Year 3 · NAPLAN
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 questions below are arranged the way the test is: short, one idea each, mixed so that nothing is predictable.
What the section covers
- Number
- Place value, counting patterns, the four operations, fractions of a shape or a group.
- Algebra
- Continuing a pattern, finding the missing term, describing the rule behind a sequence.
- Measurement
- Length, mass, capacity and time — reading scales and clocks, comparing, choosing sensible units.
- Space and geometry
- Naming 2D shapes and 3D objects by their properties, symmetry, position and direction.
- Statistics and probability
- Reading picture graphs and column graphs, answering questions from a table, how likely something is.
Sample questions
8 real questions from our Year 3 papers, covering the different ways this section asks things. Answer the ones you can click; the rest show how they work. Nothing to sign up for.
Question 1
What is the next shape in this sequence?
Question 2
How many apples will appear in the next box of Cameron's sequence?
Question 3
Which two elements are absent from this pattern?
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Question 4
What is the next number in the sequence?
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Please write your answer .Question 5
Drag to the blank with the missing number in the sequence below.
57, Drag here , 45, 39, 33, 27Answer options
Drag an option to a blank, or tap the option then the blank.
Question 6
Mia sees 4 pencils on the desk.
Drag and drop the pencils into the boxes from shortest to longest.
4 remainingItems to organise
Drag each item into a category. On touch screens, tap an item and then tap a category.
Shortest0Drop items here
Short0Drop items here
Long0Drop items here
Longest0Drop items here
Question 7
Match each number to show whether it is even or odd.
Place a tick in the correct box for each number:
Item Even Number Odd Number 14 57 352 981 5500 Question 8
Match each collection of bugs to the number or word showing how many bugs are in the collection.
Drag matching image from left to right.
Items
Drag or tap an item.
Matches
Connect it to a match.
four5six8On touch screens: tap an item on the left, then tap its match on the right.
Keep going with the full papers
Twenty-four Year 3 numeracy papers, 477 questions in all: single-topic sets of 18 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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