Maths investigation: How many ways of making 100?

It's your turn to make up the sums! How many ways can you make 100 just using the numbers shown on the page, which are all multiples of 10. Sammy Snail has two extra rules for this investigation: 1. You must use 3 of the numbers. 2. But the numbers...

What is expected in Year 1?

Whilst we are all aware that children learn at different rates, there are, nevertheless guidelines as to what maths children should be expected to do at different ages. These guidelines are part of the Primary Framework for Mathematics. The list can prove useful in seeing how well your child is...

How do you say 2010?

How are you saying the new year 2010? There seems to be some debate about this. Some are saying ‘two thousand and ten’ whilst others are saying ‘twenty ten’. ‘Twenty ten’ is similar to the last century when we said dates such as 1990 as ‘nineteen ninety’ but few people...

What's New: Counting money 1p, 2p and 5p coins

This is the second in our series of counting money worksheets. There are four pages which look at counting 1p, 2p and 5p coins. Some of the questions are fairly open ended (eg colour coins that make 10p) as well as drawing more coins to make totals. When counting a...

Time worksheets: Read the time to the quarter hour

We've had several requests recently for some worksheets on time so, here they are! To start with we have published four sets on reading the time to the quarter hour. This can be quite tricky when converting times such as 3:45 to a quarter to four. You may also notice...

Resource of the Week: Comparing size

This is taken from our range of colourful resources for our members which looks at all aspects of shape and measurement for young children.  At this age, measurement is about comparisons between things and standard units of measurement such as centimetres are not introduced until much later. So we begin...