Year 4 and 5: Order Numbers

Progressing from the work in Year 3 on ordering numbers under 1,000, in Year 4 the task is to order numbers under 10,000. Using the same principles with base 10 blocks and place value grids, zeros are important as place holders.In Year 5 children continue to build on previous knowledge,...

Year 3: Order Numbers

We continue the number theme with our new resources for Year 3, publishing three new sets of worksheets on ordering numbers under 1,000. Base 10 blocks and place value grids are used to help with the understanding of ordering from smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest. Other terms such...

Year 2 Compare Objects

An important part of number work in Year 2 is to compare objects, stating which quantity has more. There are various terms which children should use, including, ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’, ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. Probably the hardest part of this work is using the ‘greater than’...

Reception: Counting

The aim at the start of the Reception period is to make sure that children can say the number names, ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’. Once this is achieved they can match the verbal number name to quantities. These quantities could be real-life e.g. counters, or images on paper. We already...

Year 1 Counting From a Larger Group

Our latest resources concentrate on just one aspect of counting. Counting may seem to be a straightforward task, but it does involve a number of steps. One of these steps is counting from a larger group. This involves counting a number of objects from a larger group e.g. counting four...

Early Reception: Count up to 3

Children will need plenty of opportunities to represent numbers up to 3, with much of this work being done with objects. As they count it is a good idea to touch each object in turn. Later the number of objects can be matched to cards. In the same way, images...