What's New: Multiplication and money

A great way to practice the 2x, 5x and 10x tables is with 2p, 5p and 10p coins. If you can gather together a set of ten of each this makes for a really good practical resource with endless questions: e.g. I have six 5p coins, how much do I...

Year 1 Maths Challenge: Boxes and cubes

We have been adding some excellent resources to the Year 1 section over the last few weeks, especially in our 'Challenges' section. These challenges are like the investigations carried out in schools and are often of the 'how many different ways? style of question. The idea is to encourage logical...

Year 1 Addition: Make 10 (loops)

Here is a great little game to help with year 1 addition of numbers which make 10. Play this game with a partner. It's probably best to start with the easier grid. Decide who is to go first. The first player looks at the numbers in the grid and finds...

What's New: Addition questions

This is the third in our sequence of maths worksheets which look at the vocabulary used when asking questions. This week we are looking at addition. The four worksheets cover the following ways of asking addition questions: 9 add 3 add 3 to 9 9 plus 3 what is the...

Printable Maths Game: Nim

Maths is all about patterns and sequences and this is very apparent when playing maths games. A good example of this is a simplified version of the ancient game of Nim. It is straightforward to play but needs a definite strategy to ensure that you win! Can you work out...

Resource of the Week: Counting on in tens

Here are four great maths worksheets for those children who are confident with counting in ones and are ready to move on to counting up in tens from a teen number and then any 2-digit number. Whilst the four pages concentrate on the same skill, they are all very different....