Year 3 - Representing numbers to 1000

Bring place value to life with this engaging outdoor lesson, through hands-on games, problem-solving challenges, and collaborative activities, your class will deepen their understanding of more, less, and the value of each digit. This low-prep, resource-light lesson combines movement, creativity, and reasoning to make place value memorable, active, and fun!

Lesson Plans

Recognising place value

Develop your children’s understanding of place value through creating natural transient art. Your children will have the opportunity to represent 3-digit numbers and recognise their value using natural loose parts in this unique outdoor lesson.

Learning objective:

To recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number.

Representing numbers

During this outdoor lesson children will hunt for natural items that, when combined, will create 3-digit numbers. This easy-to-resource lesson will require your children to use their knowledge of place value grids, as well as use their problem solving skills.

Learning objective:

To represent numbers to 1000 in different ways.

Representing numbers on a number line

Deepen your children’s understanding of place value through the use of number lines. Through taking this learning outdoors, children will have the opportunity to represent 3-digit numbers in a large-scale way while also developing their reasoning skills.

Learning objective:

To represent numbers to 1000 on a number line.

Finding more and less

Develop your children’s fluency of finding more or less than a 3-digit number through the use of maths games and physical activities. This outdoor lesson requires very few resources, very little preparation and will get your children using their teamwork skills.

Learning objective:

To find 10,100 more and 10,100 less than a given number.

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