Year 2 maths challenge: Finding quarters

Once children are really familiar with halves they can be introduced to quarters in a practical situation. There are two different aspects to this: a. dividing a number of objects into 4 (eg 20 sweets between 4 girls) b. dividing one whole one into 4 (eg a bar of chocolate...

Year 2 maths resources: week 3

We move onto Block B of the planning and a set of resources aimed at securing number facts and understanding shape. This week's programme includes printable pages on: solving problems involving addition deriving and recalling addition facts deriving and recalling multiplication facts for the 2 and 5 times tables investigating...

Year 2 measurement worksheets: Reading scales

This week we have published two more Year 2 measurement worksheets on reading scales. This time we look at capacity and reading how much a container holds which has a scale going up in tens. However, the divisions are only labelled on every other one, so the ability to count...

Year 2 maths resources: Week 2

Already we are into week 2 of our Year 2 resources and a brand new set of Brainy Targets for the week. A little bit harder this week, now the rustiness of the summer holidays has past. This week our activities are designed to help with: Reading and writing 2-digit...

Hands up or down?

In the classroom there seem to be two types of child: one type that always has a hand up to answer a question; and the other type that avoids eye contact and doesn't answer out loud. Which type is your child? For teachers, it is much easier for the lesson...

Fascinating dates!

Coming up tomorrow is another of those fascinating dates that mathematicians love. No, not the kind of date you have with your boy/girl friend, but the date, date type. At the sixth second of the seventh minute of the eighth hour of October 2010 the date will be: 06.07.08.09.10 or...