Year 3 · Mathematics and statistics · Algebra
Number sentences and growing patterns
True/false and open number sentences to 1000 with all four operations, balancing, and growing number patterns.
Everything for this topic in one place
- 3D lesson: Number sentences and growing patterns — Use a 3D balance to check true and false number sentences and find missing numbers, then grow block patterns and find the rule.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 1 (Years 0–3), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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More Year 3 maths topics
Numbers to 1000 · Adding and subtracting to 1000 · Multiplication and division facts · Fractions · Money and change · Length, mass, capacity, perimeter and area · Time · Shapes, symmetry and maps · Bar graphs and dot plots