Year 3: Understanding Multiplication

Year 3: Understanding MultiplicationIt is always worth recapping concepts that children have come across before and in Year 3, the understanding of making and adding equal groups is important in the context of multiplication. We have just added a new set of worksheets asking children to match representations to times...

Year 2: Subtraction Word Problems

Year 2: Subtraction Word ProblemsThere is a move within schools to try and make maths as relevant as possible, part of which is to include more written problems involving real life situations. Whilst the maths to solve the problems is often quite easy with these types of question, it is...

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...