Addition in Year 4

There are no specific targets for mental addition in Year 4 but that does not mean to say that the topic can be ignored. As children start to add 4-digit numbers using written methods it is vital that the skills and knowledge learned in previous years are continuously reinforced. For...

Addition in Year 3

Mental addition in Year 3 gets quite a lot harder and it will be important to revise the skills and knowledge learned in Year 2 before moving on to new targets:Three key targets are:Add a 3-digit number and ones eg 400 + 5 =Add a 3-digit number and tens eg...

Addition in Year 2

More work will be done to ensure that children have a secure knowledge of addition facts to 20. This will then be used to work with numbers up to 100.The key objectives that will be taught are:Adding numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:a two-digit number and onesa...

Addition in Year 1

Most of the addition work in Year 1 will deal with numbers which have a total of up to 20. At first children will be taught to add two 1-digit numbers, moving on later to adding a 1-digit number and a 2-digit number with totals up to 20. These numbers...

Year 3: Four Rules

Almost all of our resources keep to just one concept per set of pages. For example, mental addition of 9 would cover this skill alone. Sometimes, however, it is good for children to have to work on different skills on the same page and our Four Rules pages help with...

Year 3 Money

We have just published some tricky problem solving pages involving money; just right for Year 3. The questions involve two steps to reach the correct answer. Step 1 is to find how much has been spent. The second step is to find items that add up to that amount. Look...