Mental Arithmetic for Years 4, 5 and 6

This week the mental arithmetic questions for Year 4 take a quick look at the properties of shape, with questions such as, 'How many sides does a hexagon have?' as well as lines of symmetry. The last three questions are quite tricky in that they ask for the answers to...

New Reading Assessment

If your child is in year 1 then you may well have heard about the new reading assessment that will be carried out during June of this year. It is called the Phonic Screening Check Assessment. This is certainly nothing to worry about as it is designed to see if...

Multiplication and division concepts for year 4

Mental multiplication and division Multiplying. Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 are fundamental ideas in arithmetic. These ideas will eventually be used in work involving  negative numbers, positive numbers, decimals and percentages, so it is very important to master them early on. Never say 'to multiply by ten we add...

Maths SAT Paper A 2011 Question 11 with answers

Question 11 is all about the 'more than' and 'less than' signs and is a nice easy two marks if these signs are understood. The answers are: < > = > Award 2 marks for all four symbols correct. If the answer is incorrect, award one mark for three out...

Years 4, 5 and 6 mental arithmetic: sets 63 and 64

This week our Year 4 mental arithmetic questions look at multiples, word problems and odd and even numbers. Children should be familiar with multiples and be able to recognise multiples of numbers that are found in the 'times tables' e.g. multiples of 4 are 8, 12, 16, 20 etc. One...

Putting amounts of money in order

Here is another set of worksheets to add to our growing selection of pages on money for Year 2. By the end of year 2 children should be confident with comparing 2-digit numbers and say which is larger/smaller. This set of worksheets takes this a step further by asking them...