Resource of the Week: Counting on 3, 4, 5 or 6

We usually think of counting on as being counting in ones, but the Primary Framework expects children to be able to count on in larger steps. These four worksheets concentrate on counting on 3, 4, 5 or 6 from a single digit. Your children will probably be confident enough to...

Year 2 Challenge: 3 cards to make 12

This is a nifty little investigation to help with addition of three  single digit numbers as well as logical thinking. Ten cards are shown, with the numbers from zero to nine. The task is simple, find three cards that make a total of 12. (eg 7 + 3 + 2)....

Year 2 maths worksheets: Addition how many ways?

Here we have a maths investigation on addition, suitable for year 2. There are four numbers shown. The task is to choose any three numbers and add them up. Each number can be used up to 3 times, but the total sum must not include more than 3 numbers. So...

What's New: Number patterns

Recognising and continuing number patterns is the earliest stage of algebra, but the name isn't used until much later, usually at High School. The easier patterns are counting on in ones and twos, but these pages also include counting on and back in threes, fives and tens. If children have...

Resource of the Week: Recognising 2-D shape

Don't forget that we have some great pages which will help with recognising 2-D shapes. Your child should be able to recognise four basic shapes: circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. These maths worksheets have plenty of interesting pictures just made up of these shapes. Good extension work would be to...

Telling the Time

Time has always been a tricky subject for many children and is an area of maths often taught better at home than in the classroom. It is also our most requested area for more worksheets by parents. Over the past few days we have added a number of time resources...