Year 3 Bar Modelling: Adding

Year 3 Bar Modelling: Adding Bar modelling is becoming increasingly popular in schools as a way to represent an abstract calculation. In these pages the bar model approach can be used to help find the third number to make a total of 100. There are various ways children might approach...

Year 2 Measurement of Length

Year 2 Measurement of Length Comparing lengths is the topic for this week’s new Year 2 Measurement worksheets. A combination of using rulers on the page, comparing lengths using longest/shortest and understanding the more than/less than signs combine to make interesting and lively pages. This is a great collection of...

Year 1 One more and one less

Year 1 One more and one less A great emphasis is made in Year 1 on children being able to find one more and one less than a number. In our latest set of worksheets numbers are displayed in different ways; by spots on dice, in words and in numbers,...

Grammar: Passive and active voice

Grammar: Passive and active voice This sounds more complicated than it really is. In a passive sentence what would usually be the object of the sentence is turned into the subject. For example, here is a sentence: Sam hit the ball. The subject is Sam and the object is the...

Fun maths board games

Fun maths board games Fun holiday activities with a mathematical twist Here are some great ideas for the holidays. Matchstick puzzles Are you ready to challenge your logical thinking by moving the matchsticks to solve the puzzles? Logic may get you to the answers, but sometimes that will not be...

Year 3 Reasoning: Place Value Grids

Year 3 Reasoning: Place Value Grids Place value grids and charts are used a great deal in the maths mastery curriculum as they provide a clear visual guide to the values in each column. To provide some extra support for this we have just published two sets of pages looking...