Focus this week: Year 2 Addition

Huge progress is expected with the understanding of addition during the course of Year 2, with mental addition being the key element. To begin with children will apply their knowledge of addition facts with numbers up to 20 before moving onto larger 2-digit numbers. Our worksheets using number lines and...

Reasoning in Year 1

Reasoning and problem solving is an important part of the Year 1 curriculum, and we pride ourselves on having a collection of really excellent resources. With over 50 sets of pages in Year 1 alone, there is plenty to challenge children's mathematical thinking and encourage them to work in a...

Year 4 Reasoning About Number

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...

Year 3 Measurement

Working with the metric system really takes off in Year 3 (7/8 years old). During this year children are expected to know that:* 1 kilometre = 1,000 metres* 1 metre = 100 centimetres* 1 kilogram = 1 000 grams* 1 litre = 1,000 millilitresThey are also expected to recognise half...

Year 6 Number Games for ‘same day intervention’

Many of the latest developments in teaching maths have originated in the Far East including Singapore and Shanghai, where children make exceptional progress. Part of this approach is ‘same day intervention’. One of the aims of same day intervention is to help those children who have not yet fully grasped...

Year 5 Finding The Difference – Maths Game

Finding the difference between two numbers either side of a whole thousand is the subject of one of our maths games for Year 5 and similar practice can also be found in the Year 5 Subtraction worksheets.Remember all that counting on children have done in earlier years; it comes into...