Year 6: Compare and Order Large Numbers

Whilst children in Year 6 are expected to work with very large numbers, including millions, they still need plenty of practice comparing smaller numbers with the same number of digits and with different numbers of digits. Our latest pages look at comparing and ordering large numbers, including comparing numbers written...

Year 5: Estimating Capacity

There is a subtle difference between the terms capacity and volume of a container. The capacity of a jar, for example, is how much liquid it can hold, whilst the volume is the amount of liquid actually in the jar. Children in Year 5 are expected to know and understand...

Year 4: Translations

In Year 4 children will be introduced to the term, ‘translation’, in relation to moving points and shapes on a grid. At first children will be asked to move a point left/right or up/down before moving a point both left/right and up/down. Here they will see that both the x...

Year 3: Two-way Tables

Statistics is often taught at the end of the academic year, perhaps being considered less important than other areas of the maths curriculum. However, in an age where we are inundated by data it is important that children can understand and interpret the facts and figures presented to them. Two-way...

Year 2: Shape Patterns with Turns

Children will develop their understanding of movement and turns in Year 2. They will describe movement in terms of up, down, left and right, as well as forwards and backwards. This can be quite challenging for children as the direction of forwards, backwards, left and right will change depending on...

Year 1: Time

Teaching time in Year 1 is more than just reading the time on a clock face. Days of the week, months of the year and a variety of vocabulary related to time will all be taught. To help with this we have just published a great selection of new resources....