Early Reception: Count up to 3

Children will need plenty of opportunities to represent numbers up to 3, with much of this work being done with objects. As they count it is a good idea to touch each object in turn. Later the number of objects can be matched to cards. In the same way, images...

Later Reception: Halves

In Reception children will be made aware of what a half is, i.e. one of two equal parts of something. Finding half of small amounts can be done as an extension activity, on a practical basis and we have just published 3 colourful sets of pages, halving numbers of apples,...

Year 2: Movement and Turning

Describing position and movement is an important part of maths in Year 2. Great fun can be had with children giving instructions to move from one place to another, using terms such as forwards, backwards, left and right. We have just published some colourful pages recording the movement on a...

Year 1: Time

In Year 1 children will develop their understanding of time, using hours, minutes and seconds. Whilst not converting from one to the other, they will learn that minutes are a longer period than seconds and that hours are a longer period than minutes. Part of this will be to decide...

Year 3: Data Handling

Our latest data handling pages encourage children to collect their own data and then to use this data to make pictograms. Two sets provide ideas, such as collecting data on houses; number of chimneys, front gardens, driveways etc. The third set provides a blank template for children to select their...

Year 4: Numbers up to 10,000

Our resources are very closely matched to the White Rose Maths schemes of work which many schools in England now use. A typical example of this is our latest set of resources for Year 4 on representing numbers up to 10,000. Place value charts, Gattegno charts and base 10 blocks...