Year 3 weekly programme: week 35

The penultimate in our Year 3 Maths programme which starts with some tricky mental arithmetic. By this stage children should have a variety of mental strategies that they can use to calculate quickly and efficiently. The week's work continues with some work on estimating numbers on a number line.To make...

Year 3 weekly programme: week 34

There is some quite tricky maths involved in this week's Year 3 programme and there are some good examples of how answers can be found in a variety of ways. The pages on finding the number half way between two other numbers is a good example of this. One way...

Year 2 Fractions

Fractions We have just reorganised our Year 2 fractions worksheets so that they can all be found under one heading: ‘Fractions’. Fractions often prove difficult for older children so it is very important to lay sound foundations as early as possible. A vital part of this is recognising that one...

Year 3 weekly programme: week 33

This week is a consolidation of the work carried out in Week 32. Time is often a problem for children and it is well worth taking some time to look at timetables; these can usually be found in holiday magazines, rail and bus timetables. When working out how long a...

Year 3 maths programme: week 32

This week's programme covers a wide range of  maths, starting with some straightforward addition of 2-digit numbers. Actually, this is hard and children need to be able to use a number of different strategies to complete these quickly. For example, we usually add the tens first when adding mentally, the...

Homonyms

Homonyms A homonym is a word which shares the same spelling and the same pronunciation as another word, but has a different meaning. They are another case of the weird and wonderful world of the English language, which makes it so much fun, yet so tricky to learn. For example...