Year 3 daily maths review
A free Year 3 maths warm-up for every school day of the term: 6 mixed questions each morning, Monday to Friday, for 10 weeks. Each question practises a Year 3 content description from the Australian Curriculum (v9), and its AC9 code is printed beside it. Recent skills come up most often and earlier ones are threaded back in, so nothing drops out of memory before the end-of-year check. Every answer is computed in code, so the key is never wrong.
Monday
A quick mix of 6 questions to warm up. Answer each one in the space provided.
- 1.An activity starts at 3:30 and lasts 1h 15m. What time does it end?Elapsed TimeAC9M3M03
- 2.A bag has 8 counters. 3 are yellow. Picking a yellow counter is (impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, certain):ProbabilityAC9M3P01
- 3.74 + 76 =AdditionAC9M3N03
- 4.79 - 24 =SubtractionAC9M3N03
- 5.What comes next? ▲ ◆ ▲ ◆ ▲ ◆ ▲ ___PatternsAC9M3N07
- 6.9 ÷ 1 =DivisionAC9M3N04
Tuesday
A quick mix of 6 questions to warm up. Answer each one in the space provided.
- 1.An activity starts at 9:00 and lasts 3h 0m. What time does it end?Elapsed TimeAC9M3M03
- 2.What comes next? 12, 10, 8, 6, ___PatternsAC9M3N07
- 3.28 ÷ 7 =DivisionAC9M3N04
- 4.Write the fact family for 4, 3 and 12:Fact FamiliesAC9M3A03
- 5.A bag has 6 counters. 3 are red. Picking a red counter is (impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, certain):ProbabilityAC9M3P01
- 6.33 - 8 =SubtractionAC9M3N03
Wednesday
A quick mix of 6 questions to warm up. Answer each one in the space provided.
- 1.Write the fact family for 9, 8 and 72:Fact FamiliesAC9M3A03
- 2.What comes next? 12, 17, 22, 27, ___PatternsAC9M3N07
- 3.An activity starts at 5:00 and lasts 2h 15m. What time does it end?Elapsed TimeAC9M3M03
- 4.A bag has 5 counters. 4 are blue. Picking a blue counter is (impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, certain):ProbabilityAC9M3P01
- 5.Sam had 75 pencils and gave away 19. How many pencils are left?Word ProblemsAC9M3N06
- 6.75 - 63 =SubtractionAC9M3N03
Thursday
A quick mix of 6 questions to warm up. Answer each one in the space provided.
- 1.64 + 60 =AdditionAC9M3N03
- 2.6 × 8 =MultiplicationAC9M3N04
- 3.Ivy has 54 pencils. Max gives Ivy 5 more. How many pencils does Ivy have now?Word ProblemsAC9M3N06
- 4.A bag has 5 counters. 3 are blue. Picking a blue counter is (impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, certain):ProbabilityAC9M3P01
- 5.An activity starts at 5:30 and lasts 2h 0m. What time does it end?Elapsed TimeAC9M3M03
- 6.What is the value of the digit 2 in 55290?Place ValueAC9M3N01
Friday
A quick mix of 6 questions to warm up. Answer each one in the space provided.
- 1.Mia had 64 shells and gave away 30. How many shells are left?Word ProblemsAC9M3N06
- 2.60 ÷ 6 =DivisionAC9M3N04
- 3.What comes next? 20, 23, 26, 29, ___PatternsAC9M3N07
- 4.Round 605 to the nearest 100:RoundingAC9M3N05
- 5.A bag has 4 counters. 3 are orange. Picking an orange counter is (impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, certain):ProbabilityAC9M3P01
- 6.7 - 5 =SubtractionAC9M3N03
What the Year 3 mix covers
Six questions a day across place value, three-digit adding and subtracting, multiplication and division, rounding to estimate, fact families, story problems, elapsed time and chance language.
| Code | Strand | What it asks for | Practised by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AC9M3N01 | Number | Order numbers beyond 10000. Recognise, represent and order natural numbers beyond ten thousand using standard naming and writing conventions. | Comparing Numbers, Place Value |
| AC9M3N03 | Number | Add and subtract to three digits. Add and subtract two- and three-digit numbers by using place value to partition, rearrange and regroup. | Addition, Subtraction |
| AC9M3N04 | Number | Multiply and divide one and two digits. Multiply and divide one- and two-digit numbers, showing problems with number sentences, diagrams and arrays and using a range of strategies. | Multiplication, Division |
| AC9M3N05 | Number | Estimate and check. Estimate quantities and use estimation when solving problems to judge whether an answer is reasonable. | Rounding |
| AC9M3N06 | Number | Model practical problems. Use mathematical modelling for everyday adding and multiplying problems, including money, by writing number sentences, choosing strategies and explaining the answer in context. | Word Problems |
| AC9M3N07 | Number | Number algorithms. Follow and create step-by-step algorithms with decisions to investigate numbers, then describe any patterns that appear. | Patterns |
| AC9M3A01 | Algebra | Addition and subtraction as inverses. Explain how addition and subtraction undo each other, and use this to partition numbers and find unknown values in number sentences. | Number Bonds |
| AC9M3A03 | Algebra | Facts for 3, 4, 5 and 10. Build fluency with multiplication facts for 3, 4, 5 and 10 and use them to work out the related division facts. | Fact Families |
| AC9M3M03 | Measurement | Units of time and duration. Use how days, hours, minutes and seconds relate to estimate and compare how long events take. | Elapsed Time |
| AC9M3P01 | Probability | Likely, unlikely, certain, impossible. Identify everyday events that involve chance and describe outcomes as likely or unlikely, and some as certain or impossible, explaining why. | Probability |
Left out on purpose
A warm-up only works if every question can be answered from the words on the page. These are the Year 3 topics we keep out of the daily mix, and why:
- Fractions are left out of the Year 3 mix: the generator compares fractions with unlike denominators (such as 6/7 and 3/8), which the Australian Curriculum places in Year 5. Use the Year 3 fraction worksheets for unit fractions instead.
- Decimals start in Year 4, so they are not in the Year 3 mix.
- Money, shape, angles and data displays need a picture or a table, so use the matching Year 3 worksheets for those.
Strands with no text-only question in this mix: Space (try Year 3 geometry, Year 3 position & maps); Statistics.
How to run it in 8 to 12 minutes
- Print the five daily pages for the week (the answer key stays off unless you tick it), or project one day on the board as a do-now while the roll is marked.
- Students answer on their own, without help. A warm-up is retrieval practice: the effort of remembering is what makes the skill stick.
- Mark together straight away. Ask one student to explain each answer and write the method on the board.
- Note the question most students missed. That topic, and its AC9 code, is your reteach target for the week, and the matching Year 3 worksheets are one click away on the Year 3 hub.
More Year 3 maths
- Year 3 end-of-year maths test with a computed marking key.
- Early finisher activities for Years 3 and 4 for students who finish the warm-up first.
- Grade 3 morning work (the US-framed version, with a wider topic pool).
- Daily maths review for every year, Foundation to Year 6.
Frequently asked questions
What is in the Year 3 daily maths review?
6 short, mixed questions for each school day, Monday to Friday, for 10 weeks. Every question comes from a topic mapped to a Year 3 Australian Curriculum (AC9) content description, and the code is printed beside it so you can see what each question checks.
Are the answers correct?
Yes. Each question is made by a procedural generator that computes its own answer in code. No language model writes the maths, so the answer key cannot contain a guessed or mistyped answer.
How long should a daily review take?
Plan for 8 to 12 minutes including marking. Students answer on their own first, then you go through the answers together, which is when most of the learning happens. If most of the class gets a question wrong, that topic is your reteach for the week.
Is it the same as the US morning work pages?
No. It uses the same spiral method, but the Year 3 version only draws on topics that match the Year 3 AC9 content descriptions, uses Year labels and metric units, and is seeded separately, so the questions differ.
Can I print a whole term at once?
Each week prints as five daily pages plus an optional answer key. Step through Week 1 to Week 10; every week is fixed, so a class set always matches the key.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions (c) ACARA, used under CC BY 4.0. Descriptions are paraphrased. See australiancurriculum.edu.au.