Year 3 maths worksheets: reading scales

Here we have another set of worksheets which looks at reading scales correctly. This might seem to be a very easy task, but, in fact it is one that many children find tricky, especially as they have to be able to count up in tens, fifties etc. The rulers are...

Year 3 weekly programme: week 17

Nearly half way through the year 3 weekly programme for maths and things are getting quite tricky! An important part of this year is to establish understanding of money written as pounds or pence and to convert between them. Part of this is to realise that when writing in pounds...

Adding two 4-digit numbers

Once children have been shown the standard written method for addition they need plenty of practice in order for it to become 'second nature'. This set of worksheets introduces the addition of two 4-digit numbers using the following standard method: The method is to add the units first, put the...

Year 3 weekly programme: week 16

Quite a challenging week ahead with some quite tricky pages. perhaps the hardest is the fraction page where it asks for halves, thirds, fifths and tenths of numbers. An important part of this is to see a fraction as a division e.g. to find 1/4 of a number divide the...

Counting up to 20 in Year 1

It is very easy to assume that children can count, but it is something that does need practice. Rhymes such as 'One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive....' are really helpful when beginning to learn to count but there are less of these when it comes...

Year 3 weekly programme: Week 15

Plenty of hard work in this week's programme as this is an important time of year when real progress can be made with maths. Remember that this programme is a basic reinforcement of the work covered in Year 3 and in any one week not all the pages need to...