KS3 Maths Curriculum Support for Parents
This page is designed to help you support your child with Maths at home. Across the year, students build confidence with number, fractions, decimals, percentages, money, measures, algebra, probability, data handling and real-life problem solving.
Each week includes a short overview of what students are learning, why it matters, and helpful BBC Bitesize and YouTube search links so you can explore the topic together at home.
Weekly Learning Resources
Jump to: Autumn 1 ⬇ | Autumn 2 ⬇ | Spring 1 ⬇ | Spring 2 ⬇ | Summer 1 ⬇ | Summer 2 ⬇
Autumn 1: Foundations
Week 1: Introduction to Fundamental Numbers
Students develop confidence with place value, ordering numbers, comparing decimals and rounding. This helps them explain their thinking using clear mathematical language.
Week 2: Introduction to Operations
Students explore addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in real-life contexts. They learn how to choose the correct operation when solving word problems.
Week 3: Rounding and Estimation
Students round whole numbers and decimals, estimate answers and check whether calculations are reasonable.
Week 4: Recognising and Simplifying Fractions
Students recognise fractions as part of a whole, identify numerators and denominators, and simplify fractions to their lowest terms.
Week 5: Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Students convert between fractions, decimals and percentages, including common equivalents such as 1/2, 0.5 and 50%.
Week 6: Percentages of Amounts
Students calculate percentages of amounts using mental methods, fractions, decimals and calculators where appropriate.
Autumn 2: Practical Number Uses
Week 7: Money Calculations
Students calculate totals, change and simple budgets. This helps them apply maths to everyday spending and financial decisions.
Week 8: Budgeting Plan
Students learn about income, expenses and budgeting. They create simple budget plans and make spending choices within a limit.
Week 9: Time Calculations
Students read analogue and digital clocks, use 12-hour and 24-hour time, and calculate durations.
Week 10: Basic Measures
Students recognise standard units for length, mass and capacity, and choose appropriate units for real-life situations.
Week 11: Length, Mass and Volume Conversions
Students convert between common units, including centimetres and metres, grams and kilograms, millilitres and litres.
Week 12: Perimeter and Area of Simple Shapes
Students calculate perimeter and area of squares and rectangles, using correct units such as cm, m, cm² and m².
Spring 1: Developing Application
Week 13: Expressions and Formulae
Students learn what algebraic expressions and formulae are, then practise simplifying expressions and substituting values.
Week 14: Simplifying Expressions
Students identify like terms and simplify algebraic expressions by collecting terms correctly.
Week 15: Substituting Values into Formulae
Students replace letters with numbers in expressions and formulae, using brackets and the correct order of operations.
Week 16: Transition to Risk and Chance
Students begin exploring probability as a measure of chance, using words such as impossible, unlikely, likely and certain.
Week 17: Probability Basics
Students calculate simple probabilities and express them as fractions, decimals or percentages.
Week 18: Interpreting Probability in Real Contexts
Students interpret probability in real-life situations, such as weather, games, risk and decision-making.
Spring 2: Data Handling
Week 19: Reading Tables and Charts
Students read and interpret tables, bar charts, pictograms and line graphs, then compare data and identify trends.
Week 20: Averages
Students calculate mean, median, mode and range, then think about which average is most useful in different situations.
Week 21: Real-Life Problem Solving
Students apply maths to real-life situations involving money, time, measures and data. They learn to break problems into steps and check answers.
Week 22: Budgeting Scenarios
Students apply budgeting skills to practical scenarios, calculating costs, remaining money and making choices within a set budget.
Week 23: Work Context Problems
Students solve work-related problems involving wages, hours, pay and simple schedules.
Summer 1: Consolidation
Week 24: Recap of Geometry and Measures
Students revisit 2D and 3D shapes, perimeter, area, volume, angles and standard units of measure.
Week 25: Angles, Shapes, Area and Volume
Students classify angles, describe shape properties, calculate area and calculate the volume of cuboids.
Week 26: Practical Measurement Problems
Students measure length, mass and volume, convert units and solve practical measurement problems.
Week 27: Mixed Skills Practice
Students practise mixed questions across number, algebra, geometry and data, selecting the right method for each problem.
Week 28: Integrative Tasks Across All Strands
Students combine number, algebra, geometry, measures, statistics and probability in multi-step real-life tasks.
Week 29: Design a Maths Game
Students apply maths creatively by designing a game using skills such as number, probability, measures, data or algebra.
Summer 2: Revision and Assessments
Week 30: Create a Maths Game
Students continue creating, testing and improving their maths games, using feedback to make the rules, scoring and maths more accurate.
Week 31: Sequences
Students continue number sequences, identify term-to-term rules and begin to explore the nth term.
Week 32: Consolidating Skills and Revision
Students revisit key skills across number, algebra, geometry, measures and data, using mixed exam-style questions.
Week 33: Student-Led Revision Resources
Students create revision resources such as flashcards, posters, quizzes and mind maps to help them remember key maths knowledge.
Week 34: Topic Tests and Functional Skills Tasks
Students complete topic tests and practical Functional Skills-style tasks involving money, time, data and problem solving.
Week 35: Perfect Summer Holiday Plan with Budgets
Students plan a holiday within a budget, using maths skills such as money, time, measures, data and decision-making.