Division in Year 1

The work done on division in Year 1 is mainly of a practical nature, making equal groups from a given number of objects and sharing using 1:1 correspondence. Later pictorial representations can be used, and this is where our Year 1 division activities are really useful. Sharing into equal groups...

Division in Year 2

Teaching division in Year 2 continues with the idea of sharing equally. It is important to use hands-on materials to provide concrete examples for children to visualise division problems; for example, sharing numbers of objects (counters, cubes etc) into equal groups. We have plenty of pages to encourage this before...

Multiplication in Year 1

Children will begin with counting in twos, often using things that come in pairs, such as socks, shoes etc. Later they will start counting in 5s and 10s. Some of the language of multiplication will be introduced, including ‘groups of’, but not the multiplication sign. A combination of high-quality worksheets...

Multiplication in Year 2

A key part of multiplication at the start of Year 2 is to make sure that children understand the connection between repeated addition and multiplication. Children can find the answer to a multiplication by adding equal groups. Their ability to count in twos, fives and tens will help enormously.The multiplication...

Multiplication in Year 3

In Year 2 children will have learnt the 10 times table and in Year 3 they will use this knowledge to work with greater multiples of 10. For instance, 16 × 10 or 24 × 10. They will also explore multiplying multiples of ten such as 3 × 50 or...

Multiplication in Year 4

There is one very straight forward target for children in Year 4 which will dominate much of the work carried out during the year. It is simply:4C6a Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12.So, what does this mean? Quite simply, if asked a question...