Extension Questions | Place Value | Year 3

Deepen and develop your Year 3 pupils' understanding of place value with these extension questions.

These 20 extension questions have been designed to allow pupils to go further in their understanding of place value with a range of reasoning and problem solving questions.

This resource can be used as part of an extension activity for individual pupils or pairs or as part of a whole class discussion. Some teachers also set the extension questions as a homework activity or to provide additional challenges outside the classroom.

For those taking a maths mastery approach to teaching within a mixed ability class these extension questions are invaluable at allowing all pupils to work towards mastery of place value.

This resource was created in response to teachers wanting more interesting and complex questions for their pupils, but also knowing that these questions take a long time to create.

We’ve now done the work so you don’t have to!

Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

What to expect from these Year 3 place value extension questions:

• Identifying mistakes in base 10 representations of numbers.
• Formulating questions based on given numerical information, such as hundreds in a number.
• Evaluating the accuracy of number representations.
• Understanding the comparative value of digits in different positions within a number.
• Selecting the odd one out in a set of numbers based on place value criteria.
• Applying knowledge of place value to alter numbers by adding or subtracting counters.
• Describing methods for finding numbers greater or less than a given number by a specific amount.
• Demonstrating understanding of place value through creative problem-solving and error identification.
• Comparing numbers to determine relationships and inequalities.