What is new in Class 3
Class 3 is the first year of the preparatory stage in the new national curriculum, and it feels different from Classes 1 and 2. EVS arrives as its own subject, numbers grow to three digits, and multiplication and division appear for the first time. Children are also expected to read a lesson by themselves and write answers in sentences, not single words.
CBSE schools following the new NCERT books use Maths Mela for maths and Santoor for English in Class 3, and many schools use their own publishers. Our teachers work from the books your child brings home, chapter by chapter.
Maths in Class 3
- Three-digit numbers. Reading, writing and comparing numbers up to 999, and seeing 368 as three hundreds, six tens and eight ones.
- Adding and subtracting. Column sums with carrying and borrowing across hundreds, tens and ones, and word problems that use them.
- Multiplication. Equal groups, repeated addition, arrays, and learning tables.
- Early division. Sharing objects equally and grouping, and seeing division as the reverse of multiplication.
- Measurement and money. Length, weight and capacity, telling time, rupees and paise, and simple bills.
- Shapes, patterns and data. Basic 2D and 3D shapes, number and shape patterns, and reading simple charts.
The two places Class 3 children get stuck most are tables and division. A child who has not learnt that 7 times 8 is 56 has to count every time, and long problems become exhausting. Division then makes little sense, because it depends on knowing the tables backwards. Teachers build tables through patterns, arrays and short daily quizzes in Qlive Space, and link each division question back to a multiplication fact.
English and EVS in Class 3
English moves from learning to read towards reading to understand. Children read longer stories and poems, answer questions about them, learn more grammar such as describing words and simple tenses, and write short paragraphs.
EVS covers family and community, plants and animals, food, water, shelter and the world around the child. The content is friendly, but it is often the first subject where your child has to read a page, pick out what matters and write it in their own words. That is a reading and writing challenge more than an EVS one, and a teacher can work on both at once.
Second languages
Hindi, Arabic or Malayalam textbooks get longer in Class 3, with short passages, simple grammar and dictation. Children who never secured the script in Classes 1 and 2 often hit a wall here. We teach these languages from your child’s school book, and the Foundation programme rebuilds them level by level when the gaps go back further.
What a Class 3 class looks like
Classes are usually 60 minutes, live on Google Meet, with the work in Qlive Space. A typical class starts with a quick tables round or a recap your child explains, then new work using pictures, number lines and arrays, then practice at your child’s level. Matching, fill in the blanks and short quizzes keep a Class 3 child busy, and the teacher catches mistakes in the moment rather than at the end of the week.
Worksheets are set in Qlive Pulse, and checkpoints every two to three weeks show which topics are secure. Your Student Success Partner keeps in touch through the Qlive Learn app.
Signs your child may need help
- Tables are slow, or recited from the start each time to find one fact.
- Borrowing in subtraction is still a puzzle.
- Division homework is avoided or guessed.
- EVS answers are one or two words, or copied straight from the book.
- Reading a word problem aloud is fine, but your child cannot say what it asks.
On the British curriculum, Class 3 is roughly Year 4, where times tables to 12 are expected. ICSE and state boards cover similar maths in Class 3, sometimes in a different order.
Start with a free assessment
The free assessment, guided live by a Qlive counsellor, starts at Class 3 and moves back into earlier topics where your child is unsure. It shows whether place value, tables and reading are secure. Read more about classes for Grades 3 to 5 or maths tuition.
