Year 2 Fractions as Equal Parts

An important part of children’s understanding of fractions is whether a shape has been split into equal or unequal parts. “My half is smaller than your half!” cannot be true as halves have to be equal. In this case there are two parts, but they are not halves. There are...

Year 1 Recognising Halves

Setting work at the right level helps children believe in themselves and encourages them to make progress. This is probably more true when teaching fractions than most other topics. Children need plenty of practice making and identifying halves. An important part of this is to understand that some shapes can...

Prepositions of time

Whilst we are on the subject of time why not take a look at our prepositions of time worksheets. For a child learning about English grammar the rules can sometimes appear to be rather weird and this is as true for using prepositions as any other part of grammar! An...

Time in Year 6

No specific targets Whilst there are no specific targets for Time in Year 6 it’s always good if a theme or topic can be built into maths worksheets. One theme with time at its heart is our Grand Prix racing resource. Times recorded by drivers at real races such as...

Time in Year 5

5M4 Solve problems involving converting between units of time It might seem that by Year 5 most of the work on time will have been covered, but there are still some tricky aspects of time to teach, many of which tend to pop up in the KS2 SATs. Firstly, reinforcing...

Time in Year 4

4M4a read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12-hour clocks 4M4b read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 24-hour clocks 4M4c solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days Once again, we have a great collection of...