Year 6 New Resources: Order of Operations

It’s coming up to that time when revising for SATs begin. The Year 6 SAT papers frequently have questions involving the order of operations. Last year’s Arithmetic Paper included the question:30 − 56 ÷ 8 =Children need to be aware that they have to carry out the division part:56 ÷...

Multiplication in Year 6

Whilst it is hoped that children in Year 5 have mastered the formal method of long multiplication, they will still need plenty of practice if they are going to remember the process in Year 6 and for SATs. This practice will often take the form of multiplying numbers with up...

Multiplication in Year 5

Less familiar multiplication targets in Year 5The National Curriculum targets for multiplication in Year 5 are lengthy and challenging.Obviously, there are targets on mental and written multiplication, such as multiplying numbers up to 4-digits by a 2-digit number, but there are also some less familiar targets which I would like...

Multiplication in Year 4

There is one very straight forward target for children in Year 4 which will dominate much of the work carried out during the year. It is simply:4C6a Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12.So, what does this mean? Quite simply, if asked a question...

Multiplication in Year 3

In Year 2 children will have learnt the 10 times table and in Year 3 they will use this knowledge to work with greater multiples of 10. For instance, 16 × 10 or 24 × 10. They will also explore multiplying multiples of ten such as 3 × 50 or...

Multiplication in Year 2

A key part of multiplication at the start of Year 2 is to make sure that children understand the connection between repeated addition and multiplication. Children can find the answer to a multiplication by adding equal groups. Their ability to count in twos, fives and tens will help enormously.The multiplication...