Reasoning in Year 2

Reasoning is a key part in the Year 2 curriculum. Whilst many of our resources encourage reasoning and problem solving, we also have a separate category, organized into 6 categories, as follows: Money and shopping ‘How many ways investigations’ Number challenges Further challenges and investigations Word problems Games In Year...

Reasoning in Year 1

We pride ourselves on having a collection of really excellent resources for children in Year 1. There is plenty to challenge children's mathematical thinking and encourage them to work in a logical and methodical way. To make it easier to find the type of resource you are looking for we...

Booster Help for the KS2 Maths Reasoning Papers

It’s not too late to get the best results possible in this year’s SATs – and we can help. Did you know that we have over 350 pages of questions, with answers, to cover the areas of maths that have come up in the last few years Maths SATs Reasoning...

Year 5 Using Degrees

It really helps children understand angle if it is described as a measure of turn. By Year 5 children should already be able to recognise acute and obtuse angles. This is taken further in Year 5 where degrees are introduced. A degree is a unit of measurement for turn and...

Year 4 Decimals

Working with tenths and hundredths are important parts of the Year 4 curriculum and many schools concentrate on this during the first part of the summer term. Children need to explore different ways of making one whole one by combining tenths. For example, six tenths and four tenths will make...

Year 3 Adding Fractions

It is in Year 3 where it is really important to take time to encourage children to understand what is happening when two fractions are added together. The meaning of the numerator and denominator needs to be emphasised to help with this understanding. Pictorial representations are a good way to...