Division in Year 2

Teaching division in Year 2 continues with the idea of sharing equally. It is important to use hands-on materials to provide concrete examples for children to visualise division problems; for example, sharing numbers of objects (counters, cubes etc) into equal groups. We have plenty of pages to encourage this before...

KS2 SATs Booster

Another new resource to help with SATs is a set of worksheets on multiplying large numbers by 1,000 (5C6b). This is also a regular topic on the SAT Papers and well worth revising. These are just a small part of an amazing collection of resources to ensure children reach the...

Year 6: Percentages

We also look further at percentages in our latest Year 6 pages. Always a popular topic in the KS2 SATs, the questions can be quite tricky. Last year’s paper had a question where percentages of different products are given, together with the total number of products and children are asked...

Year 5: Percentages as Decimals

Understanding the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages is an important part of work in Year 5. It might seem quite tricky, but the key to understanding can be shown as: If one whole one is split into ten equal parts then: each part is 0.1 of the whole one...

Year 4: Tenths as Fractions

In Year 4 children will look at tenths, both as a decimal and as a fraction. Dividing shapes into 10 equal parts and then colouring a number of the parts is an excellent way to illustrate tenths. Our latest sets of worksheets look at tenths as fractions and include images...

Year 3: Use Scales

A key skill in measurement in Year 3 is for children to be able to use and understand scales. Number lines are a great help with this. Working out what the interval gaps are on number lines gives children plenty of practice ensuring they are better able to read scales...