Year 4 Intelligent practice

Year 4 Intelligent practice Intelligent practice is a feature of mathematics which is growing in popularity. A key aspect of this is to provide activities and questions so that, rather than just reproducing one mechanical process children are encouraged to think about the relationships between numbers. With each of these...

Money and coins in Year 1

Money and coins in Year 1 Working with coins in practical contexts is both an effective way to become confident with money, but also helps with addition and subtraction. One of the best resources in a classroom or at home is a collection of real coins or plastic coins. At...

Year 6 Division activities

Year 6 Division activities If you are looking for material which really consolidates division then our latest published games for year 6 will be just the job. The four games practice activities are: Giving a remainder as a whole number Giving a remainder as a fraction Giving a quotient as...

Estimating addition in Year 4

Estimating addition in Year 4 When carrying out any written calculation it is well worth carrying out a quick mental estimation first and then using this estimation to check that the answer, once worked out, is sensible. It is surprising how often a silly answer goes unchecked because an estimation...

Free Christmas worksheets

Free Christmas worksheets After all these tricky fractions and decimal pages why not take a more relaxed look at our free Christmas worksheets? There are plenty of them and are ideal for fitting around time spent rehearsing Christmas carols, nativity plays etc. Our English resources include two crosswords, one with...

Compound words

In the English language words, especially adjectives and nouns, are frequently put together to form new words. Often this begins by using a hyphen between the two words but over a period of time the hyphen tends to be dropped and the two words are joined to make one new...