Year 1 Addition

The importance of understanding number and addition at the beginning of Year 1 cannot be underestimated, particularly at this time when most children coming into Year 1 have missed the last term of reception. It is important, therefore, to have plenty of simple addition activities to encourage knowledge of number...

Year 4 Partitioning and Place Value

Part-whole models are used to help children to see the relationship between a number and its component parts.For example: 37 can be made up of 30 and 7It can also be made up in other ways, such as 27 and 10 or 20 and 17. The key to working successfully...

Year 5 Solving Problems and Investigating

Year 5 Solving Problems and Investigating The skills needed to solve mathematical problems and investigations are a crucial part of the primary maths curriculum. They are skills that might not arise naturally from the day-today teaching of maths and need time devoted to them. That is why we have always...

Year 6 Subtraction On-screen activities

Year 6 Subtraction On-screen Activities On-screen activities are superb for practising mental arithmetic skills and we have just published three new activities for Year 6:Mental skills form the basis for all methods of written subtraction, but more than this, even when working with large numbers it can be more efficient...

Year 5 Order and Compare Numbers

Year 5 Order and Compare NumbersChildren in Year 5 are expected to be able to read, write and compare numbers up to a million, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done with smaller numbers before this can be achieved. We have just published two new...

Year 3: Understanding Multiplication

Year 3: Understanding MultiplicationIt is always worth recapping concepts that children have come across before and in Year 3, the understanding of making and adding equal groups is important in the context of multiplication. We have just added a new set of worksheets asking children to match representations to times...