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Year 3 Operation Cards

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Year 3 Operation Cards

Work through each card. Write your answer and show your thinking when asked. You can use counters or a number line to help.

Addition and subtraction

1.Calculate 38 + 25.

2.Work out 76 − 32. Show your working.

3.Talia has 61 beads. She gives 24 beads to a friend. How many beads does Talia have now?

4.Find 47 + 36. Explain one way you could work it out.

5.What is 92 − 57?

6.Harrison finds 28 shells at the beach, then finds 39 more. How many shells does he find altogether?

7.Calculate 56 + 29.

8.Work out 81 − 36. Write or draw a strategy you used.

Counting patterns

9.Continue the pattern by counting in 2s: 31, 33, 35, , , .

10.Count backwards in 5s: 90, 85, 80, , , .

11.Each number is 10 more than the one before it. What number comes after 28, 38, 48, 58?

12.Count forwards in 10s from 53 to fill the gaps: 53, , , .

13.Fill in the missing numbers in this counting pattern: 4, 8, , 16, , 24.

14.Look at the pattern 95, 85, 75, 65, ____. What is the rule, and what number comes next?

15.Count backwards in 2s to complete the sequence: 44, 42, 40, , , .

16.What number is 10 more than 76?

Place value and number order

17.Write 372 as hundreds, tens and ones.

18.What number is made from 4 hundreds, 2 tens and 9 ones?

19.Round 74 to the nearest ten. Use the number line to help.

20.Which number is greater, 236 or 263? Explain how you know.

21.What number is 10 less than 314?

22.Show 153 as hundreds, tens and ones, then write it as an addition sentence.

23.Put these numbers in order from smallest to largest: 92, 29, 82, 28.

24.What whole number comes between 187 and 189?

Number stories and challenge

25.A community hall has 76 chairs. It gets 28 more chairs. How many chairs are there now?

26.Nikau puts aside $12 each week. How much does she save in 3 weeks?

27.A packet has 87 crayons. If 29 crayons are used, how many are left?

28.Kauri counts toy cars in groups of 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. How many toy cars has he counted?

29.There are 68 children at a picnic. If 26 bring lunch from home, how many do not bring lunch from home?

30.Find two different pairs of whole numbers that each add to 60. Write an addition sentence for each pair and explain how you know both totals are 60.