Subtraction in Year 4

Quick mental subtraction skills are essential and we have plenty of practice! Bar models and place value charts can still play an important part in developing these skills. In Year 3 children will learn to use written methods to subtract two 3-digit numbers. This is extended in Year 4 to...

Subtraction in Year 3

Mental arithmetic should still be a vital part of lessons for children in Year 3 and we would like to highlight some of the main skills children need to have. These include: subtract by adjusting (e.g. taking 19 from a number by subtracting 20 and adding 1) subtract multiples of...

Subtraction in Year 2

Subtraction really takes off in Year 2 as the knowledge and skills gained in Year 1 are extended to larger numbers. These mental skills learned include: subtracting a single digit from a multiple of 10 (e.g. taking 6 from 20) subtracting a single digit from any 2-digit number (e.g. taking...

Subtraction in Year 1

Children make huge progress with subtraction in Year 1. To start with there is a range of language to be understood, using terms such as take away, subtract, how many are left, how much less is, find the difference between, as well as the minus (-) sign. Children will need...

New: English KS2 Grammar and Spelling Papers

We have now published the 2024 KS2 Grammar SAT Papers, which, once again, are quite challenging. It was a very similar paper to last year with two key areas covering over half of the questions: grammatical terms or word classes and punctuation. There were a lot of questions asking, “What...

New: Year 6: Fractions step-by-step tutorials

The work on fractions in Year 6 is about as hard as it gets in primary maths. Once again, understanding equivalence is the key to success with fractions in Year 6. Bar models are a good way to show this and to help with comparing fractions. At first it is...