Grade 3Mathematics

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 3 Mathematics curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1NumbersWhere the year lives: numbers to 10,000, the four operations in writing, and fractions that have to be compared.7 topics·202 questions

  • Number Activities

    4 skills

    Grouping, place value and number patterns, making the structure of a number visible before it is written.

  • Whole Numbers

    7 skills

    Reading, writing, ordering and rounding numbers up to 10,000.

  • Addition

    6 skills

    Adding up to four digits with regrouping, and estimating the answer first.

  • Subtraction

    6 skills

    Taking away up to four digits with regrouping, and checking by adding back.

  • Multiplication

    4 skills

    Multiplying by a single digit, by 10 and by 100, and the patterns that make it quick.

  • Division

    4 skills

    Dividing by a single digit with and without a remainder, and seeing it undo multiplication.

  • Fractions

    3 skills

    Comparing and ordering fractions, finding equivalent ones, and adding those that share a denominator.

2MeasurementThe same five measures, now added and subtracted rather than only compared.5 topics·80 questions

  • Length

    5 skills

    The metre and centimetre, measuring accurately, and adding and subtracting lengths.

  • Mass

    5 skills

    The kilogramme and gramme, reading scales, and comparing and combining masses.

  • Capacity

    5 skills

    The litre and millilitre, measuring, and working out how much is left.

  • Time

    8 skills

    Reading the clock to five minutes, the calendar, and working out how long something took.

  • Money

    8 skills

    Buying, change, profit and loss, and keeping a simple record.

3GeometryWhere things are and what shape they are.2 topics·18 questions

  • Position and Direction

    5 skills

    Describing where something is, and giving directions another person can follow.

  • Shapes

    3 skills

    Naming and describing flat shapes, their sides and corners, and sorting them by property.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 3 Mathematics curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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