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To make it easier for schools, teachers and even parents, we’ve collected here all our free Year 3 Maths Worksheets and Year 3 Maths Tests that you can use to support Year 3 maths classroom teaching and homework.

The focus here is on practising and improving pupils’ core skills and revising what you have taught them in class, especially with numbers worksheets. National Curriculum guidance is given where relevant and each year 3 worksheet and year 3 test includes answer sheets.

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Year 3 free place value worksheets

Other year 3 place value worksheets:, year 3 free addition and subtraction worksheets, year 3 free multiplication and division worksheets, other year 3 multiplication and division worksheets, year 3 free fractions worksheets, other year 3 fractions worksheets, year 3 free measurement worksheets, other year 3 measurement worksheets, year 3 geometry worksheets, year 3 free statistics worksheets, other year 3 statistics worksheets, year 3 fluency, reasoning and problem solving worksheets, also in this series…, year 3 maths worksheets on place value: all kinds of word problems.

These Year 3 number and place value worksheets give lots of practice on one-step and two-step word problems to strengthen children’s understanding of place value and ordering numbers.

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Year 3 place value worksheets: Maths Code Crackers

This place value worksheet provides a fun recap of the place value topic. Children need to solve place value questions (including writing numbers, comparing numbers and ordering numbers) to find the answer to a pirate themed joke. 

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Year 3 place value worksheets: Worked Examples Place Value  

Children love to be the teacher! These worksheets include five answered questions, but they haven’t always been answered correctly. Children need to check the given answers to place value questions involving number lines, Base 10 and counters and explain the errors they find.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on addition and subtraction: Gap Plugging Pack

These lessons are what we use during our online maths interventions. The year 3 addition and subtraction worksheets include lots of addition and subtraction questions for children to follow along with. As they are intended to be used by a tutor teaching and supporting a child through their Year 3 addition and subtraction understanding, parents may need to be prepared to step in occasionally. 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on multiplication: All Kinds of Word Problems

The Y ear 3 multiplication worksheets work on children’s understanding of multiplication facts and multiplication tables in context. Year 3 is a big times tables year so make sure you encourage the learning of times tables at home .

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on division: Short and Long Division Worksheets

Teaching the long division metho d as part of KS2 maths lessons is a challenge for many teachers let alone parents. Year 3 children won’t be ready for long division as it is not taught until upper key stage 2 but these long division worksheets start with short division so a child can progress from from 1-digit number division to division with 2-digit numbers using division facts and multiples.  See also this parents guide to division for kids.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on multiplication & division: Code Crackers

We’ve combined what 7 and 8 year old children should know by the Spring term of Year 3 to create these ‘retrieval’ practice tasks. This means they are able to work through a series of questions that revisits what they’ve learnt in class. 

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Year 3 Division Word Problems Worksheets: All Kinds of Word Problems on Division Year 3

This workbook includes a range of different types of worded problems to challenge children. The questions range from ‘traditional’ worded problems to missing number problems to make sure children have a good understanding of division.

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Year 3 Division Worksheets: Let’s Practice Using the Bar Model Division Year 3

Division can be very challenging for some children. These worksheets encourage the use of bar models to visualise and solve different division problems. With either scaffolded sheets (showing the relevant bar model) or non-scaffolded sheets, these worksheets provide a range of worded division problems that can be easily solved with the help of a bar model. 

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Year 3 Multiplication and Division Worksheets: Worked Examples Multiplication and Division

These worksheets show a range of techniques used when teaching multiplication and division in Year 3. In these worksheets, children are presented with completed questions using formal column multiplication, sharing, partitioning and using a number line to complete calculations, but the answers are not always right. Children will need to work through the questions to find the correct answer and explain the errors. 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on fractions: Independent Recap

Our newest resource – these time saving maths worksheets are designed to be completed by children with little support from parents or teachers, making them great homework activities for busy afternoons. This pack contains four worksheets that cover ordering, adding and subtracting fractions.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on fractions: All Kinds of Word Problems

Understanding of fractions starts early and builds progressively in key stage 2. This year 3 fractions worksheet provides questions around unit and non-unit fractions including comparing and ordering and adding and subtracting; lots more fractions for kids help is available. 

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Year 3 fractions worksheet: Code Crackers 

This fun worksheet focuses on comparing and ordering fractions, finding equivalent fractions as well as adding and subtracting fractions, all to find the answer to a joke.

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Year 3 fractions worksheets: Worked Examples

Fractions are not always easy for all children to understand. By looking at and correcting the work of others, children often find it easier to explain mistakes. This worksheet focuses on enabling children to identify and explain the mistakes in a range of fractions questions, including fractions on a number line and fractions of amounts.

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Year 3 fractions worksheets: Let’s Practise Using the Bar Model Fractions and Decimals

This worksheet encourages the use of bar models to solve fractions questions. While decimals are not taught explicitly in Year 3, this worksheet introduces two questions that involve decimals to start to develop the connection between fractions and decimals. 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on money: Code Crackers

Money is a surprisingly big part of the Year 3 maths curriculum. The Code Crackers series of maths worksheets is perfect for Year 3 homework as it requires very little intervention from parents. There is no new content introduced. 

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Year 3 money worksheets: Worked examples

Adding and subtracting money is an important life skill and part of the Year 3 curriculum. This worksheet covers adding and subtracting money in pounds and pence, including the use of estimating and number lines.

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Year 3 time worksheets: Code Crackers

Year 3 children are expected to have a good understanding of time (including telling the time, knowing time language, know key time facts and compare durations of time). While this is a lot to know, this worksheet will help to recap these facts in an engaging way. 

Download Year 3 time worksheet: Code Crackers

Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Time: Year 3 Worked Examples Time

This worksheet focuses on a small selection of the Year 3 time topic that children often struggle with including telling the time to the nearest minute, understanding 24-hour time and finding the duration of events. 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Properties of Shape: Independent Recap

These worksheets have been designed so that children can independently recap key learning about key properties of 2D shape and 3D shapes as well as angles and naming different lines. While some of the questions might seem simple, each sheet includes a challenge to encourage reasoning skills. 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Properties of Shape: Maths Code Crackers Year 3

While children are taught about shapes from Year 1, they are expected to use more complex language to describe a range of shapes in Year 3. This worksheet focuses on the properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes, including and understanding of lines of symmetry and angles. 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on Properties of Shape: Year 3 Worked Examples

This worksheet focuses more on the key vocabulary needed to describe properties of shape including vocabulary for lines (vertical/ parallel), 2-D shapes (quadrilateral) and angles (acute angles, right angles).

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on statistics: Code Crackers

Children are presented one-step and two-step retrieval questions about a bar chart and table. The worksheet helps them to develop their ability to read and interpret data presented in different ways. Simple tables are not new to Year 3 pupils and bar charts build on their existing knowledge of block diagrams.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets on statistics: Worked examples

In this worksheet, children are presented with a table, pictogram and a bar chart to read and interpret. This worksheet highlights some of the common errors that are made by Year 3 children in statistics lessons.

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets for improving mental maths, arithmetic and fluency: Fluent in Five

We recommend every primary school child starts their day with Fluent in Five. It’s 5-10 minutes of daily arithmetic questions; at this age, your child has to answer 4 questions using either a written or mental method and it’s a fantastic way to develop their numeracy. You’ll be amazed how quickly they become able to switch back and forth from column addition to the mental method with 3-digit numbers! 

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Year 3 Maths Worksheets for problem solving and reasoning: Rapid Reasoning

Children often struggle with maths reasoning at KS2 , e specially in lower Key Stage 2. This set of more than 120 maths reasoning questions includes modelled answers and step by step guidance to support pupils through solving them. Each Year 3 maths reasoning worksheet has approximately 4 questions on it.

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Year 3 Maths Test: Times Tables

It’s essential that children become proficient and quick at their times tables especially now the multiplication tables check is coming into force and schools really need parents support in this. Here are some quick times tables tests that Year 3 children can mark themselves to identify any gaps in their times tables and track their progress.

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Year 3 Maths Test: All Topics

This Year 3 maths assessment covers the entire Year 3 maths curriculum and is a great way to get an overall view of how a child is doing in maths. There are two tests: a year 3 maths arithmetic test and a year 3 maths reasoning test. Although the time allowed may vary, at home we recommend setting aside an hour for each. Remember that some topics they may not yet have covered in class, so like any formative or summative assessment it’s only a snapshot. 

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Homework ideas for maths for Year 3 (though can be used for other year groups). Can be optional, for children to choose their own project, or handed out weekly, or half termly. Includes direction, sequences, patterns, distance, weight, length, times tables, fractions, shapes, money, data handling, time, number problems, estimation, capacity and symmetry.

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• Author: Kevin Harcombe
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• Date Posted: 12 January 2011

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Evenings and weekends are precious to us all. So don't waste children's time, and your own, by setting dull homework...

Homework – a compound word that resonates down the chalk dust swirling corridors of all our school days. Home: warmth, security, a place to relax. Work: well, fill this one in yourself, why don’t you?

The point is, the two things don’t often sit well together and I have always been ambivalent about the value of homework for children under 11. An Ofsted inspector once told me that they’d stopped being critical of schools about parental attitudes to homework, because invariably half of parents thought the school set too little and the other half set too much, so schools couldn’t win (no change there, then).

Some parents think homework must be a ‘good thing’, without being quite sure why. They may have read it in the Daily Mail, or they may be of the “I had to do it and it never did me any harm” school of thought, in which case what’s wrong with flogging and outside lavatories?

These may well be the same parents who can remember how to do quadratic equations; unlike me whose secondary school child regularly weeps into her calculator at half nine of a Tuesday evening whilst bewailing the fact her parent is a mathematical imbecile. (Watch out, I riposte, it’s genetic.)

When homework has a positive impact

The nub of the matter is that homework is only useful when meaningful, related to and supporting class based work, well matched to the child, time limited and marked with top notch feedback from the teacher. Sadly, this is only the case in a minority of cases. Having got those longwinded caveats off my chest, here are some suggestions where homework can be manageable (for both the setter and the doer) and have a positive impact.

6 creative homework tasks

Interview a family member about their school days, work, play, food, etc. This develops questioning skills and can be recorded rather than written. Digital dictaphones are available for 20 quid and are within the reach of most schools. Results can be shared and presented in any way from a video presentation to a pie chart.

2. Pack a suitcase

Following some input on WWII and the mass evacuation of the young, set the children the task of making their own evacuation suitcase. (Some children will literally make one out of cardboard, but it’s the contents that are the key). What five things would they take with them and why? They can write this, or simply talk through their suitcase with the rest of the class. It’s the thinking behind this task that is the real learning. The speaking/ listening/writing is, as so often, a secondary benefit.

3. Flour babies

Read Anne Fine’s tremendous book of the same name, then provide the children with their very own flour baby (basically a 1 kilo bag of flour they have to look after as if it’s a baby). Children will draw faces on theirs, dress it, even push it to school in a toy buggy. Again, the real learning is in the thinking and empathy the activity generates.

4. Parent portraits

Sketch a parent in Henry Moore / Lucian Freud style, i.e. unflatteringly. It’s great fun, gives the parents a break from the child’s “I don’t know what to draw” cry and is a chance to look at more recent British artists.

5. Set up a museum

Our Y3 and Y4 children were recently given the task of designing their own Egyptian artefact at home. Resourcefulness from children – irrespective of family background – was stunning. We received several hieroglyphic scrolls (rolled up around cotton reels, rubbed with a tea bag to give the ageing effect) a multiplicity of pyramids (made from card, plasticine, lego), sarcophaguses, jewellery and lots of mummified Barbies and Kens. The class was turned into a museum, with carefully written exhibit cards and children curators on hand to explain the historical background to why the Egyptians valued these things, and opened up to parents and other classes on a Friday afternoon.

6. Serve breakfast

Sanctions for not having done homework don’t work, rewards do. Compare “If you don’t hand in homework you’ll miss break / lunch / PE / life.” With ” If you do hand it in regularly you’ll be invited to the end of half term Big Breakfast in the hall where your teacher will serve you toast, cereal, yoghurts, juice, etc.” Simple really, and a special occasion to look forward to at the end of half term.

Level the playing field

Set up a homework club…

For those children who don’t have access to books, internet, paper, pencils, scissors, glue at home, you could start a homework club and give those attending use of the school’s ICT facilities. For those familes who are ‘book poor’ you need to make sure your own library is well provided for. Last Christmas I asked assembly, “How many of you got some sort of a book as a Christmas present?” Less than half the hands went up. In the People’s Republic of Harcombe, when I get round to setting it up, the giving of books as presents would be enforced by presidential decree.

Throw the book at them

When parents ask about homework for their child I always respond that a) the best thing for a child to do of an evening is have some quality time with family and friends, sit down for a meal together, play a sport, learn a musical instrument or sing and not feel badgered into working all the hours God sends, and b) reading is just about the best homework anyone, adult or child, can do.

Parents don’t count reading as homework, see, and we need to educate them (this parent thinks homework is when you have indentations in your finger from holding the pen/tapping the keyboard for three hours, because writing is homework).

Time spent reading is seldom wasted and is either entertaining, thought provoking or informative or – just like this article, hopefully – all three. If you like you can structure what the children read by recommending lists (The Redlands Ten – ten books to read before you’re 10) to add a little challenge to the task. Local libraries might be able to help by ordering multiple copies of books for those parents that can’t/won’t buy them. Children get a certificate (and a book!) when they complete the ten.

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Study words with silent letters from their reading book. Put the words into groups according to the silent letter.

Write a short description of their favourite thing to do in the summer holidays. Note that someone else will be reading their writing so they need to check for sense and handwriting.

Have fun writing a new rhyme based on the same pattern a 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star',eg. 'Wriggle, wriggle little worm'.

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Homework activities will be added to the website on a weekly basis, usually by a Thursday evening (see the dated posts below).

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Please complete and send the book back into school by the following Tuesday .

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It is hugely beneficial for children to read regularly. Varying the way reading happens can help to keep it interesting. F or all ages of children, it is valuable to  have a story read to them as well as you spending time l istening to your child read regularly.

Discussing the books content is an essential part of reading as this supports the development of the child's comprehension skills, whilst also helping them to start formulating their own opinions about what they read.

Please continue to regularly rehearse reading and writing the High Frequency Word list, which shows the key vocabulary that they need to practise. Further resources to support this can be found at  https://www.raglanciwvcprimary.co.uk/english-resources/

Spring 2020

• Our Roots 9.1.20
• Handwriting 16.1.20
• Column Addition 23.1.20
• Reading Comprehension 29.1.20
• Punctuation 7.2.20
• Eisteddfod song and design your own avatar
• Concorde 27.2.20
• Thinking of ideas 5.3.20
• Road Safety 12.3.20

AUTUMN TERM 2019

• Beat the Monster 12.09.19
• Times Tables 4.9.19
• Handwriting 19.9.19
• Times Tables Practice 26.9.19
• Vikings 3.10.19
• Reading Comprehension
• Home Learning 17.10.19
• The Gunpowder Plot 24.10.19
• Market Research-7.11.19
• Reasoning-Bar Modelling 14.11.19
• Reading Comprehension 21.11.19
• Our New Topic 28.11.19
• Typing Practice 5.12.19
• Christmas 19.12.19

Summer Term Homework

• Summer Term Week 1 2/05/19
• Summer Term Week 2 10/05/19
• Summer Term Week 3 16/5/19
• Summer Term Week 4 23/5/19
• Summer Term Week 6 13/06/19
• Week 7 20/06/19
• Week 8 27/06/19

Spring Term Homework 2019

• Spring Week 1 10.01.19
• Spring Week 2 17.01.19
• Spring Week 3 24.01.19
• Spring Week 4 31.01.19
• Spring Week 5 7.02.19
• Spring Week 6 - Eisteddfod
• Week 8 07.03.19 - History Project
• Week 9 14.03.19
• Week 10 21.03.19
• Week 1128.03.19
• Spring Week 12 4.4.19
• EASTER HOMEWORK

Autumn Term 2018 Homework

• Week 1 12.09.18
• Week 2 20.09.18
• Week 3 27.09.18
• Week 4 04.10.18
• Week 5 11.10.18
• Week 6 Half Term Homework
• Week 7 09.11.18
• Week 8 15.11.18
• Week 9 22.11.18
• Week 10 28.11.18
• Week 11 06.12.18

Homework Spring term 2018

Homework autumn 2017.

Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.

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Creative Homework Ideas

How can you create homework assignments that build on the day’s lessons and encourage creative, student-led learning? It’s a challenge for most teachers, especially as motivating pupils to complete homework can add a whole extra layer to your lesson plans. But it’s essential to bridge the gap between teacher and student learning –  the skills gained through independent study reinforces knowledge from your class, as well as a host of other benefits:

• Extended learning time – outside of the constraints of the school day, students are free to learn at their own pace and in their own environment.
• Independent learning – vital skills for exam preparation and higher education
• Teaches students to be resourceful and to overcome challenges independently.
• Gives students the freedom to be creative in their learning, gain valuable problem-solving skills and confidence in their own abilities.

Tips For Setting Creative Homework

• Plan independent learning both in and out of the classroom – you can monitor students effectiveness and address issues that may arise in the classroom before they become problematic for pupils at home.
• Don’t leave homework assignment to the end of the lesson, rushing through the task might leave some students confused which inevitably leads to a lower homework completion rate. Write plenty of time for explaining homework assignments into your lesson planning – read our Beginner’s Guide To Lesson Planning here
• Homework should to not too easy nor not too hard, offering pupils a challenge that reinforced the topics learnt during the day
• Give room for creative expression – allowing students to add their own diagrams, decorations or chose their own project topics from a selection. 
• Try using peer or self-assessment to mark homework – a double whammy of reducing your workload and allowing pupils to take control of their own learning.
• Include timings and explicit steps for completing more complicated assignments, especially for pupils that you anticipate might struggle. Comprehension of the task is the biggest hurdle in getting pupils to work on an independent basis.
• Self-driven projects, posters, creative tasks and research are more exciting than standard comprehension tasks and might encourage pupils that find sitting and writing dull or hard to complete the homework set – give students the freedom to learn and be creative in their home study.
• Provide specific instructions and internet safety reminders for research-led assignments. It’s very easy for children to find research overwhelming with a vast amount of information available online. Provide suggested websites and links in your homework to keep things on track!
• Don’t introduce a new topic for homework – keep it to topics that you’ve already covered in class
• Taking note of the subjects that excite and engage your class and set homework accordingly – try keeping dryer topics and  for the classroom so that you can monitor engagement
• Mark work promptly – essential to keep students motivated to complete work in their own time!
• Offering students the opportunity to select the homework that they would like to do from a selection guarantees a higher rate of completion. We’ve seen some teachers create grids or sheets of homework assignments for the pupils to select, or offer baskets of activities for younger children to take home and complete with an adult.

Creative Homework Ideas For All Ages

Coming up with innovative ways for students to reinforce their knowledge at home can be difficult – many of these ideas would be suitable for lots of subjects with a little tweaking!

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20+ creative alternative homework ideas for teachers

When giving homework, it must always be based on learning goals your students have to reach, just like in your lessons. But it’s sad to see that lots of teachers are using homework as extra lesson time. Of course, as a teacher, you’re on a clock. But that doesn’t mean your students have to suffer from it and keep working on those boring textbooks and worksheets at home.

Consider goals like attitudes, real-life experiences, and practice, physical exercise, social encounters, creative solutions, and philanthropy as crucial as your lesson goals. These are things students don’t just pick up in your classroom. These are things they pick up in life.

In this blog post, I’ll give you some innovative homework ideas that will engage your students more. These alternatives to traditional homework will thereby also teach your students new things that can’t be taught in the classroom. You will find a variety of homework ideas: online and offline.

I will mention homework alternatives for primary school and high school. Some of these ideas can be changed a little bit, so they are the perfect fit for the right audience.

20 Creative homework ideas

You can divide homework tasks into the following themes or categories:

• Crafts & arts
• Outdoor activities & outings
• Games and activities
• Physical activities
• Digital or computer activities
• Philanthropy & social work

💡 Good to know : all the ready-to-use homework activities are created with BookWidgets . You can easily create activities like these yourself or duplicate an activity below for free, edit it if needed, and share it with your students. You can do so in the examples separately, or you can find all the homework examples in the BookWidgets Blog group folder .

Crafts and arts homework

1. prepare a dish from a recipe book.

2. Make a board game

3. Create a birdhouse

4. Transform a fictional book character into a hand puppet

Outdoor homework activities and outings

5. coupon game.

Students can also go grocery shopping with their parents. Here, they have to read the ingredients of the products and help their parents choose the healthiest products for the best prices, figure out the best deal between the sizes of items, …

6. Visit the zoo

7. Visit the local dumping ground or container park

8. Build a tree house

Games and activities as homework

9. bookwidgets games.

10. Minecraft

11. Play Cards

12. Play Zoo Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon

Physical homework activities

13. rope skipping.

Many rope-skipping songs let your students do different tricks while rope-skipping. This is an excellent opportunity for homework as well. Ask your students to transform a rope skipping song into a song with lesson content. Let them count or spell or even sum up the different states or capitals. To engage their lifestyles even harder, you can additionally give them the assignment to create a TikTok in which they are jumping and singing.

Click here to see how you can get Tiktok more involved in the classroom.

14. Walking quest

If there aren’t any walking quests in the neighborhood, you could ask your students to create a walking quest like this for their fellow students. What a fun day it will be!

15. Obstacle Quiz

In order for students to answer the questions, they have to run and pass a challenging parkour. This is a fun homework exercise, and in the end, it’s a great lesson starter or lesson end.

16. Swimming games

After the activity, they can fill out an Exit Slip:

Digital or computer homework activities

17. create a picture album.

This teaches them to handle the online software, add pictures and write without spelling mistakes. And of course, creating memories is so much fun!

18. Video job application

19. Your life in 10 minutes - video

20. Email pen-pals

Is it still too complicated? Read the messages from your students, before they send them, and provide them with some feedback.

Philanthropy and social homework

21. grow a community garden.

22. Help in a retirement home

23. Help at a homeless shelter

24. Collect litter

Here’s another homework tip: Don’t call homework “homework”. Call it a challenge. Homework has become a negative word for students, and I bet they start rolling their eyes as you even mention the word.

Still looking for more inspiration? Check out the blog on short films and lesson activities that spice up your Google Classroom . Tip: even if you don’t use Google Classroom, there is a lot of inspiration back here.

Above you have read single assignments. But, you also have the option to involve your homework in a project. Find out more here .

So, as I mentioned earlier, there are many fun alternatives to traditional homework. Now it’s up to you to apply this in the classroom as well. In this folder , you will find all the examples you have come across.

Which idea do you or perhaps your students like the most? Let us know on Twitter . Of course, there are many more alternatives. If you have other ideas, you are always welcome to share it with other teachers in our Facebook group .

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