Year 2 Maths Resources: Week 35

We are now on our penultimate set of resources for the Year 2 Primary Framework Planning, which covers Block E, Unit 3, Week 2. As usual we have our 40 mental arithmetic questions, this week concentrating on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The 10p challenge is a good mini investigation...

Year 2 Maths Investigation: Car Number Plates

Georgie Gorilla has just received his brand new car, but it hasn't got a number plate yet. Gorilla number plates are easier to read than human ones as they only have the digits 1, 2 or 3 on them and there is only room for three numbers on the number...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 34

We are getting towards the end of the year 2 programme of maths resources which match the Primary Framework for Maths Planning. This week we are looking at Block E, Unit 3. The focuses of learning for this block include: 1. Subtracting 19 mentally by subtracting 20 and then adding...

Year 2 maths: Buttons in the boxes

One of the favourite questions that maths teachers like to ask is, 'How many ways can...?' This maths challenge is one of the best examples of this type of investigation. There are three boxes and 20 buttons. How many ways can the buttons be put in the boxes so that...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 33

We are moving towards the end of the school weekly planning as we publish Week 33, which is the last for the Primary Framework planning for Block D, Unit 3. As always we have 40 mental arithmetic questions and it cannot be repeated often enough that if children are to...

Year 4 Addition Games

We are very excited to release the first set in a series of year 4 mental maths games. We have just added 27 great new mental maths games on addition for children aged between 8 and 9 (that's year 4 in the UK).  To make it a little easier to...