Happy Christmas from URBrainy

I hope you are enjoying the lead up to Christmas this year. To help get into the spirit we are launching a special offer here at URBrainy. You can get 18 months for the price of 12! That's a whole 6 months extra free on our already discounted yearly rate....

Year 4 Pictograms

Year 4 is an important year for children to make progress with collecting, sorting and interpreting data and now is a good time to have a little break from Christmas activities and try a little Handling Data. By the end of Year 4 children should be able to construct pictograms...

Standard method of short multiplication

By the end of year 4 children should be well on the way to using the standard method of short multiplication. Earlier methods are aimed at developing understanding of what is happening, but can, on occasions, lead to confusion. It is important that children learn one standard method and keep...

Multiplying by 5 mentally.

There are all sorts of techniques which children can learn to help them with mental arithmetic. One of them is to able to multiply a 2-digit number by 5. This can be done in the traditional method similar to the written method but holding parts of the answer in your...

Christmas Maths Worksheets

As the Autumn term draws to an end teachers and children begin to think about Christmas activities. With Carols to be learned, Christmas Plays to be practised, rooms to be decorated, parties to be arranged etc., this is an incredibly busy time. On top of this there are parents’ evenings...

Christmas tree maths worksheets

Here we have two sets of worksheets on adding up the cost of buying Christmas tree decorations. The first set deals with multiples of 10p and is therefore much easier. Perhaps the hardest part is matching the images to the cost and some children will find it helpful to make...