Year 3: Understanding inverse operations

Understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction is a vital part of maths in Year 3. Our latest sets of worksheets look at this in detail, with the help of part-whole models and bar models. An important part of this to point out to children is that there are two...

Year 2: Missing number problems

Some tricky number problems are the subject of our new Year 2 worksheets. These will test children’s comprehension, as well as their addition and subtraction skills. To reach a correct answer each question involves a subtraction followed by an addition. Finding what to do is probably the hardest part of...

Year 1: Subtraction

Our new resources for Year 1 concentrate on early subtraction; in particular taking away with the help of diagrams and pictures. The questions are in the form of short stories and do not use the subtraction symbol. Later children will be able to write these as number sentences. These pages...

Place Value in Year 6

By Year 6 the targets are challenging, with children needing to be able to read and write numbers from 1 hundredth to 10 million in both words and digits. That’s 0.01 to 10,000,000. Thousandths may also be introduced (0.001). They should be able to recognise the value of digits within...

Place Value in Year 5

Place Value: tenths and hundredths Teaching understanding of place value is still important in Year 5, looking at very large numbers and very small numbers. Children will be expected to understand one tenth and one hundredth and how both 10 tenths and 100 hundredths can be regrouped into 1 one....

Place Value in Year 4

Progress in Year 4 is as expected, working with 4-digit numbers rather than just 3-digit numbers. Children should recognise the place value of each digit in 4-digit numbers and partition 4-digit numbers in various ways. They should know that 10 hundreds are equivalent to 1 thousand and that 1,000 is...