Making addition number stories

One of the most important skills a parent can give to their child is the ability to listen and respond. Making up short stories together is a great way to do this. It is also important do do this in mathematics. By spending time together building up a story, your...

Year 3 weekly programme: Week 13

The start of a new term and the beginning of our next set of weekly worksheets for Year 3. Each week during this term we will be publishing a collection, or programme, of worksheets which can be used to re-inforce the work done in school. Typically there are between 14...

Mental arithmetic for years 4, 5 and 6: sets 27 and 28

Here are our next sets of mental arithmetic questions for years 4, 5 and 6. Each set has ten questions and we publish two per week for each year. The year 4 questions concentrate on money and measurement and there are also a couple of negative number problems. Some children...

Mental arithmetic for years 4, 5 and 6

At the start of the new term we are off again on our weekly sets of mental arithmetic questions for years 4, 5 and 6. The year 4 sets look at writing numbers in figures, place value, and finding more than and less than numbers. The more than and less...

Written method of subtracting money

Several of our members have requested more written subtraction pages and here we have a new set which looks at subtracting money. The key to success here is to lay the question out in a vertical form, making sure that the decimal points line up under each other and that...

Year 3 maths worksheets: addition number sentences

Here is a slightly different way at looking at addition of small numbers, suitable for children in year 3. The answer is 17, what could the two whole numbers be to make this total? Encourage working in a logical, well organised way so that children know whether they have got...