Year 6 Dividing mentally

Whilst the written methods of long and short division take up a considerable amount of time in Year 6 it is important not to neglect other aspects of mental division. Understanding place value is central to our ability to calculate mentally and this still needs to be reinforced in Year...

Fraction sequences in Year 5

A key task in Year 5 is for children to have as much practice as possible counting up and down in a given fraction. An important part of this is to determine by how much the sequence is increasing or decreasing. This is easy with whole numbers but needs a...

Free Home Study Packs

With schools now closed again, we have produced weekly packs of Primary Maths resources which are free of charge, allowing you to support your child while they are at home. We have selected six sets for each pack from our large collection of high quality resources, with each pack concentrating...

Year 4 Division on-screen activities

Great news: we have just added 15 more on-screen activities to challenge children on mental division. They concentrate on mental division by 11 and 12, including bar models to help visualise the problems, as well as finding numbers that are divisible by 11 and 12.These can be quite tricky, especially...

Year 3 Money

Money is one of the topics we get asked for most, and we have an excellent selection of resources, especially in Year 3. We have sub-divided the topic into 5 sub-categories:• Counting with money and making amounts with coins• Writing money in pounds and pence• Addition and subtraction of money•...

Gingerbread division for Years 2 and 3

With the cold dark days of winter here nothing like a taste of gingerbread to sweeten working with division in maths and we have just published new pages with a gingerbread theme for both Years 2 and 3.Year 2: understanding division by 10In Year 2 the questions revolve around packing...