Mental arithmetic questions for years 4, 5 and 6

This week's mental arithmetic questions for Year 4 include two tricky terms which many children do not know. Firstly, the term quotient, which can be thought of as the answer to a division question, or the number obtained by dividing one number by another. So, in 15 divided by 3...

Maths SAT Paper A 2011 Questions and answers 1 and 2

The first two questions are a gentle introduction to the paper, but there is still plenty of scope for children to misinterpret the questions or make silly calculating errors and lose valuable marks. The first question is testing knowledge of odd and even numbers, the term ‘greater than’ and a...

Mental Arithmetic for Years 4, 5 and 6: Sets 39 and 40

Two more sets of 10 mental arithmetic questions for each of the Year 4, 5 and 6 age groups. The year 4 questions start by looking at time, testing children's knowledge of how many seconds there are in a minute, how many days in a week or month and how...

Year 3 maths worksheet: Missing digits in subtraction sentences

Here we have a set of four pages which look more closely at the number patterns involved with subtracting a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number. This is probably best suited to year 3 children who have a good knowledge of subtracting small numbers from 2-digit numbers. Only part of...

Mental Arithmetic for Years 4, 5 and 6: Sets 37 and 38

We continue to roll out our programme of mental arithmetic questions for years 4, 5 and 6 with the latest two sets of questions. The Year 4 questions are rather a mixed bag, including questions on rounding, odd and even and addition. There are also two questions using the term...

Year 2 challenge: totals with three dice

Here is a nice little challenge for year 2 children which will help both with adding three small numbers and working in a well organised, methodical way. The challenge is to find as many different ways that a total of 12 can be made with three dice. It should be...