25 Easter Word Problems Year 3
Keep maths skills sharp right up to the Easter break with these 25 Easter Word Problems for Year 3 — festive fun that's secretly rigorous maths practice!
The last weeks of Term 1 don't have to fizzle out. 25 Easter Word Problems Year 3 gives your students 25 festive, contextually rich problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, money, duration and multi-step thinking, every one pitched at Year 3 and mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9.
Each problem is a task card with the story on the left and a generous WORKING OUT panel on the right, so students show their thinking instead of just writing a number. Two identical A5 landscape cards print on each A4 page — cut them apart for a maths rotation, or give every student their own.
A guaranteed hit in every Year 3 classroom every Easter!
Why teachers love it:
- The whole thing is done for you — 33 pages of cover options, a learning intention page, 25 task cards and a full answer key
- Curriculum-linked, not curriculum-adjacent — a tick-box success criteria page with "I can" statements against ACARA v9 codes AC9M3N03, N04, N06, A03 and M03
- Students have to show their working — a dedicated working out panel and a number sentence line on every single card
- Genuinely multi-step — several problems need two operations, not just the obvious one
- Not a single repeat — no number fact here appears in our Christmas Word Problems pack, so a class that did those still gets completely fresh practice
- Photocopier friendly — clean black and white, no heavy ink, no grey fills
Perfect for:
- Year 3 maths lessons in Term 1 and during the Easter period
- Daily problem-of-the-day countdown to the Easter break
- Maths rotations, centres and independent practice
- Fast finisher and extension tasks
- Relief teacher folders
- Easter-themed maths rotations and holiday activities
What's included — 33 printable A4 pages:
- 5 pages of cover options — ten Easter designs, two per page, so students can choose their own
- 1 learning intention and success criteria page — tick-box "I can" statements linked to the Australian Curriculum v9
- 25 task card pages — two identical A5 landscape cards per page, ready to cut apart
- 1 answer key — every answer with its number sentence, so marking takes a minute
- 1 terms of use page
Make the most of every learning day — these Easter word problems prove maths can be magical!
SPECIFICATIONS
Format: PDF, set up for A4 paper. Exactly what's inside is listed above.
Editing: This download is not editable. The PDF is flattened to protect the design and the artists' work we license.
Printing: Open the file in a PDF reader and choose 'Fit to page' or 'Actual size'. Do a test page on plain paper first — card, colour and black-and-white all print well.
Licence: One classroom, one teacher. Please don't share, resell or post the file online; buy an extra licence for each colleague who wants their own copy.
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If a page shows on screen but won't print properly, open it in Acrobat Reader, choose Print → Advanced → tick 'Print as image'.
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