Later Reception – Starting to double and halve

Knowing how to double and halve numbers is a very useful aid in developing fast mental arithmetic skills in the primary years. At first children need to recognise that to double a number we add the same number to itself, whilst to find half of a number the number needs...

Year 1 Comparing Mass

A great deal of maths in Year 1 is based around practical activities and our latest set of pages is a good illustration of this. Various statements about the mass of objects are made and children need to check to see if the statements are correct. These new pages and...

Year 2 Pictograms

Pictograms are a great way to display data. A pictogram is a chart that uses images to represent a collection of items in a simple way. Each picture could represent one item, but more often than not the picture will represent more than one item. In our new worksheets the...

Year 3 Bar charts

Bar charts are a key feature of teaching data handling in Year 3. They are a simple visual way way of displaying information. It is important that children get to know the terms vertical and horizontal axis and what scale is being used. In Year 3 the numbers on the...

Year 4

Food is the topic of our most recent fractions pages for Year 4. Involving a number of different problems, the solutions to which need explaining, they are a great addition to our large collection of fractions pages for Year 4.With over 60 sets of worksheets on fractions, reflecting the importance...

New Year 6 SATs Arithmetic Practice

Each year we closely study the KS2 Maths SAT Papers to see if any significant changes have been made. The 2022 Paper was very similar to past papers but there were some questions covering different areas of maths or laid out in a different way than before. To enable children...