Grammar: brackets

Grammar: brackets There are curly brackets and square (or straight) brackets as well as round brackets, which all can be used in different ways, but today we have published two sets of worksheets on round brackets. The main purpose of round brackets (or parentheses) is to provide further information to...

Guy Fawkes and Bonfire night worksheets

Guy Fawkes and Bonfire night worksheets Sparklers, fountains and rockets! Yes, it’s also that time of year again and don’t forget we have a great selection of maths worksheets linked to November 5th and fireworks; free for all trial subscribers and subscribers. From counting fireworks to 20% off the price...

Year 3 Intelligent Practice

Year 3 Intelligent Practice An important aspect of the teaching for mastery approach is to design ‘intelligent practice’ questions so that children are taken along a route where the thinking process is also practised. For example, a set of 5 or 6 questions will enable a child to go through...

Halloween worksheets

Halloween worksheets Ghosts, witches and black cats! It’s that time of year again and we have a great selection of Halloween worksheets which have the bonus of covering some important maths concepts. Partitioning, number problems and measurement are just some of the activities included in these free resources featuring a...

Year 1 Reasoning: sorting

Year 1 Reasoning: sorting As well as rapid recall of knowledge children are also expected to show that they can reason, generalise and justify answers. This, of course, takes a lot of practice and our most recent Year 1 pages on sorting are just the thing to help develop this....

KS2 SAT Papers

KS2 SAT Papers The autumn is now upon us and Year 6 children will have settled in to their last year at primary school, so it is a good time to make the 2017 KS2 Maths SAT Papers available. Full details of how the tests were marked, including answers are...