Year 3 Maths Programme: Week 36

The final week of our Year 3 Maths Programme! This week we start by checking some of the skills that children should have acquired during this year. They include: Rounding to the nearest hundred; remembering that if the number ends in 50 to round up to the next whole hundered....

New alphabetical order worksheets

New alphabet worksheets This week we have published a great set of worksheets on alphabetical order. Most of us probably can’t remember a time when we did not know the alphabet. Whilst it is just a collection of letters it is vitally important, as these letters form the building blocks...

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...