Measuring Length in Year 3

Children are introduced to millimetres in Year 3 and they will understand that millimetres can be used to measure lengths that are not an exact number of centimetres. Measurement should be recorded as a number of centimetres and millimetres e.g. ‘the pencil is 6 cm and 4 mm long’. Children...

Measuring Length in Year 2

In Year 2 children will be expected to measure using the standard unit of centimetres and be familiar with the abbreviation ‘cm’. Lining up a ruler to start from zero rather than the edge or 1 cm mark is essential to get accurate measurements. Children will also begin to measure...

Measuring Length in Year 1

The National Curriculum Programme of Study states that: Pupils should be taught to: compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights (e.g. long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half) measure and begin to record lengths and heights This is very much practical in nature, with children comparing the lengths and heights...

Reception new resources: number bonds to 10

Number bonds is a term which is often used in early years maths. They are two whole numbers that add up to a certain number. If we take the number bonds of 8 we can see that 8 can be made of: 1 and 7 2 and 6 3 and...

Year 1 new resources: doubling

Children will begin to learn about doubling in Year 1. At first they will use real objects to make doubles, leading on to adding two equal quantities together. An important part of this work is that children begin to use the language of doubling; e.g. ‘double 3 is 6’, keeping...

Year 2 new resources: doubling and halving

In Year 1 children see doubling as adding two equal quantities. In Year 2 the connection is made between adding two equal numbers and multiplying by 2, as well as recognising that halving a number is the same as dividing by 2.Once children are confident with doubling and halving small...