Grade 3 is a step-up year: multiplication arrives, reading shifts from learning-to-read toward reading-to-learn. Here is the year as BC schools actually teach it — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
British Columbia math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Number concepts to 1000, skip-counting from any starting point, place value of 100s/10s/1s with zero as a placeholder, and comparing, ordering, and estimating quantities.
Adding and subtracting to 1000 with flexible decomposing, regrouping, and compensating, estimating sums and differences, and recalling facts to 20.
Understanding multiplication as groups of, arrays, and repeated addition, and division as sharing, grouping, and repeated subtraction, connected to skip-counting (no memorization of facts).
Worth watching: this is the year times tables form. Little and often beats cramming — they need to be automatic before Grade 4 uses them everywhere.
Fraction concepts as equal parts of a region, set, or linear model, equal partitioning and equal sharing, and connecting pictorial models to symbolic notation; any comparing of fractions must use the SAME denominator or SAME numerator only — never compare fractions that differ in BOTH numerator and denominator (e.g. 3/8 vs 4/6), and do not use equivalent fractions or common denominators.
Increasing and decreasing patterns, describing pattern rules with words and numbers, one-step addition and subtraction equations with an unknown, and even and odd numbers.
Constructing and describing 3D shapes by faces, edges, and vertices, measuring with standard units (linear, mass, capacity), the concepts of perimeter and area, and concepts of time.
One-to-one bar graphs, pictographs, charts, and tables, likelihood of simulated events, and counting mixed coins and bills to $100 with earning and payment.
There are 18 cookies shared equally among 3 friends. How many cookies does each friend get?
Biodiversity in the local environment and how living things are grouped and interact in ecosystems through populations, communities, food chains, and food webs.
Matter as anything that has mass and takes up space, and atoms as the building blocks of all matter.
Sources of thermal energy and how thermal energy transfers between objects by conduction, convection, and radiation.
Major local landforms and the observable changes caused by erosion and deposition by wind, water, and ice.
What do plants need to make their own food?
The cultural characteristics and ways of life of local First Peoples and global indigenous peoples — worldview, celebrations, ceremonies, dance, music, art, values, kinship, and traditional teachings.
Aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures, such as family, work, education, and systems of ethics and spirituality.
The cultural and technological innovations of global and local indigenous peoples, including transportation, shelter, tools, hunting and fishing techniques, food cultivation, art, music, and weaving.
Governance and social organization in local and global indigenous societies, including consensus, confederacies, Elders, band councils, and traditional leadership.
Oral history, traditional stories, and artifacts as evidence about past First Peoples cultures and the relationship between humans and their environment — petroglyphs, sacred places, hunting and fishing, and respect for the land.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (BC's curriculum and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.