Year 3 · Numeracy
Year 3 NAPLAN numeracy practice
Numeracy in Year 3 is less about hard arithmetic than about reading a question carefully and knowing which idea it is asking for. A child who can count by fours may still stall when the same pattern arrives as a row of apples in a picture. The practice below is arranged the way the test is: short questions, one idea each, mixed together so that nothing is predictable.
What the section covers
- Number
- Place value, counting patterns, addition and subtraction, simple multiplication and division, fractions of a shape or a group.
- Algebra
- Continuing and describing patterns, finding the missing term, working out the rule behind a sequence.
- Measurement
- Length, mass, capacity and time — reading scales and clocks, comparing and ordering, choosing sensible units.
- Geometry
- Naming 2D shapes and 3D objects by their properties, symmetry, position and simple directions.
- Statistics and probability
- Reading picture graphs and column graphs, answering questions from a table, saying how likely something is.
Try 6 questions now
Real questions from our Year 3 papers. Choose an answer to see whether it is right and how it is worked out. Nothing to sign up for.
Question 1
How many apples will appear in the next box of Cameron's sequence?
Question 2
Which number did Melinda place in the cell labeled X ?
Question 3
What will be the number of squares in Megan’s next diagram?
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Question 4
Lisa makes up a number pattern of five numbers. The number pattern starts at 32 and counts forward by 4.
Identify Lisa's number sequence.
Question 5
How many dots will be present in John's following box?
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Question 6
Select the correct answer.
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Keep going with the full papers
Twenty-four Year 3 numeracy papers: single-topic sets of 18 questions for working on one weakness at a time, and full 36-question papers for a timed run at the whole section.
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