Year 5 mental subtraction

[caption id="attachment_8622" align="alignleft" width="150"] subtract mentally large numbers[/caption] Year 5 mental subtraction A key aspect of subtraction in year 5 is to, ‘subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers’. Of course, there comes a point where it is much more sensible to use written methods of subtraction, but it is...

Christmas Maths worksheets

[caption id="attachment_4973" align="alignleft" width="212"] christmas maths worksheets[/caption] An early Christmas present: free Christmas Maths worksheets Less than two weeks to go to Christmas and there doesn’t seem to be much time left to do anything! To help during this busy period, as well as adding to the fun, we are...

Reading thermometers

Reading thermometers in Year 2 and 4 For the first time reading thermometers has been introduced for children in year 2. Now, as counting back beyond zero is not introduced until year 4 it is important to keep temperature measurements at zero or above for children in year 2. We...

Adverbial phrases

Adverbial phrases The new primary curriculum talks quite a lot about adverbs, fronted adverbials, adverbials of time and so on; a part of English grammar which has not been emphasised over the last 30 years. To meet the new requirements we are now building a substantial set of resources on...

New Number Games for Year 1

New Number Games for Year 1 With great excitement we are pleased to announce the publication of our latest set of maths games and the really good news is that they are also available as an app for ipad users! While the current games on the site require Adobe Flash...

Place value cards and tables squares

[caption id="attachment_8591" align="alignleft" width="150"] Place value cards and tables squares[/caption] Place value cards and tables squares Place value cards are a really valuable resource. With nine cards printed with multiples of 1000 from 1000 to 9000; nine with multiples of 100 from 100 to 900; nine with multiples of 10...