Year 3 · Autumn term · Place value · Step 13
Year 3 Order numbers to 1000 worksheets with answers
Put three-digit numbers in order, smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest, using the digits from the left. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
Download the worksheets
Printing tip: the red answers are in the same file, after the questions. For pupils, print only the pages before the red answers (in Word, choose the pages in the print box). Keep the full file for marking.
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- Put the numbers in order, smallest first.473 185 194Order: ____
Show the answer
185, 194, 473
- The numbers have the same hundreds digit. Put them in order, smallest first.845 847 896 829Order: ____
Show the answer
829, 845, 847, 896
- I made these numbers with the same three digits.Put the numbers in order, smallest first.673 637 763 376 367Order: ____
Show the answer
367, 376, 637, 673, 763
- ChallengeHere are four digit cards: 3 7 1 5. Make a 3-digit number using three of the cards.Write the largest number you can make. ____
Show the answer
753
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.