Year 2 maths resources: Week 10

For teachers wishing to supplement their resources or for parents who want to reinforce the work done at school, what better place to come than URBrainy? This week we have searched through all our Year 2 resources to make a great pack suitable for the Primary Framework planning for Block...

Counting back crossing the tens boundary

Once children have shown that they can count up to 20 or so it is often presumed that they are then OK counting up and down with larger numbers. This may well not be the case and children do need plenty of practice counting on and back, especially when this...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 9

We have gathered together a great selection of printable resources this week, to match the planning for Block D, Unit 1 Week 2. We are targeting: solving problems involving money addition of a single digit to 2-digits, completing number sentences subtracting 9 from a 2-digit number reading the time to...

Addition challenge

This week we are publishing a slightly different challenge.  A number sentence is presented with most of the digits missing and the challenge is to complete the number sentence correctly as many different ways as possible. In fact there are a limited number of solutions. The units digit has to...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 8

For those of you who like to have regular mental arithmetic practice at your fingertips then our weekly programme is ideal. Each week we publish four sets of ten mental arithmetic questions aimed directly at the programme of study that UK schools use in Year 2. This week the mental...

Addition helping subtraction

Most of the subtractions we ever do, we do 'in our heads', not on paper. Even if we use a calculator we should do a quick mental approximate answer to check that we haven't pressed the wrong keys. But, when we subtract 'in our heads' we frequently just add! For...