Year 3 The 3 Times Table Maths Challenge

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 3 The 3 Times Table Maths Challenge is designed to check pupils’ understanding of the 3 times table within a problem solving context. Pupils will match the calculations to the correct answers. Then apply their knowledge of the 3 times table to different numbers.

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National Curriculum Objectives

Multiplication and Division

Mathematics Year 3: (3C6) Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables

Mathematics Year 3: (3C7) Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods

Mathematics Year 3: (3C8) Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects