Year 5: Addition and Subtraction Pyramids

Completing pyramids of numbers where each number is the sum of the two numbers below is a different way of providing written addition and subtraction for children. They can use their knowledge of inverse operations to help decide whether to add or subtract to complete the pyramid. These new pages...

Year 6: Large Numbers

There is plenty of work to do to ensure that children are confident with working with numbers in the millions. Part of this is to learn how the numbers are said, for example 2,345 is read as, “two thousand, three hundred and forty-five” rather than, “two-three-four-five”. Another important idea to...

English: Letterlocking

Introducing the URBrainy letterlocking letter paper! Check out our brand new ingenious letter papers! We have been inspired by a technique called ‘letterlocking’ and have produced a number of letter papers complete with images of cats, dogs, butterflies, dinosaurs, sea creatures, farm animals, the Maths Rats and of course Tommy...

URBrainy MTC Shortlisted for Prestigious 2025 Teach Awards

URBrainy is proud to announce that its Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) tool, available at https://urbrainy.com/mtc, has been officially shortlisted for the 2025 Teach Awards, recognising outstanding contributions to education and digital learning.Designed to support UK primary schools in preparing pupils for the statutory Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check, URBrainy’s MTC...

On-screen Practice in Year 6 for Number and Place Value

Many of the latest developments in teaching maths have originated in Asia including Singapore and Shanghai, where children generally make exceptional progress. Part of this approach is ‘same day intervention’. One of the aims of same day intervention is to help those children who have not yet fully grasped aspects...

On-screen Practice in Year 5 for Number and Place Value

Mental arithmetic becomes much harder as the numbers become bigger, partly because it is much harder to hold a 5 or 6-digit number ‘in your head’ whilst working with it. We have a great selection of on-screen activities which give unlimited practice, are computer marked and also have printable certificates...