Year 5: Fractions tutorials

Three more step-by-step guides have just been published, covering the following aspects of fraction work in Year 5: Compare fractions with the same denominator Subtracting fractions with different denominators Multiplying fractions by whole numbers Each tutorial has been carefully written to show exactly how to go about these tasks. With...

Reasoning in Year 6

Reasoning skills are all about applying knowledge and understanding to solve new problems. The key feature of work in Year 6 has to be the KS2 Maths SATs which are held in May. There are three written papers. One is a calculation paper, concentrating on mental and written calculations. The...

Reasoning in Year 5

Many of our resources in all categories involve mathematical reasoning, but we also have a special area, called Reasoning/Problem Solving for each year group which really concentrates on this important aspect of Mathematics. We would like to highlight just three sets of resources for Year 5 Reasoning on: Ordering decimals...

Reasoning in Year 4

No one would argue against knowing number facts and that being able to calculate efficiently is vitally important. But there is much more to maths than this. It is no use being able to calculate accurately if you do not know what calculation to carry out – most of the...

Reasoning in Year 3

We have more requests for word problems/real life problems than any other area of maths and in response we have published a great collection of pages, including a separate Reasoning category . In Year 3 we have subdivided the topics into: Money problems and challenges Number and calculating problems Real...

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...