Year 1 Reasoning

Year 1 Reasoning One of my favourite types of activity: using a selection of number cards to answer ‘How many ways can you make ….. ?’ style questions. An important part of this is for children to describe in their own words what they are doing, how they can be...

Shape and Measures in Reception

Shape and Measures in Reception We have just added a great selection of bright and colourful worksheets on Shape and Measures for Later Reception. These include matching 3-D shapes, bigger/biggest, longer/shorter and empty/full. Of course, the best way for children to understand these concepts is through practical activities and we...

Written methods of calculating in Year 3

Written methods of calculating in Year 3 As we like to concentrate on just one aspect of maths for each set of worksheets most of our calculation pages are found in the separate categories of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. However, it is important that children can switch quickly from...

Travelling by train to a holiday

Travelling by train to a holiday Earlier this year I was sitting in one of my favourite spots, watching the trains move to and from St Ives, across the magnificent Cornish beaches, when it occurred to me that this was an excellent starting point for some writing. So here it...

KS2 SAT Booster: rounding

KS2 SAT Booster: Rounding Rounding has been a very popular subject ever since the KS2 Maths SATs started all those years ago, and the subject is still cropping up in recent papers. The examiners try to make it hard by asking for the same number to be rounded to the...

Year 4 division tables

Year 4 division tables Whilst we are all used to the traditional way of learning times tables it is important to be able to rapidly adapt the known information to solve number problems. For example, children may learn that 7 x 6 = 42 but they should be just as...