Free Daily Challenge

Don’t forget about our free maths resource for every day of the year. Perfect for teachers to use as a ‘warm-up’ activity at the start of the lesson. It provides a different set of ten mental arithmetic questions for every single day, which can be used on iPhones, iPads, whiteboards...

Addition in Year 1

Most of the addition work in Year 1 will deal with numbers which have a total of up to 20. At first children will be taught to add two 1-digit numbers, moving on later to adding a 1-digit number and a 2-digit number with totals up to 20. These numbers...

Addition in Year 2

More work will be done to ensure that children have a secure knowledge of addition facts to 20. This will then be used to work with numbers up to 100.The key objectives that will be taught are:Adding numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:a two-digit number and onesa...

Addition in Year 3

Mental addition in Year 3 gets quite a lot harder and it will be important to revise the skills and knowledge learned in Year 2 before moving on to new targets:Three key targets are:Add a 3-digit number and ones eg 400 + 5 =Add a 3-digit number and tens eg...

Addition in Year 4

There are no specific targets for mental addition in Year 4 but that does not mean to say that the topic can be ignored. As children start to add 4-digit numbers using written methods it is vital that the skills and knowledge learned in previous years are continuously reinforced. For...

Addition in Year 5

Just the one target for Year 5 in the National Curriculum:Add numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.This is rather vague, but in Year 5 children are expected to work with numbers with more than 4 digits, which would include numbers up to millions. This is hard and it is important...