The times tables both ways round, then the first fractions — the three things grade 3 is judged on.
The answer key prints on a separate page.
Third grade is the times tables, and the tables are only known when they run backwards as well as forwards. That is why multiplication and division get a section each rather than being mixed: a child can recite the six times table and still stall on 42 ÷ 6, and one page that separates them says which of the two is missing.
Fractions close the paper because grade three meets them as sizes rather than as arithmetic. Comparing two fractions asks whether a child believes that a bigger denominator makes smaller pieces — the one idea the whole later fraction curriculum leans on, and the one that is quietly wrong in a lot of children who can name a fraction perfectly well.
