Find unknown values: Year 3 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 3 is for the topic of Find unknown values. Students consolidate their knowledge of number facts up to 20 and are encouraged to practise these to aid recall. They learn number facts for addition and subtraction up to 20, becoming familiar with the different combinations. Students recall and demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts for twos, and extend and apply facts to develop the related division facts using doubling and halving.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 3
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Algebra
Topics	Algebraic expressions
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M3A01 Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations, apply to partition numbers and find unknown values in number sentences
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P6) Multiplicative strategies (P4)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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