The Early Years: Seven Strands of Maths

The content of this site follows the expectations laid down by the National Curriculum, in particular the Primary Framework for Mathematics. The Primary Framework sets out yearly teaching programmes from Reception through to Year 6. Part of these teaching programmes is a set of key objectives – in other words,...

The Early Years: What is Expected? Introduction

The Early Years or The Foundation Stage in English Education is considered to be from the age of 3 to 5. (Not to be confused with Foundation GCSE exams at 16!) This covers the years when a child might go to a nursery through to the end of the reception...

Counting up to 5: Cheeky Gorillas

This is a sample sets of worksheets in pdf format to give you an idea of the range of material available, but don’t forget, it is just as easy to sign up for a three day free trial and browse and use everything that we have for your child. Here...

What's new: Using 2D shape (2)

A great set of four worksheets helping with recognising rectangles, triangles and circles. It's a help to have some templates of these shapes handy to draw round and create fun pictures of your own. The robot on page 4 is a good example of what can be produced. Talk about...

Resource of the week: Maths Worksheet, Using the plus sign

Apart from the equals sign, the plus sign is the first maths sign that most children come across, but they will have carried out a lot of mental addition and used the term well before coming across the sign. It is introduced here, but we are keeping to small numbers...

What's new: Counting in whole tens

When children are very confident with counting in ones and they have also worked with larger numbers in the teens, they can be introduced to counting up in whole tens. At first this will be up to 100. These four worksheets give plenty of practice at writing the whole tens...