New! Reasoning in Year 2

Reasoning in Year 2Encourage your children to apply their maths skills by heading off to our Reasoning and Problem Solving category. With topics including money, number challenges, investigations and word problems they are a great source of interesting and challenging activities. New this week are three sets aimed at helping...

New! Counting in Year 1

Counting in Year 1At first in Year 1 children will gain confidence with counting, reading and writing numbers to 20. They will be able to identify and represent numbers in different ways including matching groups or pictures of objects to numbers. Our latest set of pages does just this, representing...

Reception: Counting and Matching

Reception: Counting and MatchingAn important part of children’s progress in maths is to learn about one-to-one correspondence. This involves counting a group of objects by matching a number name to each one. This is usually done by touching or pointing to each object in turn. Two further learning targets are...

Year 2 Money

Year 2 MoneyMoney makes much more sense when coins, real or plastic/card are used and our four new sets of worksheets are ideal for getting the coins out. A typical question is,‘Tommy has five 10p coins. He changes each 10p coin for two 5p coins. How many coins does he...

Year 5 Subtraction One Minute Challenges

Year 5 Subtraction One Minute ChallengesSubtracting mentally becomes a whole lot harder in Year 5 as children are expected to deal with larger numbers including multiples of 1,000 and even 10,000. Holding these larger numbers ‘in your head’ can prove very tricky but we have just published 9 activities which...

Year 6 Partitioning Decimals

Year 6 Partitioning DecimalsIn Year 6 children will meet numbers which include 3 decimal places and it is important that they are able to identify the value of each digit. Our latest set of pages looks at how a number such as 0.468 can be written in words, as a...