Medium Term Planning
Week / Autumn 1 / Resources / Activities / Counting activities
Week 1 / Mental Focus: x tables assessment
Main Focus: Number - Place Value
- recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number
- read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words
Number lines, 100 squares
Place value board / 1-2 Game /
- count in 10s from any number including from 0
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
Week 2 / Mental Focus: x tables assessment
Main Focus: Number - Place Value
- compare and order numbers up to 1000
- find 10/100 more or less than given number
- recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number
Place value board
Number lines, 100 squares
10s frames / 1-2 Game /
- count in 10s from any number including from 0
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
- count in time steps of half and quarter of an hour
Week 3 / Mental Focus: find 10/100 more/less than a given number; compare and order numbers to 1000; read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; number bonds to 10
Main Focus: Number - Addition and Subtraction – Mental
- + and – mentally: HTU and 1s; HTU and tens; HTU and hundreds
Place value board
Number lines, 100 squares
10s frames / 1-2 Game
Addition Chains
Can you find the quick way? /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
- count from 0 in halves
Week 4 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; +/- HTU and 1s/10s; number bonds to 10
Main Focus: Number - Addition and Subtraction – Written
- + and - with up to HTU using formal methods of columnar addition subtraction
number line /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count from 0 in multiples of 4
- count in time steps of quarter of an hour
Week 5 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; +/- HTU and 1s/10s; number bonds to 10
Main Focus: Number - Multiplication and Division - Mental
- recall and use x and / facts for the 2, 3, 4,5, 10 multiplication tables
- write and calculate mathematical statements for x and / using x tables that they know including TU x U digit numbers using mental (and progressing to formal written) methods
arrays, counters
Table squares / Multiplication chains
Multiplication tables /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count from 0 in multiples of 4 and 40
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
Week 6 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; +/- HTU and 1s/10s; number bonds to 10
Main Focus: Multiplication and Division - Written
- write and calculate mathematical statements for x and / using x tables that they know including TU x U digit numbers using mental and progressing toformal written methods
counters, arrays,
Table squares / Multiplication chains /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count from 0 in multiples of 4 and 40
- count from 0 in halves, quarters
Year 3
Medium Term Planning
Week / Autumn 2 / Resources / Activities / Counting activities
Week 7 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; number bonds to 10 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Number-Place Value
- place value problems – including practical problems
- recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts
- identify, represent and estimate numbers in different representations
Place value board
Number lines, 100 squares
10s frames / Numbers Rule /
- count from 0 in multiples of 4 and 8
- count from 0 in halves, quarters
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
Week 8 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; number bonds to 10 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Number - Mental/Written Calculations
- estimate answers to calculations use inverse operations to check answers
- + and – mentally: HTU and 1s; HTU and tens; HTU and hundreds
- + and - with up to HTU using formal methods of columnar +-
Place value board
Number lines, 100 squares
10s frames / Starting from
Can you find the quick way? /
- count from 0 in multiples of 8 and 80
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
- count in tenths and link to 0.1
- count in time steps of quarter of an hour
Week 9 / Mental Focus: find 10/100 more/less than a given number; recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number; + and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s; number bonds to 10 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Number- Problem Solving
- solve problems including missing number problems, using number facts, place value and more complex + and -
place value board;
number lines; 100 squares;
10s frames;
Bar model method exemplar / Multiplication chains
Can you find the quick way? /
- count from 0 in multiples of 8 and 80
- count in tenths and link to 0.1
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
Week 10 / Mental Focus: write mathematical statements using known x tables; read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; number bonds to 10 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Number - Problem Solving
- solve problems including missing number problems, involving x and / including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects
place value board;
number lines; 100 squares;
10s frames;
Bar model method exemplar; table squares /
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 40 and 80
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
- count in tenths and link to 0.1
- count in time steps of quarter of an hour
Week 11 / Mental Focus: + and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s; compare and order numbers to 1000; recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number; number bonds to 10 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Number - Fractions
(unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators)
- recognise writefractions of a discrete set of objects
- recognise show, using diagrams, equiv fractions with small denominators
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 40 and 80
- count in tenths and link to 0.1
- count from 0 in halves, quarters
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
Week 12 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; number bonds to 10 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Number - Fractions
- compare and order unit fractions and fractions with the same denominator
- add and subtract fractions with small denominators within one whole
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 40 and 80
- count from 0 in steps of 2,3,5
- count in time steps of quarter of an hour
- count from 0 in halves, quarters, tenths
Year 3
Medium Term Planning
Week / Spring 1 / Resources / Activities / Counting activities
Week 13 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; number bonds to 10/20
Main Focus: Measure - Time
- tell and write the time from an analogue clock including Roman numerals from i to xii and 12 hr and 24 hr clocks
- use vocab such as o’clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon noon and midnight
- know number of secs in minno.s of days in each month, year, leap year
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
Week 14 / Mental Focus: write mathematical statements using known x tables; recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number; double and halve within 20; number bonds10/20
Main Focus: Number - Fractions
- recognise show, using diagrams, equiv fractions with small denominators
- compare and order unit fractions and fractions with the same denominator
- find fractions of a discrete set of objects
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- count in 0.1s
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
Week 15 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; number bonds to 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Measure/Place Value
- identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
- compare, + and - lengths (m,cm/mm); mass (kg, g) volume/capacity (l,ml)
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in 0.1s
Week 16 / Mental Focus: write mathematical statements using known x tables; recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number; double and halve within 20; number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100
Main Focus: Measure/ Geometry
- measure the perimeter of simple 2d shapes
- draw 2d shapes
- recognise 3d shapes in different orientations and describe them
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
Week 17 / Mental Focus: recognise Roman Numerals to xii; recognise equivalent fractions; number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; + and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s
Main Focus: Geometry
- recognise angles as properties of shape and description of a turn
- identify right angles
- identify whether angles are greater or less than a right angle
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in 0.1s
Week 18 / Mental Focus: find 10/100 more/less than a given number; double and halve within 20number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; write mathematical statements using known x tables
Main Focus:Problem Solving – mixed operations – mentally/written
- solve probsincl missing No. probs/using No. facts/place value/more complex + –
- solve probsinvolving x and ÷ including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects
number lines; 100 squares;10s frames;
Bar method exemplar; table squares / Multiplication chains
Multiplication tables
Can you find the quick way? /
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
Year 3
Medium Term Planning
Week / Spring 2 / Resources / Activities / Counting activities
Week 19 / Mental Focus: find 10/100 more/less; double/halve within 20; bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; write mathematical statements using known x tables
Main Focus:Place Value/ Mental/Written Methods/ Problem Solving / Bundles of 10s and ones; Dienes apparatus; place value counters;
place value board;
number lines; 100 squares;10s frames;
Bar model method exemplar; table squares / Numbers Rule
Starting from
Multiplication chains
Multiplication tables
Can you find the quick way? /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number including from 0 as well as 20, 30, 50
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
Week 20 / Mental Focus: recognise Roman Numerals to xii; recognise equivalent fractions; number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; + and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s
Main Focus:Measure- Money
- +& - amounts of money to give change using both £/p in practical contexts
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in 0.1s
Week 21 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000; bonds to 10 /20 & multiples of 10 to 100; write mathematical statements using x tables
Main Focus:Measure - Time
- tell write time from analogue clock incl Roman numerals 12/24 hr clock
- estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to nearest minute
- use vocab such as o’clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon noon and midnight
- know No. of secs in a minNo. of days in each month, year, leap year
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number including from 0 as well as 20, 30, 50
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
- count in multiples of 6
Week 22 / Mental Focus: recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number; + and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s; number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; reading time
Main Focus:Statistics / Problem Solving
- interpret and present data using bar charts , pictograms and tables
- solve one step and two step questions (egHow many more? How many fewer?) using information presented in scaled bar charts/pictograms/tables
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in 0.1s
Week 23 / Mental Focus: find 10/100 more/less than a given number; double and halve within 20number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; write mathematical statements using known x tables
Main Focus:Measure
- recognise 3d shapes in different orientations and describe them
- make 3d shapes using modelling materials
- identify horizontal vertical lines pairs of perpendicular parallel lines
- recognise 2 right angles make a half turn
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in steps of 20,30,50from any multiple of 10
- count in 5 min intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in multiples of 6
Week 24 / Mental Focus: recognise Roman Numerals to xii; use inverse to check; number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; recognise equivalent fractions
Main Focus:Number - Fractions
- recognise/show, using diagrams, equiv fractions with small denominators
- compare and order unit fractions and fractions with the same denominator
- find fractions of a discrete set of objects
- +& - fractions with small denominators within one whole
Fraction Grid /
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
Year 3
Medium Term Planning
Week / Summer 1 / Resources / Activities / Counting activities
Week 25 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; use inverse to check; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; recognise Roman Numerals to xii
Main Focus: Place Value Mental/WrittenCalculations / Bundles of 10s and ones; Dienes apparatus; place value counters;
place value board;
number lines; 100 squares;
10s frames;
Bar model method exemplar; table squares / Multiplication chains
Multiplication tables
Can you find the quick way?
What are my numbers?
Numbers Rule
Starting from /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in 20s, 30s, 50s from any multiple of 10
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
Week 26 / Mental Focus: compare and order numbers to 1000; + and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s;write mathematical statements using known x tables; double and halve within 20;
Main Focus: Fractions
- recognise write fractions of a discrete set of objects show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
- find fractions of a discrete set of objects
- add and subtract fractions with small denominators within one whole
- fraction problem solving
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 40,8, 80, 50 and 100
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in multiples of 6
Week 27 / Mental Focus: recognise place value of each digit in a 3 digit number; find 10/100 more/less than a given number; recognise Roman Numerals to xii; recognise equivalent fractions;
Main Focus:Measure
- identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations - converting
- measure the perimeter of simple 2d shapes
- measure, compare, add and subtract lengths (,/cm/mm); mass (kg, g) volume/capacity (l,ml)
- problem solving including converting
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number including from 0 as well as 20, 30, 50
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in multiples of 6
- count in 0.1
Week 28 / Mental Focus: use inverse to check; number bonds to 10 & 20 & multiples of 10 to bond to 100; write mathematical statements using known x tables; reading time
Main Focus: Measure
- problem solving involving money
number lines; bar model method exemplar; / 64_ Flash Harry /
- count in 10s and 100s from any number including from 0
- count in halves, quarters and tenths
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 40,8, 80, 50 and 100
- count in tenths and link to 0.1s
- count in multiples of 6
Week 29 / Mental Focus: read and write in words/numerals No.s to 1000; compare and order numbers to 1000;
+ and – mentally HTU & 1s/10s/100s; recognise Roman Numerals to xii; recognise equivalent fractions;
Main Focus:Measure- Time
- tell and write the time from an analogue clock including Roman numerals from i to xii and 12 hr and 24 hr clocks
- estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to nearest minute
- compare duration of events (eg to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks)
- record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours;
- count in steps of 2,3,5 from any number including from 0 as well as 20, 30, 50
- count in 5 minute intervals including ¼ past & ¼ to
- count in steps of 9 by adjusting (+10-1)
- count in multiples of 6