Year 4 reasoning about rounding

Year 4 reasoning about rounding We have a great many reasoning maths worksheets in Year 4 and have just published a further set on rounding. Rather than just asking for a particular number to round, the questions give rise to several possible answers. For example: I have two different numbers....

Using calculators

Using calculators The calculator is a powerful tool and has an important part to play in school maths, even though it is frowned upon by the current curriculum writers. In the primary years the purpose of a calculator is not as a tool for getting a quick answer, as children...

Year 3 Bar Modelling: Adding

Year 3 Bar Modelling: Adding Bar modelling is becoming increasingly popular in schools as a way to represent an abstract calculation. In these pages the bar model approach can be used to help find the third number to make a total of 100. There are various ways children might approach...

Year 2 Measurement of Length

Year 2 Measurement of Length Comparing lengths is the topic for this week’s new Year 2 Measurement worksheets. A combination of using rulers on the page, comparing lengths using longest/shortest and understanding the more than/less than signs combine to make interesting and lively pages. This is a great collection of...

Year 1 One more and one less

Year 1 One more and one less A great emphasis is made in Year 1 on children being able to find one more and one less than a number. In our latest set of worksheets numbers are displayed in different ways; by spots on dice, in words and in numbers,...

Grammar: Passive and active voice

Grammar: Passive and active voice This sounds more complicated than it really is. In a passive sentence what would usually be the object of the sentence is turned into the subject. For example, here is a sentence: Sam hit the ball. The subject is Sam and the object is the...