# NSW Stage 2 EAST Maths: Term 3 Units (Year 3-4)

> Stage 2 EAST Maths Term 3 units for Year 3 and Year 4 - fractions, volume, multiplication and 2D shapes resources mapped to NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus.

## NSW Stage 2 EAST Maths: Term 3 Units for Year 3 and Year 4

NSW Stage 2 covers Year 3 and Year 4, the years where mathematical understanding consolidates from concrete representations into more abstract reasoning. Term 3 sits squarely in the second half of the year — students have spent Term 1 and Term 2 building number sense, place value to 1000 and beyond, and the four operations. Term 3 is where the curriculum moves into fractions and decimals, formal multiplicative thinking, volume and capacity, and 2D shape properties. This guide pulls together teacher-made resources mapped to the NSW DoE EAST Maths sequence at Stage 2 for Term 3.

**What EAST Maths is and why teachers use it.** EAST Maths is the NSW Department of Education sequenced units of work for primary mathematics, designed to provide explicit, scope-and-sequence-aligned lesson plans across each Stage. The appeal for classroom teachers is that EAST gives you a complete week-by-week lesson sequence with explicit teaching, guided practice and independent application built in, so you can spend your planning time differentiating rather than building from scratch. Whether you teach in a NSW DoE school using EAST as the school-wide approach, or in a Catholic or independent school looking for a sequenced template that maps cleanly to the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus, the EAST resources are a solid backbone for Stage 2 maths.

The marketplace listings below are teacher-made resources designed to slot directly into EAST Stage 2 Term 3 units — printable worksheets, hands-on rotation activities, exit tickets, formative assessments, and additional differentiated tasks for students who need extension or extra consolidation. They are particularly useful when you are teaching the EAST sequence but find that your class needs more practice on a specific concept than the core unit provides.

**Term 3 content focus areas at Stage 2.** Term 3 Stage 2 typically covers a substantial fractions and decimals block, multiplication and division as inverse operations, volume and capacity, and 2D shape and angle work. Each of these benefits from a different teaching style.

Fractions at Stage 2 needs to move beyond halves and quarters into thirds, fifths, sixths and eighths. Students need extensive concrete-representational-abstract experience — fraction walls, fraction strips, hands-on equal-sharing tasks, and number-line work — before they can confidently compare unlike fractions or add and subtract simple fractions with the same denominator. Plan for at least three weeks of dedicated fraction work, with the second half integrating decimal notation for tenths and hundredths. The link from fractions into decimals is one of the highest-leverage moves in primary maths and worth slowing down for.

Multiplication and division work at Stage 2 builds the formal written algorithm on the foundation of arrays, equal groups and skip counting. By Year 4, students should be moving fluently between multiplication and division of two and three digit numbers by single digits, with mental strategies for friendly numbers. Term 3 is where many teachers introduce the standard algorithm formally, after the conceptual work has been done in Year 3 and earlier in Year 4.

Volume and capacity introduces the cubic centimetre and the litre at Stage 2. Hands-on work with centicubes, water displacement, and capacity comparison tasks should make up most of the lessons. Resist the temptation to jump straight to formula application — the conceptual work matters more at this stage and pays dividends in Stage 3.

2D shape work at Stage 2 moves into properties of polygons, parallel and perpendicular lines, and basic angle classification. Students should be measuring, drawing and classifying shapes rather than just naming them. Pair this with the angle introduction so the students see angles as a property of the shapes they are already working with.

**Differentiating across the Stage 2 cohort.** The Year 3 to Year 4 spread within a Stage 2 class is usually wider than people expect — you will have students still consolidating Stage 1 number sense alongside students ready for Stage 3 multiplicative reasoning. Most EAST Stage 2 units assume you will run a tiered model with three groups, and the marketplace listings below include scaffolded versions of common tasks at three difficulty bands. Plan to use the same task structure across all three groups so the lesson is manageable, but adjust the numbers and the level of representation each group is working with.

**How to use this page.** The first carousel below is filtered specifically for Stage 2 Year 3 and Year 4 resources matching the EAST Term 3 focus. The second carousel pulls from the broader EAST Maths inventory across Year 3 and Year 4 so you can scaffold up or down as needed for differentiated groups. For complementary planning, see our [EAST Maths overview](/teacher-guides/east-maths), [NSW Department Maths Units Stage 3](/teacher-guides/nsw-department-maths-units-stage-3) for early Term 4 prep, and the [Stage 3 levelling strategy](/teacher-guides/levelling-strategy-maths-stage-3) for extending stronger Year 4 students. Fraction-specific support sits in our [fractions worksheets](/teacher-guides/fractions-worksheets) guide.

## Stage 2 EAST Maths Term 3 Resources

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## EAST Maths Resources for Year 3 and Year 4

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## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is EAST Maths and is it only for NSW DoE schools?

EAST Maths is the NSW Department of Education sequenced units of work for primary mathematics. The resources are explicitly designed for NSW DoE schools but they map cleanly to the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus, which means Catholic and independent schools in NSW can use them as a planning backbone with minimal adaptation to their own scope-and-sequence document.

### What does Stage 2 Term 3 maths typically cover in NSW?

Stage 2 Term 3 typically focuses on a substantial fractions and decimals block, multiplication and division as inverse operations including the formal written algorithm, volume and capacity using cubic centimetres and litres, and 2D shape properties with parallel and perpendicular lines. The exact sequence depends on the school scope-and-sequence document but these four blocks dominate the term.

### When should I introduce the standard multiplication algorithm in Year 4?

Most NSW Stage 2 sequences introduce the standard written multiplication algorithm in Term 3 of Year 4, after students have built fluency with arrays, equal groups, area models and partial-product strategies in Year 3 and earlier in Year 4. Introducing the algorithm too early without the conceptual underpinning leads to procedural fluency without genuine understanding, which causes problems in Stage 3.

### How much time should I spend on fractions in Stage 2 Term 3?

Plan for at least three weeks of dedicated fraction work in Stage 2 Term 3. The first two weeks should focus on conceptual work with fraction walls, fraction strips, equal sharing tasks and number-line representations across thirds, fifths, sixths and eighths. The final week introduces decimal notation for tenths and hundredths, tying the two systems together as a single set of part-whole representations.

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