Negative numbers in Year 5

Negative numbers in Year 5 We have just added a further set of worksheets on negative numbers for Year 5 children. Our previous sets concentrate on recognising and ordering negative numbers. This new set takes this on a further stage where numbers are added or subtracted from negative numbers’ including...

Units or ones?

Units or ones? For many years children were taught about hundreds, tens and units (HTU) and our worksheets used this layout at the top of columns when adding or subtracting. However, in the latest Mathematics Programme of Study the term ‘ones’ is used in place of units. This has subsequently...

Year 4: Using Mixed Units

Year 4: Using Mixed Units Some fun and challenging work for Year 4 children working with mixed units. Each line has to add up to the same total, but the units of measurement are mixed; they might be given in kilograms and grams or litres and millilitres. The key here...

Year 1 Maths: Making Resources Easier to Find

Year 1: Making Resources Easier to Find Many of our categories contain a large number of resources and to make it easier to find exactly what you want we have started to arrange them into sub-categories. The first of these is Counting in Year 1 which has over 80 sets...

Wimbledon worksheets

Wimbledon worksheets Wimbledon is the oldest tennis championship in the world and has been played since 1877 at the ‘All England Club’ in Wimbledon, London. In the early days it was men only, but ladies first entered in 1884. The most famous names in tennis history have all won Wimbledon,...

Distances in kilometres (Year 5)

Distances in kilometres (Year 5) We live in a strange world where we teach children about millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres but then on road signs we measure distances in miles. If we were deliberately trying to confuse children then we could hardly do better! This week we bring some...