New year 3 weekly maths programme

After many requests we are pleased to announce the start of our Year 3 weekly programme. During the course of each of the next three terms we will be publishing 12 weeks of selected worksheets covering the full range of the maths curriculum. These have proved to be tremendously popular...

Year 4: Using and Applying Maths

Here we have a quick look at Using and Applying Maths in year 4. This involves children using the maths they know to solve problems and, in turn, learn more about maths itself. 1. Choose appropriate methods This section is concerned with getting children to make decisions about: Which operation...

Ordinal Numbers: Year 1 Word Search

Here is another page to add to our wet break/holiday activities section. It is a word search which looks at the ordinal numbers from first to tenth and is probably best suited to Years 1/2. It can also be used as an activity sheet to help with spellings. Once children...

Year 4 Challenge: Crazy addition

This is a nice little investigation for children who are familiar with the layout for standard written addition. For this investigation you need a set of 0 - 9 cards. The task is to use any six of the cards to make the blank sum correct. Only one number can...

Year 4: Time

Time Children should understand and be able to use the following vocabulary: Sunday to Saturday, January to December, Spring to Winter. Day, week, fortnight, month, season, year, leap year, century, millennium, morning, afternoon, evening, night, midnight, noon, hour, minute, second, today, yesterday, tomorrow, weekend, a.m., p.m., how long ago, how...

Multiply 3-digit numbers by 2, 5 and 10

Plenty of practice is needed for children to really get to grips with the written multiplication. With written multiplication there are two distinct methods, the long and the short! Most schools tend to teach the long method first as it is clearer to show exactly what is happening, but it...