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Year 3 maths, English and science practice for NSW

Follows Stage 2 of the NSW syllabus.

Learnest gives your Year 3 child fifteen to twenty minutes of maths, English and science a day, pitched at the skill they are on, and tells you that night which skill is slipping.

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A$10 a month for one child, A$5 for each extra child.

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Ten questions, marked as soon as you finish. No sign-up.

Parent guides: NAPLAN, times tables, spelling and reading comprehension.

Free practice papers, timed like the real section: OC-style thinking skills (30 questions in 30 minutes) and OC-style mathematical reasoning (35 questions in 40 minutes).

Free spelling practice: the Year 3 words, read aloud, grouped by pattern.

What your child works on in Year 3

Maths
Place value to 9999, adding and subtracting with regrouping, multiplication facts to 10 times 10 and division facts, money and change, fractions of shapes and amounts, decimals to tenths, time to the minute, perimeter and area, 2D shapes, symmetry, tables, column graphs and chance.
English
Spelling patterns such as long vowels, plurals, doubling before -ed and -ing, contractions, and their and there, synonyms and antonyms, working out a word from the sentence around it, nouns, verbs and tense, pronouns, punctuation, and reading for facts and the main idea.
Science
Living and non-living things, life cycles, the features that help an animal survive, food chains, solids, liquids and gases, heating and cooling, choosing a material for a job, light and shadow, forces, the Sun's path, the water cycle and fair tests.

Years 3 and 4 share Stage 2 of the NSW syllabus, so Learnest works from one list of Stage 2 skills. The first day in each subject is a check that finds where your child is.

Free tool: a times tables test your child can take now, with a grid of the facts to practise next.

Tests around Year 3

Sample questions

Questions from Learnest's own Stage 2 question bank. Try each one, then open the worked answer.

Or hand the device over: let your child try seven questions on the real screens, about five minutes, no sign-up.

  1. Maths: money

    Nadia buys an apple for $2.70 and a muffin for $3.00. What is the total?

    Your child types the answer.

    See the worked answer

    Answer: $5.70

    Add the dollars, then the cents: $2.70 and $3.00 make $5.70.

  2. Maths: elapsed time

    Count on 10 minutes from 4:25. What is the new time?

    1. Option A: 4:10
    2. Option B: 4:30
    3. Option C: 4:15
    4. Option D: 4:35
    See the worked answer

    Answer: D, 4:35

    Counting on 10 minutes from 4:25 reaches 4:35.

  3. English: a word from its sentence

    The game was simple, with one rule, so everyone learned it fast. What does simple mean here?

    1. Option A: easy
    2. Option B: hard
    3. Option C: long
    4. Option D: funny
    See the worked answer

    Answer: A, easy

    Everyone learned it fast because it had one rule, which tells you simple means easy.

  4. Science: heating and cooling

    A lit candle gets hot, and its wax drips down the side. What is this change called?

    1. Option A: Melting
    2. Option B: Freezing
    3. Option C: Boiling
    4. Option D: Condensing
    See the worked answer

    Answer: A, Melting

    The flame heats the solid wax and it turns runny. A solid turning into a liquid is melting.

Questions parents ask

How long does Learnest take each day in Year 3?

Fifteen to twenty minutes. Each session starts with reviews, then new work at your child's level. In Settings you can make a child's sessions shorter or longer.

What do I get each night?

An email each school night naming the skill that slipped, at 9:30 pm or a time you pick, and a weekly email with the week and a note for the tutor. Your dashboard shows each child's day, their gaps and whether a fix has held.

Does it follow the NSW syllabus for Year 3?

Yes. Learnest works from the Stage 2 maths, English and science skills of the NSW syllabus. The first day in each subject is a check that finds your child's level, and the app plans each day from their answers.

What does it cost?

A$10 a month for one child and A$5 a month for each extra child. It starts with 14 days free: you add a card on Stripe's page and pay A$0 today. Cancel online before day 14 and you pay nothing.

Who runs Learnest?

Learnest is a small Australian business run by a sole trader, ABN 82 503 370 076. Email hello@learnest.com.au with any question about it.

Fifteen to twenty minutes a day, planned for your child.

Learnest finds the level, teaches the gap and tells you that night which skill is slipping.

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Learnest is not affiliated with ACARA, NESA, the NSW Department of Education or the Australian Maths Trust. Every question on this page is Learnest's own, written for practice. None comes from a past paper.