...
Athlone 11:09 am 01:04 pm ... ...
Ballinasloe 11:24 am 01:20 pm ... 07:50 pm
Athenry 11:49 am 01:47 pm ... ...
Galway 12:03 am 02:07 pm 04:04 pm ...
1. What time does the fastest train from Heuston to Galway leave Dublin? _______________
2. At how many stations does the 09:30 train stop? _______________
3. How long does it take the 11:09 train from Athlone to reach Galway? _______________
4. You have to arrive in Galway by 2:00pm. Which train would you catch from Heuston?
_______________
5. You get to Ballinasloe at 1:00pm. How long will you have to wait for a train? _______________
6. Which train is the fastest? Why? ___________________________________________________
7. Why are there no train times in the 4th column after 7:50pm? _______________
8. (a) If you missed the first train of the day by ten minutes, how long would you have to wait
until the next train? _______________
(b) Which would be quicker, to wait for the next train to Galway or get the bus at 10:00 that
takes 2 12 hours? _______________
9. If the 9:00 didn’t stop at any other station apart from Galway, at what time would it arrive?
Use the timetable to help you. _______________
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110 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Tick the lines that are parallel.
2. How many angles can you count?
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e) (f)
How many right angles are there altogether in the above pictures? _____________
3.
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(a) How many horizontal
lines can you count?
____________________
(b) How many vertical
lines can you count?
____________________
(c) Can you name any other
lines in the picture?
____________________
____________________
____________________
(a)(b)
(c)
(d)(e)
(f)
_____________ _____________ _____________
_____________ _____________ _____________
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111Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. (a) 64
– 58
(b) 41
– 37
(c) 70
– 46
(d) 77
– 29
(e) 48
– 29
(f) There are 78 pages in Nellie’s book. If she has read 49, how many more pages does she need
to read? ____________________
(g) There are 74 chairs in the school hall. If only 58 parents arrive for a meeting how many free
seats are there? ____________________
(h) It is 70 metres from one end of the school yard to the other. If Asher has run 56 metres how
much farther does he need to go to reach the other end? ____________________
2. Complete the following sums. Use the rough space below work out the answers.
45
– 15
– 12
– 18
0
86
– 24
– 36
– 26
0
105
– 50
– 23
– 32
0
165
– 87
– 35
– 43
0
Rough work!
3. (a) 543
– 275
(b) 540
– 378
(c) 751
– 285
(d) 681
– 392
(e) 627
– 539
(f) 306
– 258
(g) 500
– 256
(h) 249
– 207
(i) 400
– 163
(j) 501
– 367
(k) There are 700 pupils in the local primary school. If 402 of them are boys how many girls are
in the school? ____________________
(l) For a charity event 900 balloons were let off in Dublin. 278 fewer than that were let off in
Cork, how many balloons did they let off in Cork? ____________________
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(a) (b) (c) (d)
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112 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. What’s the missing number?
(a) 346 + ______ = 589 (b) 267 + ______ = 781
(c) 478 + ______ = 789 (d) 800 + ______ = 999
(e) 500 + ______ = 892 (f) 793 + ______ = 895
(g) 256 – ______ = 167 (h) 789 – ______ = 367
(i) 681 – ______ = 278 (j) 689 – ______ = 378
(k) 999 – ______ = 444 (l) 300 – ______ = 167
2. Subtraction triangles. Find the difference between each corner number to give you the
centre number. The first one has been done for you.
3. Solve these problems
(a) There are 780 people at a concert. 578 of these are adults. How many children are there? _____________
(b) In Emily’s school library there are 976 books, 356 are fiction, 279 are non-fiction and 68 are poetry books. The rest are teacher books. How many teacher books are there? _____________
(c) At a school summer camp there were 456 boys. How many children were at the summer camp if there were 67 more girls than boys? _____________
(d) A train pulled up to station with 875 people on board. 345 people got off and 478 got on. How many more people are now on the train? _____________
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12
58
7
3
4
68
46
14
95
6847
200
145267
46
23
3
278467
167
(a)
(d)
(b)
(e)
(c)
(f)
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113Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Fill in the missing fractions then answer the questions.
12
18
14
What fraction is shaded?
What fraction is shaded?
What fraction is shaded?
What fraction is shaded?
What fraction is shaded?
What fraction is shaded?
2. Put the following in order, starting with the smallest.
(a) 38
78
28 _____________________ (b) 7
8 34
24 _____________________
(c) 58
68
14 _____________________ (d) 1
4 1 48 _____________________
(e) 34
48
14 _____________________ (f) 6
8 12 1 _____________________
3. Complete this number line.
0 1 212
18
68
14
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(a)
(d)
(b)
(e)
(c)
(f)
18
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114 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Circle the biggest fraction.
(a) 58
78
38 (b) 1
2 78
38
(c) 88
34
12 (d) 1
8 14
12
(e) 1 112
78 (f) 32
8 314 3
38
(g) 12
14
58 (h) 3
8 14
12
2. Complete this number line.
1 2
3. Use your fraction wall to help you answer these questions.
(a) 12 = 4 (b) 6
8 = 4 (c) 24 = 1
(d) 112 = 4 (e) 3
4 = 6 (f) 114 = 1 8
(g) 8 = 1 (h) 4 = 22 (i) 3
4 = 12 + 1
4. Colour the picture, each equivalent fraction should be the same colour.
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18 14 and fractions equivalent to 1
4
38 12 and fractions equivalent to 1
2
58 34 and fractions equivalent to 3
4
78
1 or fractions equivalent to 1
18
18
14
28
28
38
38
58
78
78
34
68
88
912
612
1216
red
green
orange
blue
purple
pink
yellow
grey
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115Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Number of mobile phones recycled by Mill Lane School.320
Mr Jacob’s class
Ms Fahy’s class
Ms McNally’s class
Mr Scully’s class
Mrs Jones’ class
280
240
200
160
120
80
40
0
(a) How many mobile phones did Mr Jacob’s class recycle? ________________
(b) How many mobile phones did Ms Jones’ class recycle? ________________
(c) How much more than Ms Jones’ class did Mr Jacob’s class recycle? ________________
(d) How much did Ms McNally’s class and Ms Fahy’s class recycle altogether? ________________
(e) If the target for all the classes was 1,000 mobiles, did the school reach their target? _________
By how much? ________________
(f) Are the numbers on the scale counting up in 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s or 50s? ________________
(g) There was a competition in the school to see which class recycling the most, who won?
________________
(h) How much more would Mrs Jones’ class have needed to collect if they wanted to win?
________________
2. Now make your own graph. The title will be: ‘Hair colour in my class.’
How many children have: red, blonde, brown or black hair?
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116 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Multiply and then colour.
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Red = 10, 15, 20, 60
Blue = 80, 50, 8, 12
Green = 0, 14, 40, 2
Yellow = 30, 90, 100, 6
Purple = 25, 70, 35, 5
Grey = 16, 45, 18
Answers
3 x 5
5 x 2 4 x 5
6 x 10
5 x 10
8 x 10
4 x 22 x 3
6 x 2
8 x 2
9 x 5
9 x 2
10 x 2
0 x 5
7 x 2
8 x 51 x 2
3 x 109 x 10
10 x 103 x 2 3 x 10
10 x 5
6 x 5
6 x 1
5 x 5
7 x 10
7 x 5
1 x 5
2 x 10
2 x 4
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117Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
÷ = Share equally
1. Share 15 apples equally between 5 children.
15 ÷ 5 = _____
2. Share 8 apples equally between 2 girls.
8 ÷ 2 = _____
3. Share 30 bananas equally between 10 monkeys.
30 ÷ 10 = _____
4. Share 14 candles equally between 2 cakes.
14 ÷ 2 = _____
5. Share 35 lollipop sticks equally between 5 children.
35 ÷ 5 = _____
÷ 2
10
20
14
818
6
12
2
÷ 5
15
45
35
505
25
10
30
÷ 10
90
70
10
5080
40
20
30
3. Match each question to the correct answer.
(a) 40 ÷ 10 = ___ (i) 9
(b) 12 ÷ 2 = ___ (ii) 7
(c) 10 ÷ 5 = ___ (iii) 8
(d) 16 ÷ 2 = ___ (iv) 4
(e) 35 ÷ 5 = ___ (v) 2
(f) 90 ÷ 10 = ___ (vi) 6
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2. (a) (b) (c)
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118 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Write a division problem for each of the following.
(a) 35 ÷ 5 =
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
(b) 60 ÷ 10 =
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
(c) 14 ÷ 2 =
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Story Maths
For the end of year party, the teacher bought her class some treats. She bought 3 bumper bags
of popcorn, 32 lollipops, 5 trays of apples, 6 packs of gel pens and 30 bouncy balls. They set the
class up so that there were 3 large tables instead of 6 small tables. All the children received one of
each item, although there were some lollipops left over.
(a) How many children do you think are in the class if the number of children is a multiple
of 2, 5, 6 and 10. _____________
(b) How many packets of popcorn were in each bag? _____________
(c) How many children sat at each table? _____________
(d) How many apples were in each tray if there were no apples left? _____________
(e) How many gel pens were in a packet? _____________
(f) If the bouncy balls came in 2 packets, how many would be in each? _____________
(g) If the apples cost €3 altogether, how much would one apple cost? _____________
(h) Each set of treats cost the same and the total bill came to €45. How much did each of the set
of treats cost? _____________
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119Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. What fraction and decimal is shaded in each shape?Fraction Decimal
0.10
Now write these decimal fractions as a fractions.
(a) 2 110 2.1
(b) 1 610
(c) 3 210
(d) 5 810
(e) 4 410
(f) 1.6 1 610
(g) 3.7
(h) 2.9
(i) 4.1
(j) 6.4
2. Write these fractions as a decimal fraction.
3. Complete these number lines.0 0.4 0.8 1
3 3.5 3.7 4
6 6.1 7
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120 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. How much money is in each piggy bank?
2. Using the coins shown, mark the number of each coin you will need to buy the following. The
first one has been done for you.
Magazine €2.45 1 2 1
Ice-cream €0.85
Water €1.94
Pencil €0.49
Newspaper €1.63
Biscuits €3.78
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121Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Toy Shop
(a) If the duck was half price, how much would you pay for it? ____________
(b) You find €10 in the street, what two items can you buy so that you will have no change?
____________
(c) There is a special offer: Buy two get the third one free. What three items would you choose
and how much would you save if you got the cheapest one free? ____________,
____________, ____________, ____________
(d) If you buy a ball and a truck and hand the cashier €20 how much change will you get?
____________
(e) What coins would you use to pay for the ball? Use as few coins as possible. ____________
(f) The receipt says that you can return any item within 28 days only. If you bought something on
the 15 of June, what is the last day you can return it? ____________
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€6. 99
€3. 99
€2 .50
€3.99
€4.59
€2.99
€24 .99
€1 .49
€7 .50
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122 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Mr and Mrs Sellers are having a garage sale.
They will open at 10 o’clock and close at 3:30.
How long will they be open for? _________
Book bin prices
Hardback books €1.60
Children’s books €1.25
Magazines €0.40
2. Dermot goes to the sale and sees a book bin. He buys 2 hardback books, one children’s book
and a magazine. How much does it cost him altogether? _______________
3. Joanne is looking for a present for her brother; she spots a model aeroplane for €3.80 and a toy
car for €4.75. How much more expensive is the toy car? _______________
4. What change will Joanne get from €10 if she buys the aeroplane? _______________
5. Luke, a local teacher buys books for his classroom. He buys 32 books. He asks for some boxes
to carry them, if 8 books fit in each box how many boxes will he need? _______________
6. A CD costs €2. How many CDs can Kris buy with €10? _______________
7. Habeeb buys a toy helicopter. When he turns it on in what direction does it take off,
horizontally or vertically? _______________
8. Matthew buys a dart game, when he goes home he plays with his sister Sarah. With ten darts
Sarah scores 205 points. Matthew scores 250 points with ten darts. How many more points did
Matthew score? _______________
9. At the end of the day Mr and Mrs Sellers count their money. Mr Sellers made €140. He made
€25 more than Mrs Sellers. How much money did Mrs Sellers make? _______________
10. It took Mr and Mrs Sellers 40 minutes to tidy up after the garage sale. What time did they finish?
_______________
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Garage Sale!
Open 10amClose 3.30pm
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123Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Can you work out these puzzles? To solve them you need you need to look closely at the
words and clues. Each are common phrases.
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Here the word Jack is written in a box.
So the answer is Jack in the box.Jack
BADwolf
SECRETSECRETSECRETSECRET
RI
PT
the worldWater
Swim
Stood
MissNA NA
sister TREE
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124 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Measure the following lines.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
2. There are 3 paths winding through the park. Measure the length of each.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d) Which path is the shortest? ________
3. (a) m cm
2 35
+ 1 52
(b) m cm
3 27
+ 4 61
(c) m cm
4 48
+ 2 37
(d) m cm
6 68
+ 1 52
(e) m cm
2 89
+ 4 45
(f) m cm
5 67
– 2 36
(g) m cm
7 48
– 3 39
(h) m cm
5 28
– 2 38
(i) m cm
9 41
– 5 89
(j) m cm
4 61
– 2 75
(k) 3m 27cm + 1m 35cm = ________
(l) 2m 49cm + 5m 3cm = ________
(m) 5m 46cm – 2m 87cm = ________
(n) 7m 31cm – 6m 5cm = ________
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________ cm
________ cm
________ cm
________ cm
________ cm
Rough work!
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125Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1.
(a) Find a route that is exactly 14cm long. Draw your route on the grid. Remember you cannot
go back over your path.
(b) Find a route on the grid that is exactly 20cm long.
(c) How long is the shortest route from start to finish? ________
(d) How long is the longest route you can find from start to finish? ________
(e) Can you complete a distance that is an odd number? ________
2. Find the perimeter of these shapes. To find the perimeter you need to add all sides.
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Start
Finish
Allie the ant wants to get from the start to the finish.
To do so she must travel through the grid of squares.
Each square is 1cm in length. She can travel along
the edges of the boxes but she cannot go back over a
path or go diagonally.
Perimeter = ______________
Perimeter = _____________
Perimeter = _____________
Perimeter = _____________
Perimeter = _____________
Perimeter = _____________
8m
8m
4m 4m
4m
2m
7cm
3cm
3cm10cm
7cm4cm
4cm
7cm
9mm
9mm
9mm9mm
5cm
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126 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Find the answers to these multiplications sums.
(a) 5 x 8 = ___________
(d) 5 x 5 = ___________
(g) 3 x 5 = ___________
(j) 7 x 5 = ___________
(m) 10 x 10 = ___________
(p) 8 x 10 = ___________
(s) 0 x 5 = ___________
(b) 3 x 10 = ___________
(e) 10 x 2 = ___________
(h) 4 x 4 = ___________
(k) 9 x 4 = ___________
(n) 8 x 8 = ___________
(q) 4 x 8 = ___________
(t) 7 x 2 = ___________
(c) 6 x 4 = ___________
(f) 5 x 10 = ___________
(i) 6 x 8 = ___________
(l) 3 x 2 = ___________
(o) 7 x 4 = ___________
(r) 1 x 8 = ___________
2. Colour in all the multiples of 6.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
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127Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
(a) There are 2 children in each of four cars going to a football match. If each child is to get 3 drinks how many drinks will they need altogether? _______________
(b) Each day 10 good report cards are handed out in Scoil Thomás. How many good report
cards are handed out altogether in one week? _______________
(c) There are 4 dogs, 3 cats and 10 hens on Marsh Farm, how many legs are there altogether? _______________
(d) There are 4 more boys in 3rd class than girls. If there are 30 children in the class how many boys are there? _______________
(e) There are 30 children in 3rd class. If each child is to get 2 lollipops at the end of the year how many will they need altogether? How many will the boys get? How many will the girls get? ______________, ______________, _______________
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Across
4. Ten times eight
6. Six times two
7. Three times five
8. Three times ten
9. Seven times four
11. Four times five
12. Two times five
13. Seven times two
14. ___ times eight = sixty-four
Down
1. Six times ten
2. Two times eight
3. Seven times ten
5. Nine times two
8. Eight times four
10. Five times two
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128 Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Complete the following.
6 x 4 = 24 therefore 24 ÷ 4 = 6
(a) 3 x 2 = ___ ___ ÷ 2 = 3 (b) 5 x 8 = ___ ___ ÷ 8 = 5
(c) 4 x 10 = ___ ___ ÷ 10 = 4 (d) 8 x 2 = ___ ___ ÷ 2 = 8
(e) 4 x 4 = ___ ___ ÷ 4 = 4 (f) 7 x 8 = ___ ___ ÷ 8 = 7
(g) 9 x 5 = ___ ___ ÷ 5 = 9 (h) 8 x 4 = ___ ___ ÷ 4 = 8
2. (a) How many groups of 4 can be made from 12? ___________
(b) How many groups of 8 can be made from 40? ___________
(c) How many groups of 5 can be made from 20? ___________
(d) How many groups of 2 can be made from 18? ___________
(e) How many groups of 10 can be made from 50? ___________
(f) How many groups of 4 can be made from 28? ___________
3. (a) There are 30 pupils in the class. If there are 5 tables, how many children will sit at each
table? ___________________
(b) Paul has 56 football cards, he shares them equally among himself and his 7 friends. How
many will they each get? ___________________
(c) 2 children fit on each seat on a bus. How many seats will they use if there are 4 children?
___________________
(d) In Paul’s furniture shop he is building chairs. He has made 28 chair legs. How many chairs
can he make using all the legs? ___________________
(e) 8 books fit on each shelf in the library. How many shelves can be filled if there are 72 books?
___________________
(f) To play a game of dodge ball each group will need 10 cones. If there are 80 cones how many
groups can play? ___________________
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129Planet Maths Teacher Resources • 3rd Class
1. Calculate the missing number.
(a) _____ ÷ 5 = 7 (b) _____ ÷ 8 = 10
(c) _____ ÷ 8 = 6 (d) _____ ÷ 4 = 9
(e) _____ ÷ 2 = 9 (f) _____ ÷ 8 = 7
(g) _____ ÷ 10 = 4 (h) _____ ÷ 10 = 2
(i) _____ ÷ 4 = 8 (j) _____ ÷ 5 = 3
(k) _____ ÷ 8 = 3 (l) _____ ÷ 5 = 10
(m) _____ ÷ 2 = 5 (n) _____ ÷ 2 = 1
(o) _____ ÷ 10 = 8 (p) _____ ÷ 5 = 6
(q) _____ ÷ 5 = 9 (r) _____ ÷ 10 = 7
2. Word problems
(a) Wendy has 32 marbles. She puts the same number of marbles in each of her four bags.
How many marbles are in each bag? ___________________
(b) If it takes 8 people to fill a train carriage, how many carriages can be filled with 72 people?
___________________
(c) In Lorri’s back garden she has a barrel that collects rain water. If Lorri’s watering can holds 5
litres and she fills it 10 times with all the water in the barrel how many litres of water were in
the barrel? ___________________
(d) There are 27 children going to a football match, how many cars will be needed if 4 children
fit in each car? ___________________
(e) Amanda has 38 books, she put all of them on her new bookshelf. How many shelves did
she use if 8 books fit on each shelf? ___________________
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1. Put these words in the correct place on top of the probability line.
Certain Impossible Likely Unlikely 50:50
Can you add any other words to the probability line?
2. What are the chances?
(a) In a bag there are some balls. Juan pulls out one ball and it is red. He puts it back and pulls
out another one. This time the ball is black. He puts it back. After ten goes he has drawn out
three red and seven black.
Do you think there are more red or black balls? _______________
Why? _______________
(b) Joseph always complains that it rains on his birthday. In what month might his birthday be?
_______________
(c) Seth asked his dad a question and he answered, “It is more likely than unlikely.” What might
the question be? _______________
(d) A team were playing cricket and one of the batsman threw his bat and stormed off saying,
“It’s not fair!” What might have happened? _______________
(e) Sarah-Jane closed her eyes and picked a ball out of a bag. What colour do you think she
picked if there were 2 yellow balls, 5 blue balls and 1 green ball in the bag? _______________
3. On a pair of dice what are the chances of scoring the following?
1 = _______________
6 = _______________
12 = _______________
13 = _______________
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1. (a) Circle 12 of these ladybirds (b) Circle 1
4 of these sweets
(c) Colour 110 of these balloons (d) Colour 1
8 of these cars
(e) Colour 14 of these pencils. (f) Colour 1
2 of these books
(g) Colour 110 of these children (h) Colour 1
8 of these elephants
2. Fill in the circles, use the example to help you.
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14 1620
36
24
6
40
32
8
12
18 7248
24
4032
56
8
16
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1. Complete the fraction problems, then use the grid to show you what colour it should be.
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(a) 12 of 20 green
(b) 14 of 12 light blue
(c) 18 of 72 blue
(d) 110 of 80 purple
(e) 110 of 50 white
(f) 12 of 14 green
(g) 14 of 8 yellow
(h) 110 of 40 brown
(i) 110 of 60 orange
(j) 68 of 16 pink
(k) 510 of 30 blue
3
3
10
12
12
12
12
9
9
9
9
88
8
5 5
6
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2
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4 44
44
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1. Fill in each square so that numbers vertically and horizontally multiply to get the answer
written below or on the right-hand side.
For example: (a) (b)
(c) (d) (e)
(f) (g) (h)
(i) (j) (k)
2. Multiplication word problems.
(a) There are 31 days in 7 months of the year. How many days is that altogether? Can you name
the months? _______, _______, _______, _______, _______, _______, _______
(b) Each day Newbury Farm has visits from 6 schools. If there are 28 children in each group, how
many children visit each day. How many children visit each week? _______, _______
(c) I belong to the 2, 3 and 4 times tables. The sum of my two digits is 9. What number am I?
_______
(d) I am a two-digit number. I am a multiple of 5 and 3. The difference between my digits is 1.
What number am I? _______
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5 6 30
3 8 24
15 48
6
49
14 21
12
30
18 20
24
36
16 54
40
64
40 64
42
72
54 56
9
35
21 15
48
18
36 24
27
32
36 24
56
9
7 72
63
2
18 7
7
6
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1. Which is heavier?
2. Here is a list of ingredients needed to make a chocolate cake.
14 kg flour
275g caster sugar
25g cocoa
125g plain chocolate
1 orange
3 eggs
240m¬ sunflower oil
3. (a) kg g
3 250
+ 2 67
(b) kg g
4 275
+ 3 145
(c) kg g
6 674
+ 3 527
(d) kg g
6 470
– 3 268
(e) kg g
5 267
– 3 674
(f) kg g
7 670
– 2 88
The _________ is heavier
than the ____________ .
The _________ is lighter
than the ____________ .
The _________ is heavier
than the ____________ .
The _________ is lighter
than the ____________ .
The _________ is heavier
than the ____________ .
The _________ is lighter
than the ____________ .
(a) What is the weight of the first 3 ingredients? ___________
(b) If each egg weighs 50g, how much do all three eggs
weigh? ___________
(c) How many grams of flour is needed? ___________
(d) Estimate the total weight of all the ingredients? ________
(e) If there was 2kg of flour before the cake was made, how
much flour is left? ___________
Coal Flour Cereal
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40kg 32kg6kg 28kg5kg 17kg
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1. How heavy is each of the following items? Answer in grams.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e) (f)
(g) (h)
2. What weight is needed to balance each of these?
(a) (b)
0 1020
30
40
50
60708090
100
110
120
130140
150 0 2040
60
80
100
120140160180
200
220
240
260280
300
0 50100
150
200
250
300350400450
500
550
600
650700
750
0 50100
150
200
250
300350400450
500
550
600
650700
750 0 2040
60
80
100
120140160180
200
220
240
260280
300
0 2040
60
80
100
120140160180
200
220
240
260280
300
0 020 10040 200
60 300
80 400
100 500
120 600140 700160 800180 900
200 1000
220 1100
240 1200
260 1300
280 1400300 1500
____________
____________
____________
____________
____________
____________
____________
____________
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1. Investigating tessellation
Colour the different patterns you see and compare yours with your partner.
2. Now try some of your own tessellation art. Think of the shapes you could use.
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Pattern Next Step?
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1. Draw the line(s) of symmetry on these shapes.
2. Circle the houses that are symmetrical.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(e) (f) (g) (h)
(i) (j) (k) (l)
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1. Using a pencil draw your own symmetrical pictures.
Draw a line of symmetry with a red pencil.
Alien Famous Building
Robot Snowman
2. Colour in this pattern to make it symmetrical.
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1. Find the area of these shapes.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(e) (f)
(a) ____________________ (b) ____________________ (c) ____________________
(d) ____________________ (e) ____________________ (f) ____________________
2. Find the area of these shapes.
(b)
(a) (c)
(d)
(e) (f)
(a) ____________________ (b) ____________________ (c) ____________________
(d) ____________________ (e) ____________________ (f) ____________________
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1. Estimate the area of each of the following if = 1 square
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e) (f)
(h) (h) (i)
2. Now try these. Estimate the area of these irregular shapes.
(a) (b) (c)
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
___________ squares
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1. (a) 54 ÷ 3 = _____ (b) 98 ÷ 7 = _____ (c) 96 ÷ 6 = _____ (d) 76 ÷ 4 = _____
(e) 85 ÷ 2 = _____ (f) 91 ÷ 5 = _____ (g) 74 ÷ 6 = _____ (h) 87 ÷ 7 = _____
(i) _____ ÷ 2 = 19 (j) _____ ÷ 3 = 28 (k) 40 ÷ _____ =8
(l) 89 ÷ _____ = 11 r 1 (m) 99 ÷ _____ = 16 r 3
2. Word problems
(a) Sarah has 56 pencils. She shares them between her 9 friends. How many pencils
will each of her friends get? How many pencils will Sarah have left over? ________, ________
(b) Ali has €1.50. He wants to buy rubbers for everyone coming to his party. Each rubber cost
40c. How many rubbers will he be able to buy? How much money will have left?
________, ________
(c) Coco the clown has 60 balloons which he needs to share between 28 children
at the fair. How many balloons does each child get? Will he have any left?
________, ________
(d) Sara has 49 packets of crisps. She must share these equally between her 4 friends. How many
crisp packets will each friend get? How many will Sarah have left for herself?
(e) I have 73 photographs. I frame all of them. Each frame holds 6 photographs. How many
frames have I used altogether? ________
(f) There are 87 books to go into the class library. If 7 books fit on each shelf
how many of the 20 shelves will be needed to hold the books? ________
(g) Jasmin buys 94 ice lollies for her party. If each carrier bag holds 8 ice lollies how many bags
will she need? ________
(h) There are 59 children in third class. The children need to split equally into 2 classes. How
many children will there be in each class? What will be the principal’s problem? ________,
________, ________
(i) Samira spends 4 days of her holidays stuck at home because of rain.
She has nothing to do but watch cars passing by all day long. She
counts 103 cars in 5 days! Roughly how many cars does she count
each day? Why do we say roughly? ________, _____________________________________
(j) I read 83 pages of my book over 4 days. Roughly how many pages do I read a day? ________
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1. Which net won’t make the 3D shape shown?
(a) (b) (a) (b)
(c) (d) (c) (d)
(a) (b) (a) (b)
(c) (d) (c) (d)
2. True or false?
(a) Each face of a cube is square in shape. __________
(b) Cylinders have 4 edges. __________
(c) A sphere has 1 edge. __________
(d) A cone has no vertices. __________
(e) A 4-sided pyramid has 8 edges. __________
(f) Cuboids have 8 edges and 4 faces. __________
(g) A triangular prism has 10 edges. __________
(h) A hemisphere has 3 edges. __________
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1. Draw a line to match the containers to the amount you think they hold.
Milk carton 3 litres
Watering can 5m¬
Can of paint 112 litres
small bottle of water 1 litre
egg cup 250m¬
Jug of water 5 litres
teaspoon 50m¬
2. Colour the correct amount of liquid on each measuring jug.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3. (a) ¬ m¬
3 240
+ 1 224
(b) ¬ m¬
6 147
+ 2 342
(c) ¬ m¬
5 289
+ 2 232
(d) ¬ m¬
7 67
+ 3 740
4. (a) ¬ m¬
4 570
– 2 350
(b) ¬ m¬
6 360
– 4 272
(c) ¬ m¬
5 600
– 3 450
(d) ¬ m¬
3 27
– 1 321
300m¬ 700m¬ 250m¬ 1,000m¬
100m¬200m¬300m¬400m¬500m¬600m¬700m¬800m¬900m¬1 litre
100m¬200m¬300m¬400m¬500m¬600m¬700m¬800m¬900m¬1 litre
100m¬200m¬300m¬400m¬500m¬600m¬700m¬800m¬900m¬1 litre
100m¬200m¬300m¬400m¬500m¬600m¬700m¬800m¬900m¬1 litre
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1. (a) How much liquid is in beaker A ? ____________
(b) Which beaker contains the most liquid? Explain. _____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(c) If all the liquid in beaker A was used to fill 5 identical glasses to the top, what is the capacity
of each of the glasses? ____________
(d) What is the difference between each of the two beakers? ______________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(e) Draw a line on beaker B to show 900m¬.
(f) If half of the liquid in beaker B is used to fill five smaller glasses, what is the capacity of each
of the glasses? ____________
(g) How much liquid would be left in the jug?
______________________________________________________________________________
2. Cocktails can be made by mixing all sorts of juices and fizzy drinks
Here is the recipe for a cocktail called a Scorpion.
It’s up to you how much a ‘part’ is when mixing your cocktail.
Using the recipe, try to answer the following questions.
(a) If 1 part of white grape juice is 25m¬, how much would be in 2 parts? ______
(b) If 1 part of raspberry syrup is 40m¬, how much would be in 3 parts? ______
(c) If 1 part of orange juice is 100m¬, how much would be in 2.5 parts? ______
(d) If 1 part lemon juice is 30m¬, how much would be in 4 parts? ______
(e) If 2 parts white grape juice is 80m¬, how much would be in 3.5 parts? ______
(f) How much cocktail would you make altogether if one part was 500m¬? ______
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2 parts white grape juice1 part raspberry syrup1 part lemon juice1 part orange juice1 orange slice1 cherry
1 litre 1 litre
900m¬800m¬ 800m¬700m¬600m¬
600m¬500m¬400m¬
400m¬300m¬200m¬
200m¬100m¬
(A) (B)
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1. How many minutes from:
(a) 2:20 to 2:30 _________ (b) 5:00 to 5: 30 _________
(c) 4:15 to 4: 30 _________ (d) 9: 45 to 9:55 _________
(e) 7: 25 to 7: 40 _________ (f) 8:50 to 9:00 _________
(g) 1:45 to 2:05 _________ (h) 12:35 to 1:10 _________
am 12:00 midnight to 12:00 midday pm 12:00 midday to 12:00 midnight
2. Write am or pm beside each sentence to show when it took place.
(a) At 8 o’clock I eat my breakfast. _________
(b) 5 o’clock in the morning. _________
(c) An hour after midday. _________
(d) At 6 o’clock I eat my dinner. _________
(e) At 3 o’clock I go home from school. _________
(f) At 9 o’clock I go to bed. _________
3. Change these to minutes.
(a) 1 hr 30 minutes _________ minutes
(b) 1 hr 15 minutes _________ minutes
(c) 2 hours _________ minutes
(d) 2 hr 26 minutes _________ minutes
5.
4. Change these to hours and minutes.
(a) 70 minutes ____ hrs _______ minutes
(b) 85 minutes ____ hrs _______ minutes
(c) 112 minutes ____ hrs _______ minutes
(d) 120 minutes ____ hrs _______ minutes
Toon Time 3:10
Kidz Zone 3:40
Sports Live 4:05
Muzic 5:00
Nature’s Way 5:30
(a) How long is Kidz Zone on for? ________________
(b) Which programme is the shortest? ________________
(c) Which programme is the longest? ________________
(d) If Emily’s dad wants to watch the sport, how long after Kidz
Zone will she have to wait to watch Muzic? ________________
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Story maths
Lydia got up at 7:40, she got dressed, brushed her hair and was down
stairs for breakfast by 8:05. After breakfast she went upstairs again to
brush her teeth. She left the house at 8:25 and walked to school. She
arrived at 8:50, ten minutes early! Each of Lydia’s first lessons were 40
minutes long. She had English, Maths and Religion. By 11:15 break
was over and it was time for Art, her favourite subject. Art lasted an
hour and then it was library time. She got a new book and read the
first 27 pages during lunch-time. The bell rang for home time at 2:40.
She walked home with her friends, Holly and Fiona, stopping for ten
minutes to have a chat with some children from the other school.
When she arrived home she had a quick snack and began her home
work by 3:40. She was finished by 14 past 4. She then watched TV for
50 minutes before having her dinner.
(a) How long did it take Lydia to get ready for school? _____________
(b) How long did it take her to walk to school? _____________
(c) What time does school start? _____________
(d) How long did her first 3 lessons last altogether? _____________
(e) What time was break at? _____________
(f) How long is her break? _____________
(g) If it takes Lydia about 1 minute to read a page of her book how long was she reading?
_____________
(h) At what time did Lydia get home from school? _____________
(i) How long did it take her to do her homework? _____________
(j) At what time did Lydia eat her dinner? _____________
(k) Approximately how long do you think Lydia spends doing her homework each week if she
has no homework on Fridays? _____________