Year 4: Draw Line Graphs

Children are introduced to line graphs for the first time in Year 4. A key part of this is to understand continuous data. For example, the temperature of a room can change all the time, so it is not appropriate to use a bar chart or block graph to show...

Year 6: Draw Line Graphs

After children have finished with SATs it is important that they have meaningful activities which are enjoyable and purposeful – especially as most children will be moving on to High School next term. Statistics is a topic well suited to this, and we have just published three sets of pages...

Year 5: Draw Line Graphs

Reading and interpreting line graphs is a major part of Statistics work in Year 5. Children will begin to draw line graphs and interpret the information presented on the graph. This will involve reading the graph at specific points to get information. As for Year 6, our new pages involve...

Reasoning in Year 6

Reasoning skills are all about applying knowledge and understanding to solve new problems. The key feature of work in Year 6 has to be the KS2 Maths SATs which are held in May. There are three written papers. One is a calculation paper, concentrating on mental and written calculations. The...

Reasoning in Year 5

Many of our resources in all categories involve mathematical reasoning, but we also have a special area, called Reasoning/Problem Solving for each year group which really concentrates on this important aspect of Mathematics. We would like to highlight just three sets of resources for Year 5 Reasoning on: Ordering decimals...

Reasoning in Year 4

No one would argue against knowing number facts and that being able to calculate efficiently is vitally important. But there is much more to maths than this. It is no use being able to calculate accurately if you do not know what calculation to carry out – most of the...