New Year 3: Add 2 Numbers: No Exchange

In Year 3 children will make great progress with addition, both mentally and using written methods, to add 3-digit numbers. A key part of this is understanding place value. Children need to be confident with placing 3-digit numbers into place value charts and using part-whole models to add numbers with...

New Year 2 Number Bonds to 100 Add and Subtract 1s

Adding and subtracting ones from a given number may seem very straightforward but it is important that children are confident with this and that they can make the connection between adding 1 and adding 2 or other single digit numbers. We have used rekenreks to help with this. These are...

New Year 1 Part-whole Models

Part-whole models are used extensively in primary schools. The initial aim of using them is to show that a number or a whole group of objects can be made up of two or more parts. The group of objects can be split in different ways. For example, 6 can be...

New Reception Resources: Repetitive Patterns

When I was an undergraduate, many years ago, my maths lecturer told me that maths was all about pattern. I have always remembered this, but it took quite a while for me to realise just how important that idea is, helping children make connections, predict and generalise and develop problem-solving...

Addition in Year 6

No particular targets for Year 6 for mental addition but children are expected to be quick and accurate with adding, including working with very large numbers.Three particular skills which children should be using are:Partitioning including crossing place value boundaries e.g. 49 + 38. It is often easier to start by...

Addition in Year 5

Just the one target for Year 5 in the National Curriculum:Add numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.This is rather vague, but in Year 5 children are expected to work with numbers with more than 4 digits, which would include numbers up to millions. This is hard and it is important...