Year 2 maths worksheets: reading 3-digit numbers

An abacus is an excellent way to help children realise the importance of place value. This week we have published two sets of year 2 maths worksheets on the abacus. The first asks children to read the numbers from the abacus and the second asks for an abacus to be...

Year 2 Maths Challenge: Four darts

Here is a nice little maths challenge for Year 2 (aged 6/7) which also gives practice with adding fives and tens. You can only score 5 or 10 on the dartboard, but how many different totals can you get by throwing 4 darts? To begin with the rule states that...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 6

Some excellent stuff coming over the next two weeks as we concentrate on Measurement and Handling Data.  In week 6 we have some great ideas for sorting using dominoes. There are a huge range of ways of using dominoes to count, sort, match etc and are well worth having as...

Year 2 maths resources: Subtract multiples of ten

Here we have some great pages for practising subtracting multiples of 10. Children who have learnt their addition of single digit facts should find these straightforward. It is interesting to ask ourselves how we actually go about answering questions such as these in our heads. Some we just seem to...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 5

Don't forget that each of our weekly maths resources for Year 2 contains four great sets of mental arithmetic questions. Also this week are superb worksheets on: solving problems involving shape and money recalling addition facts recalling multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables visualising 3D shapes...

More number pattern worksheets; counting up and down

Here we have another set of maths worksheets on number patterns which is harder than the first published in our Year 2 Counting section. These pages  look at counting up and down in twos, threes, fives and tens and are not restricted to those numbers found in the 'times tables'....