Place Value in Year 6

By Year 6 the targets are challenging, with children needing to be able to read and write numbers from 1 hundredth to 10 million in both words and digits. That’s 0.01 to 10,000,000. Thousandths may also be introduced (0.001). They should be able to recognise the value of digits within...

Place Value in Year 5

Place Value: tenths and hundredths Teaching understanding of place value is still important in Year 5, looking at very large numbers and very small numbers. Children will be expected to understand one tenth and one hundredth and how both 10 tenths and 100 hundredths can be regrouped into 1 one....

Place Value in Year 4

Progress in Year 4 is as expected, working with 4-digit numbers rather than just 3-digit numbers. Children should recognise the place value of each digit in 4-digit numbers and partition 4-digit numbers in various ways. They should know that 10 hundreds are equivalent to 1 thousand and that 1,000 is...

Place Value in Year 3

The key target in Year 3 is for children to recognise the place value of each digit in 3-digit numbers. They should know that 10 tens are equivalent to 1 hundred and that 100 is ten times the size of 10 and be able to work out how many 10s...

Place Value in Years 1 and 2

Understanding place value is crucial for children to make progress from Year 1 onwards. When we talk of place value we mean the value of each digit in a number. For example, the 4 in 64 has a value of 4 but the 4 in 46 has a value of...

Year 6: Adding and subtracting with square and cube numbers

Just published: a new set of pages on adding and subtracting with square numbers and cube numbers. These are typical of a question found in this year’s SAT Papers. An easy mark if you know what to do! Download Now