Year 2 maths resources: Week 33

We are moving towards the end of the school weekly planning as we publish Week 33, which is the last for the Primary Framework planning for Block D, Unit 3. As always we have 40 mental arithmetic questions and it cannot be repeated often enough that if children are to...

Year 4 Addition Games

We are very excited to release the first set in a series of year 4 mental maths games. We have just added 27 great new mental maths games on addition for children aged between 8 and 9 (that's year 4 in the UK).  To make it a little easier to...

Year 2 Maths Challenge: Hexagon Addition

This investigation  is a development of the caterpillar investigation. The shortest and longest routes can be found, but children also need to be confident enough to add several single digit numbers together, making it suitable for around the end of Year 2 and Year 3. The initial task of finding...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 32

It's time for some real consolidation of the work covered so far in Year 2 as we publish our latest set of resources for the Primary Framework weekly planning. Our mental arithmetic pages cover addition, subtraction, time, money and number patterns. We also have another set of addition number grids,...

Maths board game: Four Star

Four star is a game for two people which needs two sets of four differently coloured counters and a copy of the Four Star board. Each player has four counters. The aim of the game is to get the four counters in a straight line. The player going first places...

New Year 3 Maths Games

Great news! We have just launched our next set of fantastic maths games and activities for year 3. There are now four new categories, with over 30 separate activities. The important point about these games is that each one focuses on one key mathematical concept, which can be practised time...