Achieving level 2 - Shape

To achieve level 2 children need to be well acquainted with both 2-D and 3-D shapes. This includes: Identifying and describing 2-D shapes such as squares, triangles, circles, pentagons and hexagons. They will be able to talk about how the number of sides and corners helps to identify the shapes....

Year 2 Maths Challenge: 10p change

This is a really good maths challenge or investigation, suitable for children towards the end of Year 2 or beginning of Year 3, when children have gained confidence in counting up to ten and adding small numbers together. It would be very helpful to have some plastic coins or even...

Year 2 Handling Data: Weather chart

Here we have quite an advanced weather chart for children in Year 2 to get to grips with. It shows the weather for March in the form of a chart with images to show the different types of weather. It is not easy to find suitable data for young children...

Year 2 maths resources: week 28

I know that a lot of home schoolers are finding these weekly sets of worksheets really useful as they can be fully matched to the Primary Framework for Maths. So here we go with week 28, well into the Summer Term. This week we have activities on: working logically to...

Maths investigation: Not 3 in a row

This is a simple little investigation which can prove to be quite tricky. On a 3 by 3 grid how many counters can be placed without getting three in a row? You can have a single counter in a row or two, but not three. Are there different arrangements of...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 27

We are well into the summer term now and the work expected of 6/7 year olds in year 2 is quite challenging. To help them we have a great selection of our resources which match the Primary Framework for Maths for Block B, Unit 3, including four more sets of...