Year 1: Money

Year 1: MoneyMoney and coins in Year 1Working with coins in practical contexts is both an effective way to become confident with money, but also helps with addition and subtraction. Undoubtably, one of the best resources in a classroom or at home is a collection of real coins or plastic...

Year 6: On-screen Addition Activities

Year 6: On-screen Addition ActivitiesOver the next few months we will be adding a considerable number of new on-screen activities for Years 5 and 6. These activities are superb as they each provide unlimited practice for one particular key skill; children can play the activities again and again until they...

Year 6 Subtraction

Year 6 SubtractionBy Year 6 children are expected to be able to deal with very large numbers including millions. We have two new sets of pages published this week. One deals with using the formal written method to subtract 7-digit numbers – squared paper is really useful for this. The...

Year 5 Mental Subtraction

Year 5 Mental SubtractionThere are many ways that children can improve their mental arithmetic skills and in Year 5 one of those ways is to subtract by counting back, especially when it requires crossing a thousands boundary. For example, 4230 take away 400 can be done by counting back 100...

Year 3 Counting

Year 3 CountingIt is in Year 3 that children really begin exploring numbers in the hundreds. It is important that they understand that a hundred is made up of ten tens before moving onto a thousand being made up of ten hundreds and counting in hundreds up to one thousand.Base...

Year 2: Reasoning and Problem Solving

Year 2: Reasoning and Problem SolvingThankfully, we have always considered reasoning to be a key part of the maths curriculum and many of our resources in all categories are designed for this. But there is a category in each year group called, ‘Reasoning and Problem Solving’ where you will find...