Understanding Negative Numbers in Year 4

Some real-life data provides the numbers for our latest sets of worksheets on using negative numbers including:• temperatures in Sapporo, Japan• temperatures in Winnipeg, Canada• temperatures in Irkutsk, Russia.Each of these cities has a climate where temperatures dip below zero in winter, often by quite a lot, and are ideal...

Year 1 Mixed Addition and Subtraction

Understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction is an important part of maths work in Year 1. This includes writing the subtraction fact that corresponds to a given addition fact (eg 9 + 3 = 12 implies that 12 – 9 = 3 etc). This understanding is incredibly useful when...

New on-screen activities

We have just published a large number of new on-screen activities which provide endless practice of mental arithmetic skills, including: Year 2 Multiplication Using arrays and completing multiplication sentences for the 2x, 5x and 10x tables are our very latest on-screen activities for Year 2 multiplication. We also introduce doubling...

Year 6 Multiplication Activities

New multiplication activities are now available for multiplication in Year 6, covering:• multiplying 6-digit multiples of 100• doubling multiples of 10,000 by a single digit• doubling decimals (2 decimal places)• multiplying decimal fractions by a single digitAll involving fast accurate mental arithmetic skills, these will be quite a challenge.Go to...

Year 4 Mental Multiplication

Whilst learning multiplication tables is a key part of work in Year 4 there is much more to do to reach all the National Curriculum targets, one of which is:to use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally.This simply means children should use their skills and...

Year 3 Money

Solving problems written in words is an important part of maths and one that we are often asked about. We have a wide selection across all year groups and this week we have published two new sets on money word problems, involving addition and subtraction, suitable for Year 3.A typical...